"Few" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... anticipating. Don John passed down his own line in a light "fregata" giving a few words of exhortation and advice to each ship under his command. If the bastard brother of the King of Spain did not exhibit any large measure of ability as a leader on this occasion, he was perhaps none the less the right man in the right place, as ...
— Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean • E. Hamilton Currey
... his glasses, and opened and closed a few books that lay on his desk, was about to pronounce sentence when the prisoner asked to be ...
— Snow on the Headlight - A Story of the Great Burlington Strike • Cy Warman
... break my neck." From time to time, however, St. Maline glanced at De Loignac, who was too much accustomed to these honors not to be indifferent to them; and he could not but feel the superiority of his calm and modest demeanor, and even would try to imitate, for a few minutes, until the thought would recur again, "I am seen and looked at, and people say, 'Who is that happy gentleman who accompanies the king?'" St. Maline's happiness seemed likely to last for a long time, for the horses, ...
— The Forty-Five Guardsmen • Alexandre Dumas
... be his faults or few, What think ye of the Rakshas who, When threatening clouds of danger rise, Deserts his brother's side and flies? Say, Vanars, who may hope to find True friendship in ...
— The Ramayana • VALMIKI
... In a few moments she reached Mr. Cobb's house, and rang the doorbell. Mr. Cobb was not at home, but when Mrs. Cobb appeared at the door, Marjorie ...
— Marjorie's Busy Days • Carolyn Wells
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