"Christopher" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... entertaining work. 'Jerry Abershaw' should be good, eh? I love writing boys' books. This first is only an experiment; wait till you see what I can make 'em with my hand in. I'll be the Harrison Ainsworth of the future; and a chalk better by St. Christopher; or at least as good. You'll see that even ...
— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... states. With these, towards the end of February; Louis crossed the Rhine in a heavy snow-storm, and bent his course towards Maestricht. All the three brothers of the Prince accompanied this little army, besides Duke Christopher, son of ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... go well with 4 horses, and be accustomed to marketing; and for this when hired by the year he received 5 marks, and perhaps half a crown as earnest money. The next man got 50s., the next 46s. 6d., the fourth 35s. 'Christopher Pearson had the first year he dwelt here L3 5s. 0d. wages per annum and 5s. to a God's penny (earnest money); next year he had L4 wages, and he was both a good seedsman,' before the invention of drills a very valuable qualification, ...
— A Short History of English Agriculture • W. H. R. Curtler
... reflects the influence of the ruined temples on the Nile; but it is a more difficult feat, even for a German professor, to prove the archaic structure of old Aryavarta a foreshadowing of the genius of the late lamented Sir Christopher Wren! The outcome of this paleographic spoliation is that there is not a tittle left for India to call her own. Even medicine is due to the same Hellenic influence. We are told—this once by Roth—that "only a comparison of the principles of Indian ...
— Five Years Of Theosophy • Various
... the northern road, was a relic of colonial days. The stiff white edifice with its pointed steeple, called in irreverent modern phrase the "Congo" church, claimed an equal antiquity; but it had been so often repaired and "improved" to suit the taste of various epochs, that the traces of Sir Christopher Wren in its architecture were quite confused by the admixture of what one might describe as ...
— Days Off - And Other Digressions • Henry Van Dyke
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