"Nas" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Beautie sone fadeth.] to poison other. Beautie in fewe yeres, is not onely blemi- shed, but decaied, and wholie extinguished: it is vncredible, that the Grecians would seeke to bryng home Helena, who had loste the chaste loue toward her housband, beyng caught [Sidenote: Paris Hele- nas louer. Phrigia.] with the adulterous loue of Paris, soonne to Priamus kyng of Troie. The lande of Phrigia was a mightie Region, the people noble, puissaunte in warre: the kyng for nobilitie of actes famous. The Citee of Troie, wherein the kyng helde his Scepter ...
— A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike • Richard Rainolde
... is a fanciful P. N., fit only for a Jinni. As a rule the appellatives of Moslem "genii" end in us (oos), as Tarnus, Huliyanus, the Jewish in—nas, as Jattunas; those of the Tarsa (the "funkers" i.e. Christians) in—dus, as Sidus, and the Hindus in—tus, as Naktus (who entered the service of the Prophet Shays, or Seth, and was converted to the Faith). The King of the Genii ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton
... grosa. Nam creaes a Satanas, vosso perigo. [p] Continuay ter cuydado na fim de vossa jornada & a memoria que o spirito atalayado do peccado caminha sem temer nada pera a gloria. 20 e nos la[c,]os infernaes & nas redes de tristura tenebrosas da carreyra que passaes nam cayaes: sigua ...
— Four Plays of Gil Vicente • Gil Vicente |
