Showed

Famous quotes containing the word showed:

    Then the devil led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.
    Bible: New Testament, Luke 4:5.

    Polarized light showed the secret architecture of bodies; and when the second-sight of the mind is opened, now one color or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency, as if a more interior ray had been emitted, disclosing its deep holdings in the frame of things.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    He showed me his bill of fare to tempt me to dine with him; said I, I value not your bill of fare, give me your bill of company.
    Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)