"Constituted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... recorded student of Shakespeare was a woman. On January 21, 1638,[175] Madam Anne Merrick, in the country, wrote to a friend in London that she could not come to town, but "must content herself with the study of Shakespeare and the 'History of Women,'" which seem to have constituted all her country library. The Judges of King Charles I. reproached him with the study of ...
— Shakespeare's Family • Mrs. C. C. Stopes
... Mercia, which corresponds very roughly to what we call the Midlands. The unbaptized king, Penda, has even achieved a certain picturesqueness through this fact, and through the forays and furious ambitions which constituted the rest of his reputation; so much so that the other day one of those mystics who will believe anything but Christianity proposed to "continue the work of Penda" in Ealing: fortunately not on any large scale. ...
— A Short History of England • G. K. Chesterton
... Max's self-constituted defender, he never again ventured to lay violent hands on the lad, but contented himself with inflicting many ...
— Grandmother Elsie • Martha Finley
... in the bosoms of the inhabitants of those southern climes, have far more powerful effects than any similar emotions on the less sensitively constituted frames of the northern nations. Scarcely had Ada uttered these words, than, casting a glance at her features, as if to ascertain that he heard aright, and was not in some frightful dream, the young Italian fell prostrate on his face before her. Horrified and trembling, she ...
— The Pirate of the Mediterranean - A Tale of the Sea • W.H.G. Kingston
... not of the questioning order of humanity, and I was left a few moments to my own way of expressing relief, and then Aaron locked the tower as usual, and we went away. He, I noticed, put the key in his pocket, instead of delivering it to me, self-constituted its ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 • Various
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