"Selvedge" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... briefer voyage thither. The voyage is the same; yesterday, to-day and forever it remains unchanged. The voyager may judge if I am right when I say that the Pacific coast, or the coast of California, Oregon and Washington, is the selvage side of the American continent. I believe this is evidenced in the well-rounded lines of the shore; the smooth meadow-lands that not infrequently lie next the sea, and the comparatively few island-fragments that are discoverable ...
— In the Footprints of the Padres • Charles Warren Stoddard
... to keep hold of the effects to which this line of poor wretches was but the selvage; "it's fine! But I ...
— New Worlds For Old - A Plain Account of Modern Socialism • Herbert George Wells |
