"Austin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Austin Register, was one of the fleetest and cleanest compositers among the territorial printers. He was employed on ...
— Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul • Frank Moore
... ever heard and after him I would say Symonds, Birrell and Bergson. George Meredith was too much of a prima donna and was very deaf and uninterruptable when I knew him, but he was amazingly good even then. Alfred Austin was a friend of his and had just been made Poet Laureate by Lord Salisbury, when my beloved friend Admiral Maxse took me down to the country to see Meredith for the first time. Feeling more than usually stupid, ...
— Margot Asquith, An Autobiography: Volumes I & II • Margot Asquith
... tell us, that after Austin the monk had been some time in England, that he heard of some of the remains of the British Christians, which he convened to a place, which Cambden, in his Britannia, calls Austin's Oak. Here they met to consult ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... the palaces at Agra and Delhi were, I believe, designed by Austin de Bordeaux, a Frenchman of great talent and merit, in whose ability and integrity the Emperor placed much reliance. He was called by the natives 'Ustan [sic] Isa, Nadir-ul- asr', 'the wonderful of the age'; and, for his office of 'naksha navis', or plan-drawer, ...
— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman
... not read pure joy in this?' he said, 'save that Austin waileth: "Inter delicias semper aliquid saevi nos strangulat." I would be joyful—but that I fear.' Norfolk had come upon an embassy here; then assuredly Cromwell's power waned, or never had this foe of his been sent in this office of honour. ...
— Privy Seal - His Last Venture • Ford Madox Ford
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