"Guy Fawkes" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Guy Fawkes,* The Chief of the Gunpowder Treason, By William Harrison Ainsworth. The Bloody Tower, etc. Illustrated. 200 ...
— The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2) • Henry William Herbert
... great work—though others, besides your good self, have said—Are you sure that your friend bought twenty copies? My publishers will have to clear up that. Why, they say, under date of yesterday, that they have only sold six copies altogether. And it was out on Guy Fawkes' Day, two ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore
... St. Bartholomews, the "Running Horse" at Leatherhead, wherein John Skelton, the poet laureate of Henry VIII, sang the praises of its landlady, Eleanor Rumming, and several others. The "Seven Stars" has many interesting features and historical associations. Here came Guy Fawkes and concealed himself in "Ye Guy Faux Chamber," as the legend over the door testifies. What strange stories could this old inn tell us! It could tell us of the Flemish weavers who, driven from their own country by religious persecutions ...
— Vanishing England • P. H. Ditchfield
... guffaw. Gedge swung angrily away, and Hosea and I continued our interrupted progress down the High Street. Although I had called his dark menaces drivel, I could not help wondering what it meant. Was he going to guide a German Army to Wellingsford? Was he, a modern Guy Fawkes, plotting to blow up the Town Hall while Mayor and Corporation sat in council? He was not the man to utter purely idle threats. What the dickens was he going to do? Something mean and dirty and underhand. I knew his ways, He was ...
— The Red Planet • William J. Locke |
