Away flew the wire strands length after length -- ocean was indeed insatiable -- 'More!' and 'More!' cried the daughter of horseleech from the black night of waters, and still the rope descended.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition] Reference

"The horseleech has two daughters, crying, Give! give!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference

The horseleech hath two daughters that say: Bring, bring.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference

Would hang on their ears like a horseleech, till I were full, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marshall Grossman: FISA and the Caterpillars of the State] Reference

What cared they, on the one hand (and this was the popular sentiment), for the hypocritical crusade undertaken for purposes of aggrandisement; or, on the other, what sympathy could they have with the moribund State which had ever been to them as the daughters of the horseleech, and whose atrocities were identical with those that were perpetrated in the days when Huns and Vandals devastated their own fair plains?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roumania Past and Present] Reference

Mr. Pabsby was indeed a horseleech of the severest kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralph the Heir] Reference

QUOTATION: The horseleech hath two daughters, crying, Give, give.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quotations] Reference

The horseleech-cry so strong so high her heav’enward Psalms and Hymns among.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi] Reference

Nay, at this moment it stalks into this Senate, crying, like the daughters of the horseleech, "Give! give.".    From Wordnik.com.  [American Eloquence, Volume 2 Studies In American Political History (1896)] Reference

This I confess was caused by my haste, the press hourly craving, with the daughter of the horseleech, Give, give.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers.] Reference

Here is expressed the extremity of necessitous extortions, figured in the ancient fable of the full and the hungry horseleech.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Advancement of Learning] Reference

It is lost labour to seek to feed and fill those who have a greedy horseleech of cavilling in their heart, crying, Give, give.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers.] Reference

This (one would think) was enough to satiate the most blood-thirsty; but the horseleech of persecution still cries, "Give, give.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)] Reference

Prince d'Artois has withal the strangest horseleech: a moonstruck, much-enduring individual, of Neuchatel in Switzerland, -- named Jean Paul Marat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution] Reference

They never know when they have enough, but the more they have the more they would have; and, like the daughters of the horseleech, they cry, Give, give.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference

The railroad and telegraph corporations know that, in putting on "all that the traffic will bear," they are taking from this country more than the people can stand; yet their only answer is that of the horseleech.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South] Reference

Page 305 causes he was seldom an unwelcome visitant; and not being fastidious on the score of personal entertainment, he was well content to get his supper in the kitchen, a dram, -- for which he had the craving of the daughter of the horseleech, -- and the privilege of a corner in the hay-loft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.] Reference

A horseleech, till I were full, and then drop off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Duchess of Malfi] Reference

The horseleech-cry so strong so high.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi] Reference

Sally was a daughter of the horseleech!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference

The horseleech.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference

The horseleech hath two daughters, crying, Give, give.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference

295The horseleech hath two daughters, crying, Give, give.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quotations] Reference

10003The horseleech hath two daughters, crying, Give, give.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quotations] Reference