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Now seeing the expectation of this attempt frustrated by the causes aforesaid, we thought it meeter to fall with the Isle Ferro, to see if we could find any better fortune; and coming to the island we landed a thousand men in a valley under a high mountain, where we stayed some two or three hours.
He followed him with his eyes, and, turning, said to those about him, "Well, he looks like a man." "Meeter of savage and gentleman on equal terms." During Whitman's Western tour in 1879 or '80, at some point in Kansas, in company with several well-known politicians and government officials, he visited a lot of Indians who were being held as prisoners.
"And what you are offering this innocent child to-day is meeter to be called an idol, a devilish simulacrum, than a doll. Are you not aware, sir, that the custom of New Year's gifts is a foul superstition and a hideous survival of Paganism?" "No, I did not know that," said M. Chanterelle.
"The purple clouds Are putting on their gold and violet, To look the meeter for the sun's bright coming. How hallowed is the hour of morning! Meet Ay! beautifully meet for the pure prayer." Morn broke in the East; or, in the beautiful language of the Son of Fingal, "Sol's yellow hair streamed on the Eastern gale."
But give me the pitcher, Mistress Alice meeter I bear it than you. How now? what jingles at the bottom? have you lifted the pebbles as well as the water?" "I think the woman dropped something into the pitcher," said Alice.
which may be translated: "Ask their advice, ye men of wit And always do the opposite." Another of his favourite sayings against women was the Persian couplet: "Agar nek budi zan u Ray-i-Zan Zan-ra Ma-zan nam budi, na Zan," which may be rendered: "If good were in woman, of course it were meeter To say when we think of her, Beat not, not Beat her."
"But Maugher will be missed," I said. "Yea; and a meeter tale than this will serve," said Hugo. "A false step, a squall at sea anything but this." He pointed to the body. "Wilt thou keep silence?" "If it be thy will," I said. "Assist me, then," said Hugo.
I make no doubt of it," grumbled the old man seating himself. "But 'twere meeter for a maiden to embroider, or to play the virginals than to shoot the bow or run with the hounds as thou dost." "Said I not my Latin well this morning, cousin?" queried Francis. "Doth not my lady mother instruct me in the tent and cross-stitch each day?
And again I say to thee that she was so sweet and yet with a kind of pity in her both of soul and body, and wise withal and quiet, that I feared her, though I loved her; yea and still do: for I deem her better than me, and meeter for thee and thy love than I be. Dost thou know her?" "Yea," said Ralph, "and fair and lovely she is in sooth. Yet hast thou naught to do to fear her.
"Meeter it seems to me, kinsman," said he, "that thou take the heritage of thy father and not king's-thralls; good luck has befallen thee, in that none knows of thy coming, but it misdoubts me that Grim will come upon one or other of us if he may; therefore I would that thou shouldst take the inheritance to thee, and get thee gone to other lands."
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