"Excerpt" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... writer's expressed opinion regarding the relative practical value of regulars and volunteers in modern warfare, the following excerpt from the Chicago Record of November 3, ...
— From Yauco to Las Marias • Karl Stephen Herrman
... a l'Etrangere. This contradicts the statement of S. de Lovenjoul, Bookman, that Balzac had a horror of tobacco and is known to have smoked only once, when a cigar given him by Eugene Sue made him very ill. He evidently had this excerpt of a letter in mind: "I have never known what drunkenness was, except from a cigar which Eugene Sue made me smoke against my will, and it was that which enabled me to paint the drunkenness for which you blame me in the Voyage a Java." This visit to George Sand was made five years ...
— Women in the Life of Balzac • Juanita Helm Floyd
... excerpt from the Statement of the Evidence submitted to the jury, on the occasion of the present Admiral Sir Thomas Livingstone of Westquarter, Baronet, being served heir-male of James, first Earl of Calender in 1821, in which I was professionally engaged, shews what became of the issue of William Henry ...
— Trial of Mary Blandy • William Roughead
... dictionary down upon the table, and Angelica was deep in the "ex's" in a moment. Excerpt, she found, was to pick or take out. She passed the dictionary to Diavolo, who studied the definition; but neither of them made a remark. From that day forth, however, they spent every spare moment they had in poring over Latin text-books, until they mastered the ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand |
