"Suppliance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... trifling of his favor, Hold it a fashion, and a toy of blood, A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward not permanent, sweet not lasting, The perfume and the suppliance of ...
— Characteristics of Women - Moral, Poetical, and Historical • Anna Jameson
... soon be gathered to his fathers unless the Great Spirit, in his love for his chosen people, would interfere. To enlist his offices in behalf of their cherished dying leader, the oldest medicine-man, by virtue of seniority, ordered a sacrifice to be made as an offering of adoration and suppliance. ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman
... loveless; and his gentle hands did lead The blind, and lift the weak, and balm the smart Of other wounds than rankled at the dart In his own breast, that gloried thus to bleed. He served the lowliest first—nay, them alone— The most despised that e'er wreaked vain breath In cries of suppliance in the reign whereat Red Guilt sate squat upon her spattered throne.— For these doomed there it was he went to death. God! how the merest man loves ...
— Green Fields and Running Brooks, and Other Poems • James Whitcomb Riley
... in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute. ...
— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett
... and the trifling of his fauours, [Sidenote: favour,] Hold it a fashion and a toy in Bloud; A Violet in the youth of Primy Nature; Froward,[2] not permanent; sweet not lasting The suppliance of a minute? No more.[3] [Sidenote: ...
— The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 • George MacDonald |
