"Sir walter raleigh" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as the westerns did of the Sabaean breezes. But the allusion to such perfumed winds was a trope common to all the discoverers of unknown lands: the companions of Columbus ascribed them to the region of the Antilles; and Verrazani and Sir Walter Raleigh scented them off the coast of Carolina. Milton borrowed from Diodorus Siculus, lib. iii. c. 46, ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent
... Sir Walter Raleigh's first volume of his History of the World was called in at the King's command, "especially for being too saucy in censuring princes." This fate its wonderful author took greatly to heart, as he had ...
— Books Condemned to be Burnt • James Anson Farrer
... mention among the enterprises of these stirring and romantic times are the undertakings of Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618). Several expeditions were sent out by him for the purpose of making explorations and forming settlements in the New World. One of these, which explored the central coasts of North America, ...
— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers
... you of two which so do," said Aubrey in a nettled fashion—"my Lord of Northumberland and Sir Walter Raleigh: and you'll not call them ...
— It Might Have Been - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot • Emily Sarah Holt
... Ordinary apposition, explanatory of some noun or its equivalent: "Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, 'I know that he can toil terribly,' is ...
— An English Grammar • W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell
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