"Superintendent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... its Spring Grove Cemetery, which now encloses five hundred acres of this beautiful, undulating land. The present superintendent has introduced a very simple improvement, which enhances the beauty of the ground tenfold, and might well be universally imitated. He has caused the fences around the lots to be removed, and the boundaries to be marked by sunken stone posts, one at each corner, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 • Various
... sat at the table with Annie in silence. Finally, when the stillness became painful to him, he asked her a few questions about the school superintendent and which teacher she liked best. She answered rather listlessly, because she felt he was not paying much attention. The situation was not improved till Johanna whispered to little Annie, after the second course, that there was something else to come. And surely enough, good Roswitha, who ...
— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various
... piece of stone with some strange device on it," said the Superintendent of Police. "This is it. Do you recognise it?" he added, as ...
— Adventures in Many Lands • Various
... lady, superintendent of a boarding-house, in an airy and cheerful part of Kentish Town, will be happy to receive Lord Melbourne as an inmate, when an ungrateful nation shall have induced his retirement from office. Her establishment ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
... a Cowfold man, tall and thin, superintendent of the Sunday-school, and to a considerable extent independent of village custom. He was not only an auctioneer, but a land surveyor; he also valued furniture, and when there were any houses to be let, drew up agreements, made inventories, and had even ...
— The Revolution in Tanner's Lane • Mark Rutherford
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