“one of the sisters started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good.”
Eva Ibbotson (1925–2010) British children's writer
Source: Island of the Aunts
'The History of England (1791)
Works, History of England
“one of the sisters started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good.”
Eva Ibbotson (1925–2010) British children's writer
Source: Island of the Aunts
John Barwa (1955) Roman Catholic archbishop
Jubilee for the Marian Shrine in Orissa. Christians: "We entrust our suffering to Mary" http://www.fides.org/en/news/65678-ASIA_INDIA_Jubilee_for_the_Marian_Shrine_in_Orissa_Christians_We_entrust_our_suffering_to_Mary (6 March 2019)
“Whatever is praised everywhere else yields to Spain alone. It is she that spawns the toughest soldiers, the most experienced generals, the most eloquent orators, the most famous poets; she is the mother of judges—and the mother of Emperors. She gave the Empire the great Trajan, and then Hadrian; to her the Empire is indebted for you [Theodosius I].”
Dum Hispaniae uni quidquid ubique laudatur adsurgat. Haec durissimos milites, haec experientissimos duces, haec facundissimos oratores, haec clarissimos uates parit, haec iudicum mater haec principum est. Haec Traianum illum, haec deinceps Hadrianum misit imperio; huic te debet imperium.
"Panegyric of Theodosius" (389), as recorded in the Panegyrici Latini. Translation from C. E. V. Nixon and Barbara Saylor Rodgers, In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: The Panegyrici Latini (1994), p. 452 https://books.google.com/books?id=0WlC_UtU8M4C&pg=PA452&dq=%22It+is+she+that+spawns+the+toughest+soldiers%22&hl=en&sa=X#v=onepage&q=%22It%20is%20she%20that%20spawns%20the%20toughest%20soldiers%22&f=false, original Latin at p. 649 https://books.google.com/books?id=0WlC_UtU8M4C&pg=PA649&dq=%22It+is+she+that+spawns+the+toughest+soldiers%22&hl=en&sa=X#v=onepage&q=%22Haec%20durissimos%20milites%22&f=false.
James Stephens (1882–1950) Irish writer
"A Glass of Beer" (1918), line 9, in Collected Poems (London: Macmillan, 1954) p. 185.
“"You're pining."
"Look who's talking. 'Oh, I love her. Oh, she's my sister. Oh why, why, why--'"”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Jace Herondale and Alec Lightwood, pg. 33
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)