Besides this, the hollow promises of the witches had filled him with false confidence, and he remembered the sayings of the spirits, that none of woman born was to hurt him, and that he was never to be vanquished till Birnam wood should come to Dunsinane, which he thought could never be.

You quote against them Bacon's saying, that they are barren virgins; that no physical fact was ever discovered or explained by them.

We heard the well-known sayings very often those days: "La Republique sera conservatrice ou elle ne sera pas" and "La Republique sans Republicains," attributed to M. Thiers and Marshal MacMahon.

There's always jolly music, pretty dresses, pretty girlsyou don't mind my saying so, dear, do you?' 'No, indeed.

The remarks of the rector recall the saying of Lactantius, "literati non habent fidem."

Don't you know the saying, 'Rain before seven, quit before eleven?'

So far as the evidence afforded by the superficial crust of the earth goes, the modern geologist can, ex animo, repeat the saying of Hutton, "We find no vestige of a beginningno prospect of an end."

If you will forgive my saying so, I cannot believe that either group is necessarily better or more important than the other.

In a splenetick, sarcastical, or jocular frame, however, he would sometimes utter a pointed saying of that nature.

It's a bit selfish, dear, if you'll excuse my saying so.

I mentioned Shenstone's saying of Pope, that he had the art of condensing sense more than any body.

And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them; but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart: and Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man."Luke

Plato records a saying of Socrates that the dog is a true philosopher because philosophy is love of knowledge, and a dog, while growling at strangers, always welcomes the friends that he knows.

It brings back to our minds the saying of the old Hanseatic towns: 'England, thou land of shame, Why hast thou, Satansland, The name of Angel-land?' "No sacrifice and no effort will be too great, for us to drag her from her imagined height into the dust.

In line 18 saws means "sayings" (compare the phrase "an old saw"); modern means "moderate," "commonplace"; instances means what we mean by it today, "examples," "illustrations."

"'Tis an old saying, I remember I read it in Cato's 'Pueriles' that Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator," &c.Collier.

To have a real lady with the girls, that is what I would give anything for; and as she wants taking care of, poor dear, and petting, and an 'ome" Mary, who would not hear any more, got up hastily, and took the hand of her new protectress, and kissed her, partly out of gratitude and kindness, partly to stop her mouth, and prevent the saying of something which it might have been still more difficult to support.

By reason of the axiom, "They lend but to the rich," they attributed to him all the satirical sayings which are heard in the villages and among the tribes of Algeria, of which, perhaps, he did pronounce some.

All the time I sat with Mrs. Bargrave, which was some hours, she recollected fresh sayings of Mrs. Veal.

O Master Parson, write down this sweet saying of her in Grim's commendations.

In a Magazine I found a saying of Dr. Johnson's, something to this purpose; that the happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

And when she came down the hill, about the springing of the day, anon the spies of the Assyrians took her saying: Whence comest thou, or whither goest thou?

Goldsmith, I remember, to retaliate for many a severe defeat which he has suffered from him, applied to him a lively saying in one of Cibber's comedies, which puts this part of his character in a strong light.

I guess you believe the saying that the only good Indian is a dead Indian. GRANDMOTHER: I dunno.

I must borrow that saying of the eloquent Messala Corvinus, I am ashamed of my authority.