"St. louis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of 15, I quit picking worms off of tobacco plants and began to work in a wholesale house, in St. Louis, at $5 per week—and I had an even start with nearly every man ever connected with the firm. The president of the firm today, now also a bank president and worth a million dollars, was formerly a traveling man; the old vice-president ...
— Tales of the Road • Charles N. Crewdson
... at the head of the opposition, and on May 13, 1648, it and the sovereign courts—the chambre des comptes, the cour des aides, and the grand conseil—signed a bond in union, and the courts decided to send representatives to a conference in the chamber of St. Louis. Like Louis XVI, in 1789, the Queen mother endeavored to prevent the meeting of the deputies. Like Louis, she failed in her object, and the court was forced to yield. The Spaniards had taken Courtrai, and ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 • Various
... 25th of August, no more mystery was made of the King's danger. Nevertheless, he expressly commanded that nothing should be changed in the usual order of this day (the fete of St. Louis), that is to say, that the drums and the hautboys, assembled beneath his windows, should play their accustomed music as soon as he awoke, and that the twenty-four violins should play in the ante-chamber during his dinner. He worked afterwards with the Chancellor, who wrote, under ...
— The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete • Duc de Saint-Simon
... able thinking man of St. Louis, read Bacon's quotation out there, and now, coming to New York, he says to ...
— Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers • Arthur Brisbane
... candidly, Benson," Trueman inquires, "do you think there is a chance of my carrying New York City and St. Louis?" ...
— The Transgressors - Story of a Great Sin • Francis A. Adams
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