"Country" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... patent medicines for several years, and had been to one of the best sanitariums in this country, but was not healed, although I received some benefit, for which I shall always feel grateful, for I know the physicians did all they could for me. I sometimes thought I had exhausted all remedies, but did not give up, for I felt there must be something ...
— Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures • Mary Baker Eddy
... Dick, half-lifting his hat as he stood by the corpse, "I can respect a man who did a brave deed and died for his country." ...
— Fort Amity • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... live, in quest of higher ideals by which to benefit the race; he, one of the noblest champions of humanity, a hero, a saint, a martyr in this cause has never had his resurrection yet—a forgotten brave. And yet, he has rendered greater service to his country, and to the world at large, than all the great names of his time. He rediscovered Love, the principle of Christ. He reinstalled feeling, the spring of life which had been obliterated in the reign of scholasticism. He re-opened ...
— The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises • Richard Rolle of Hampole
... things. For it's no great matter, really: he'll be all right when he's married, as mamma says; and reformed rakes make the best husbands, EVERYBODY knows. I only wish he were not so ugly—THAT'S all I think about: but then there's no choice here in the country; and papa WILL NOT let us go ...
— Agnes Grey • Anne Bronte
... come of this," said he. "Those fellows will go talking about us in their own country; and if it gets to the ears of the governors or commanding-officers that we have settled down on their territory, they will be sending ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 • Various
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