"Leading" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... where the great magnolias stood were massed the white wings of angels fanning forth fragrances untold and heavenly, and one by one slowly revealing themselves in the dawn of another day. It seemed as if great and awful spirits must be leading this little being into ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 • Various
... to Soulanges, leading him into a corner, "the Emperor spoke warmly in your praise this morning, and your promotion to ...
— Domestic Peace • Honore de Balzac
... one of the leading men. His cabin of logs stood on an island in the river, and is said to have been the largest in the settlement. It had a log veranda in front, several rooms, a loft, and best of all, a huge fireplace made of sticks and stones laid in clay, in which a pile ...
— Stories of Later American History • Wilbur F. Gordy
... and the wooden bar adjoining it is inserted a strip of copper, c, for leading away the current from the zinc pole of the battery, and between the carbon plates and the wooden bars is inserted a doubled strip of copper, d, forming a connection between the two carbon plates, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 • Various
... than yesterday, two very pungent leading articles in the London daily journals, on the present all-absorbing subject of railway speculation. Both writers are evidently well versed in the details of the novel system; both possess some smattering of political economy, sufficient at least to ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. • Various
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