Sir T. North

Cited as Sir T. North. — 19 quotations

If any . . . based his pike.

Most part of this noble lineage carried upon their body for a natural birthmark, . . . a snake.

That was the full time they used to wear blacks for the death of their fathers.

Embroidered coverlets or counterpoints of purple silk.

Other detracters and malicious writers.

Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [the women].

Birds which do give a happy divination of things to come.

The physician was so graveled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say.

They might be ashamed, for lack of courage, to suffer the Lacedæmonians to hold their noses to the grindstone.

Them that were left alive being infected with this disease.

He . . . did inure them to speak little.

He became . . . white as a kercher.

Therein it seemeth he [Alexander] hath latticed up Caesar.

Inroads and plunders of the Saracens.

His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs.

Moral philosophy was his chiefest end; for the rational, the natural, and mathematics . . . were but simple pastimes in comparison of the other.

The burying of the dead . . . hath always been had in an extraordinary recommendation amongst the ancient.

They say also that the manner of making the shed of newwedded wives' hair with the iron head of a javelin came up then likewise.

A narrow, straight path by the water's side, very unhandsome for an army to pass that way, though they found not a man to keep the passage.