"Supplying" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and was quite at home; it was only bumboating on a large scale. "O, yes; and I know the prices of all these things," replied he; "I have been used to the supplying of ...
— The Poacher - Joseph Rushbrook • Frederick Marryat
... almost destroyed official accountability. The President may be thoroughly convinced that an officer is incapable, dishonest, or unfaithful to the Constitution, but under the law which I have named the utmost he can do is to complain to the Senate and ask the privilege of supplying his place with a better man. If the Senate be regarded as personally or politically hostile to the President, it is natural, and not altogether unreasonable, for the officer to expect that it will ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Andrew Johnson • Andrew Johnson
... same success—the bouquet of flowers, produced instantaneously from a hat; the CORNUCOPIA, supplying a multitude of objects which I distributed, though unable to satisfy the repeated demands made on all sides, and still more by those who had their hands full already; the FIVE-FRANC PIECES, sent across the theater with a crystal box suspended above ...
— The Lock and Key Library/Real Life #2 • Julian Hawthorne
... subject all his companions to suffering, but eager still to reach the fabled Quivira, at length sent all his followers back except thirty horsemen and six foot-soldiers, with whom he continued his journey to the north, the bisons supplying them with ...
— Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III • Charles Morris
... am receiving through the mails, from day to day, up to the present time, other such tales from released convicts. The aim of them is not to get their tellers before the public and win personal sympathy, but to hold up my hands by supplying data—chapter and verse—in support of the assertions I have made. They do it abundantly; the stories bleed and groan before your eyes and ears, and smell to heaven; the bluntest, simplest, most formless ...
— The Subterranean Brotherhood • Julian Hawthorne
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