"Reminiscent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... certain characteristic phases of architectural art in the reigns of Francis I and Henri II. The reign of Charles IX was only another phase of that long reign of Catherine de Medici, and architectural influences continued to follow along the same reminiscent Italian lines, particularly with reference to such edifices as the Medici herself caused to be built. In the dedication of Philibert Delorme's "Traite d'Architecture" he expressed himself thus with ...
— Royal Palaces and Parks of France • Milburg Francisco Mansfield
... is loved best who is loved last; and when, after those months of delirious dissipation in Paris, which all too soon were to be so exorbitantly paid for by years of suffering, Heine met Mathilde, there is no doubt at all that Heine met his wife. His reminiscent fancy might sentimentalize about his lost Amalie, but no one can read his letters, not so much to, as about, Mathilde without realizing that he came as near to loving her as a man of his temperament can come near to ...
— Old Love Stories Retold • Richard Le Gallienne
... notice of a smock-frocked rustic employed in foddering the cattle,—a rustic whose legs and accent were to me exclusively reminiscent of the pleasant roads and lanes of cheery Somersetshire,—Farmer informed me that he was a newish importation, having made his appearance about there early in the previous winter. While snow, of such quality and in such quantity as they have it in that region, was yet a novelty to ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various
... reminiscent ring as if it harked back to a time when three ample meals were a mirage of ...
— Steve and the Steam Engine • Sara Ware Bassett
... broke away from it, and came back to the ballad in the stanza, "If he had had but ten men more," which differs but slightly from stanza ii. of Scott's ballad. That this is so, and that, later, Satchells is again reminiscent of a ballad, is no ...
— Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy • Andrew Lang
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