"Ci" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... place, dans la Societe des Jacobins, pres David et Michot. Celui-ci disait a l'autre: Ah! la belle tragedie que celle de Timoleon; c'est un chef d'oeuvre; demande a Vilate. Je ne pus me defendre de rendre une justice eclatante... au genie de l'auteur. Le peintre (David)... nous repond: Chenier une belle tragedie! c'est impossible. Son ame a-t-elle jamais ...
— The French Revolution - A Short History • R. M. Johnston
... Overtook the roebuck running, dragged the panther from his lair. Loved was he by many a maiden; many a dark eye glanced in vain; Many a heart with sighs was laden for the love it could not gain. So they called the brave "Ska Capa;"[CI] but the fairest of the band— Moon-faced, meek Anpetu-Sapa—won the ...
— The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems • H. L. Gordon
... he 'd be waihin' Out de linin' of his soul, Try 'n' ca'ci'late an' fashion How he 'd git his wintah coal; An' I b'lieve he got his jedgement Jes' so tuckahed out an' thinned Dat he t'ought a robin's whistle Was de ...
— The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... for the future? Here is his answer, in a psalm which has been with considerable appropriateness regarded as a kind of manifesto of the principles which he intended should characterize his reign (Psa. ci.): "I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes." For himself, he begins his reign with noble self-restraint, not meaning to make it a region of indulgence, but feeling that there is a law ...
— The Life of David - As Reflected in His Psalms • Alexander Maclaren
... the bishop, overtaking the ci-devant warden; 'I wanted to say one word about the hospital. You know, of course, that it ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
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