"23rd" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... constructed of sails, and on September 23rd Pike spoke to the Sioux Indians there assembled concerning the transfer of Louisiana, the futility of their wars with the Chippewas, and the evils of rum. He asked them to cede to the United States lands ...
— Old Fort Snelling - 1819-1858 • Marcus L. Hansen
... Cook's Journal, but one of the logs of the Endeavour, extant, that of Mr. Green the astronomer, was kept in this time, and the events of say Thursday, June 24th, of Cook's Journal, are therein given as happening on Wednesday, June 23rd. These differences of reckoning have been a fertile source of confusion in dates ...
— Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World • James Cook
... latter we had chosen the night of May 23rd. It was a moonless night, and the Passage Corneille, from whence I was to operate, was most usefully dark. Sarah Goldberg had, according to convention, left the postern gate on the latch, and at ten o'clock precisely I made my way up the cul-de-sac and cautiously turned the ...
— Castles in the Air • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... to fetch him, now I think of it. It's this way. He leaves Delhi on the 23rd for Bombay. That means he'll be running through Ajmir about the night ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... On the 23rd we left Bamee[a]n and proceeded over the Ir[a]k pass to Oorgundee, where we arrived on the 28th. No event occurred nor any thing worth mentioning, unless it be the "naivete" of an old man, who, observing ...
— A Peep into Toorkisthhan • Rollo Burslem
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