"Stound" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... go hence: It is time we were in the forest an hour since. Now the devil stop that same yalling throat (think I) Somewhiles: for from the call[257] farewell all wink of eye! Begin he once to call, I sleep no more that stound, Though half an hour's sleep were worth ten thousand pound. Anon, when I come in, and bid him good morrow: Ah sir, up at last? the devil give thee sorrow! Now the devil break thy neck (think I by ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. II • Robert Dodsley
... head. Against the hero's shield in vain, The arrow-storm sends forth its rain. The javelins and spear-thrusts fail To pierce his coat of ringed mail. The King stands on the blood-stained deck; Trampling on many a foeman's neck; And high above the dinning stound Of helm and axe, and ringing sound Of blade, and shield, and raven's cry Is heard ...
— Erling the Bold • R.M. Ballantyne
... Into this vertuous place have made intrusion: But hither am I come (believe me fair) To seek you out, of whose great good the air Is full, and strongly labours, whilst the sound Breaks against Heaven, and drives into a stound The amazed Shepherd, that such vertue can Be resident in ...
— The Faithful Shepherdess - The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Vol. 2 of 10). • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
... gars the gear Is gone where glint the pawky een. And aye the stound is birkin lear Where sconnered yowies wheepen yestreen. The creeshie rax wi' skelpin' kaes Nae mair the howdie bicker whangs, Nor weanies in their wee bit claes Glour light as lammies ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... sticks fast, He stands still like a man, and shrinkes not once therefore, But strikes him with his owne dart then which shot at him before. Then presse they on, and shake their darts on euery side, Which, in our flesh doth light, and make both deadly wounds and wide. The gunner in that stound with two darts strooke at last, Shrinks not yet though the double wound with streames of bloud out brast. And eke the maisters mate, of stomacke bolde and stout, For all his wound receiu'd of late, yet stirred not a foot. But kept his standing still, till that a deathful dart Did strike him ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, v5 - Central and Southern Europe • Richard Hakluyt
... an ache and a stound to you, lass," Sim would say in a whimper. "It'll be well for you, Rotha, when you give me my last top-sark and take me to the kirkyard yonder," the little man would ...
— The Shadow of a Crime - A Cumbrian Romance • Hall Caine
... and me. Ich will it helpen as I can, And segge it to my kinswoman." The porter anon it gan forth bring, With the pel, and with the ring. The abbesse let clepe a priest anon, And let it christen in function. And for it was in an ash y-found, She cleped it Frain in that stound. The name[56] of the ash is a frain, After the language of Bretayn; Forthy[57] Le Frain men clepeth this lay, More than ash, in each country. This Frain thriv'd from year to year; The abbess niece men ween'd it were. The abbess her gan teach, and beld.[58] ...
— The Lay of Marie • Matilda Betham
... I may here remark, is the German Stunde, our old "Stound," somewhat indefinite but meaning to the good Moslem the spaces between prayer times. The classical terms, Al-Zuha (undurn-hour, or before noon) and Maghribset of sun, become in Badawi speech Al-Ghaylahsiesta-time and Ghaybat ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... when some suddaine extasie, seisth the nature of a sicklie man, When hee's discernd to swoune, straite by and by folke by his helpe confusedly haue ran, And seeking with their art to fetch him backe: so many throng, that he the ayre doth lacke, so Mirrha's thoughts confusedly did stound her. some adding c[o]fort, whilst the rest ...
— Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) • Dunstan Gale |
