"Asterisk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... firm knew in whose name the agreement should be made. Then came the first intimation of the identity of the author: the friend wrote that if the publishers would look in the right-hand corner of the first page of the manuscript they would find there the author's name. Search finally revealed an asterisk. The author of the novel (Valentino) was William ...
— The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward William Bok (1863-1930)
... to question the Duchess about a Miss Asterisk, with whom this tale will have nothing to do, but who, from the little which Lady Janet had seen of her, might possess all the requisites that fastidious correspondent would exact for the wife of ...
— The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... a chronological list of all contributions (so far as at present known) to magazines, periodicals, etc., the date given being that of the first publication only. Those marked with an asterisk (*) were published anonymously. Many of the poems have been included in anthologies of modern verse, but no attempt has been made to give particulars of such reprints in ...
— Miscellanies • Oscar Wilde
... u (inverted letter shown with asterisk): draperie of double Achan*this I behelde Leu*cothoe inclau*strede and compassede about and lose my lou*e courteou*s young women haue you* not seene it circulatin*g iustly most pretiou*s vessell The squ*are base court skinnes, ...
— Hypnerotomachia - The Strife of Loue in a Dreame • Francesco Colonna
... shown with an asterisk alongside their number were printed with an asterisk in the original text; all ...
— The Discovery of a World in the Moone • John Wilkins
... 2 and 6 of verses 1, 2, and 3; and in measure 6 of verse 4, is shown a group of three notes with an asterisk above. These groups, as shown in the notation, are B, A, G; but in measure 2 of verse 4, the corresponding group is C, B, A. In those measures marked *, the singers are very plainly striving to reach the tones C, B, A. There is that quality of tension in the voices with the accompanying forcing ...
— The Tinguian - Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe • Fay-Cooper Cole
... desirable to leave more room between the rows in case of spreading plants like the verbena. Most of them, however, need little if any more space between the rows than is indicated by the figures given. In the list those plants that bear free clipping are marked with an asterisk (A): ...
— Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) • L. H. Bailey
... figure! At some station lonely We see this sign upon the card: [Footnote Asterisk: Train ...
— Tobogganing On Parnassus • Franklin P. Adams
... Ministers and their offices. In the third column are indicated the same offices as held under the late Liberal Administration. The eight members of the Opposition included in the new Cabinet are indicated by an asterisk: ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... Soudan; he now included my maarif, which he had never met with, and which he agreed was a new species. In the following list, which is an exact copy of that which he had arranged, those marked with an asterisk are species that ...
— The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia • Samuel W. Baker |
