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More "Rase" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tew rase hell," grinned Svenson, growling with delight as he swung the big club with which he had armed himself and tapped the hunting knife in his belt. "Don't Ay toll you dat Ay ben gude smart mans? Veil, by golly, ...
— Every Man for Himself • Hopkins Moorhouse
... Thomas's altar within the monastery, at which time he rased out with his knife the said name out of the canon." The abbot told him to "take a pen and strike or cross him out." The saucy monk said those were not the orders. They were to rase him out. "Well, well," the abbot said, "it will come again one day." "Come again, will it?" was the answer. "If it do, then we will put him in again; but I trust I shall never see that day." The mild abbot could remonstrate, but could not any more command; and ...
— Froude's Essays in Literature and History - With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc • James Froude
... the house of the 2nd Chief where Concluded to Sleep. this man was pore nothing to eat but dried fish, and no wood to burn. altho the night was Cold they Could not rase as much wood as ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al
... women, and children—are equally their enemies, for they know that the guilt of war is always confined to a few persons and that the many are their friends. And for all these reasons they will be unwilling to waste their lands and rase their houses; their enmity to them will only last until the many innocent sufferers have compelled the guilty few to ...
— The Republic • Plato
... is a-morning our early wine; Whenas Love unveileth the amourist's heart, * And by rending the veil he displays his sign, With a draught so pure, so dear, so bright, * As in hand of Moons[FN338] the Sun's sheeny shine O' nights it cometh with joy to 'rase * The hoar of sorrow by ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton
... ken what ye mean by that; but I'm thinkin' it was muckle the same kin' o' faith 'at the prodigal had; for they baith rase ...
— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald
... joined up to "Humbug Alley," the main communication trench of the left sector. The front line which was in none too good order, was known mainly as to its position with regard to the remnants of woods in its neighbourhood, "Bois de Dix-huit" opposite the right, "Bois Rase" in the centre, and "Bois Hugo" on the left. All the forward trenches bore names beginning with H, two of which were "Heaven" and "Hell," but the former was not quite the Paradise one might expect from its name. Such dug-outs ...
— The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 - History of the 1/8th Battalion • W.C.C. Weetman
... so much my sense of shame is above my growing tenderness, that I could wish you would be so generous to think no more of what you seem to pursue with such earnestness and haste. But lest I should retain any sort of former love for Philander, whom I am impatient to rase wholly from my soul, I grant you all you ask, provided you will be discreet in the management: Antonet therefore shall only be trusted with the secret; the outward gate you shall find at twelve only shut ...
— Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister • Aphra Behn
... doit a maints particuliers La somme de dix mil une livre une obole, Pour l'avoir sans relache un an sur sa parole Habille, voiture, chauffe, chausse, gante, Alimente, rase, desaltere, porte. ...
— Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic • Henri Bergson
... Alison; "the honest man thought it was best to gang and sit by the chimley when the reek rase—a vex'd man he's been and a feared—but ye ken the Laird as weel as ...
— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude^, pitch, precipitate. overthrow, overturn, overset^; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down; raze, raze to the ground, rase to the ground^; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears. sit, sit down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy, curtsy; bob, duck, dip, kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head, bow the head; cower; recline &c (be horizontal) 213. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... of a learned church May build a fabric, fair with moral beauty; But it would seem that the strong hand of God Can, only, 'rase the devil from ...
— The Pioneers • James Fenimore Cooper
... excitedly. "Here comes your rase chap, old wooden pegs. I'd nearly forgotten him. ...
— The Lost Middy - Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap • George Manville Fenn
... woman's seed, and now confirmest the same In the seed of me. Forsooth great is thy goodness. I cannot perceive but that thy mercy is endless. To such as fear thee, in every generation, For it endureth without abbreviation. This have I printed in deep consideration, No worldly matter can rase it out of mind. For once it will be the final restoration Of Adam and Eve, and other that hath sinned; Yea, the sure health and race of mankind. Help have the faithful thereof, though they be infect; They, condemnation, where as it is reject. Merciful Maker, my crabbed voice direct, That it ...
— Everyman and Other Old Religious Plays, with an Introduction • Anonymous
... sufficient men in the village, but zu Pfeiffer's spies had afforded him practically correct information. He gave the headman the right to send a number of messengers, each accompanied by a soldier, to the neighbouring villages and promised him fifty lashes and to rase his village, if the paddlers ...
— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle
... sois [80] jamais separe—pas separe eternellement, he repeats, or makes that strange sort of MS. amulet, of which his sister tells us, repeat for him. Cast me not away from Thy presence; and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me. It is table rase he is trying to make of himself, that He might reign there absolutely alone, who, however, as he was bound to think, had made and blest all those things he declined to accept. Deeper and deeper, then, he retreated ...
— Miscellaneous Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater
... permanent as it should be - sacred and unalterable in the hands of those where the community has placed it, depends entirely upon the breath of a minister, or of any man: But it is to be feared from this as well as other more recent instances, that there is a design to rase the foundations of the constitutions of these colonies, and place them upon this precarious and sandy foundation. - I have seen a letter from the agent of this province to the government here, dated so ...
— The Writings of Samuel Adams, volume II (1770 - 1773) - collected and edited by Harry Alonso Cushing • Samuel Adams
... dass ich nicht gegen den rechten rase. Der Vater muss voran! Er muss schon in jener Welt sein, wenn der Geist seiner Tochter unter tausend Seufzern ihm nachzieht— (Sie geht mit einem Dolche, den sie aus dem Busen reisst, auf ihn los). Drum ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas
... out plainly, And cloke no cause for ill nor gude; The other, answering him as vainly, Began to reckon kin and blude. He rase, and raxed him, where he stude, And bade him match him with his marrows: Then Tynedale heard them reason rude, And they loot off ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 • Various
... rase she up And slowly she came nigh him, And when she drew the curtain by— "Young man, I ...
— The Broad Highway • Jeffery Farnol
... les toise et les mesure, Les meprise en sachant qu'il en est ecrase, Soumet son ame au poids de la matiere impure Et se sent mort ainsi que son vaisseau rase. —A de certains moments, l'ame est sans resistance; Mais le penseur s'isole et n'attend d'assistance Que de la forte ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... and aye she grat, till she wearied. At last she rase and gaed awa', she kedna whaur till. On she wandered till she came to a great hill o' glass, that she tried a' she could to climb, bat wasna able. Round the bottom o' the hill she gaed, sabbing and seeking a passage owre, till at last she came to a smith's house; and ...
— The Blue Fairy Book • Various
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