"Allen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... order to receive the finishing-touches to my education, I was removed to old Allen's well-known Mathematical Academy in ...
— Hurricane Hurry • W.H.G. Kingston
... US: chief of mission: the Ambassador to the Philippines is accredited to Palau; Charge d'Affaires Allen E. NUGENT ...
— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... so busy and I promised to pay Allen at the sugar mill a visit," Dick replied. "Besides, I had an excuse for the trip. We're short of some engine stores that I dare say you can let ...
— Brandon of the Engineers • Harold Bindloss
... Allen says, 'Leave out the explanations, make it brief and dramatic, and let the characters tell the story'," interrupted Jo, turning ...
— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott
... parenthesis. It was equally distinctive of his peculiarities as a Reader, that the especial charm of his drollery was often conveyed by the merest aside. Thus it was with him in reference to Mrs. Raddle's "confounded little bill," when—in between Ben Allen's inquiry, "How long has it been running?" and Bob Sawyer's reply, "Only about a quarter and a month or so"—the Reader parenthetically remarked, with a philosophic air, "A bill, by the way, is the most extraordinary locomotive engine that the genius ...
— Charles Dickens as a Reader • Charles Kent
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