Set Word Marks

Famous quotes containing the words set, word and/or marks:

    She leet no morsel from hir lippes falle,
    Ne wette hir fyngres in hir sauce depe.
    Wel koude she carie a morsel and wel kepe
    That no drope ne fille upon hire brest.
    In curteisie was set ful muchel hir lest.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    A gentleman’s word is like a touch of a whip to a racehorse.
    Chinese proverb.

    I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience—it also marks the time, which is four o’clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)