"United states" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the news of Washington's death was received. The founder of the liberty of the United States had ceased to breathe on the ...
— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas
... the United States 1850-1877, 7 vols.; Wilson, Division and Reunion; Stephens, War between the States; Paxson, the Civil War; Rhodes, Lectures on the Civil War; Hart, Romance of the Civil War (supplementary reading for young people). Lives of notable characters in American Statesmen, ...
— Outlines of English and American Literature • William J. Long
... the work had been carried on simply in the interests of science, but Lieut. Brooke's method of sounding acquired a high commercial value, when the enterprise of laying down the telegraph-cable [64] between this country and the United States was undertaken. For it became a matter of immense importance to know, not only the depth of the sea over the whole line along which the cable was to be laid, but the exact nature of the bottom, so as to guard against ...
— Autobiography and Selected Essays • Thomas Henry Huxley
... blankets—put out to air in the sun—seemed to double the density, colour, and importance of the camp. New wagons came with their loads, new life developed; now came a procession of Indians singing their racing songs, for the Indian has a song for every event in life; bodies of United States troops were paraded here and there as a precautionary and impressive measure; the number of Indians assembled, and their excitability, began to cause ...
— The Preacher of Cedar Mountain - A Tale of the Open Country • Ernest Thompson Seton
... memberships in the United States and Canada should be addressed to the Corresponding Secretary at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California. Correspondence concerning editorial matters may be addressed to the General Editors at the same address. Manuscripts of introductions should ...
— Hypochondriasis - A Practical Treatise (1766) • John Hill
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