"Lysander" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Alexander, And some of Hercules, Of Hector and Lysander, And such great names as these. But of all ...
— The Story of the Amulet • E. Nesbit
... of book-collectors, a scandal, such as it would be among a hunting set to hint that a man had killed a fox. In the dialogues, not always the most entertaining, of Dibdin's Bibliomania, there is this short passage: "'I will frankly confess,' rejoined Lysander, 'that I am an arrant bibliomaniac—that I love books dearly—that the very sight, touch, and mere perusal——' 'Hold, my friend,' again exclaimed Philemon; 'you have renounced your profession—you talk of reading books—do ...
— The Book-Hunter - A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author • John Hill Burton
... silky curls. His real name he told her was Lysander. Anything that the Dean had the naming of received the benediction of ancient Greece, but Sandy, in his puppyhood, had managed to ...
— Kit of Greenacre Farm • Izola Forrester
... and so there was still some poetical element remaining in the midst of that unfortunate nomenclature. The counties, too, as a rule, took Indian names, so that the town of Homer, with its neighbors, Tully, Pompey, Fabius, Lysander, and the rest, were embedded in the county of Onondaga, in the neighborhood of lakes Otisco and Skaneateles, and of the rivers ...
— Volume I • Andrew Dickson White
... the distant mob, the old tune of the Old Line shrilled and rattled: - Some talk of Alexander, And some of Hercules; Of Hector and Lysander, And ...
— This is "Part II" of Soldiers Three, we don't have "Part I" • Rudyard Kipling |
