"Low-grade" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Foster flamed. "You have no right to say it. He came to California when he was just a young fellow to invest a small inheritance. He doubled it twice in a few years. Then he was persuaded to put his money in an old, low-grade gold mine. The company made improvements, built a flume thirty miles long to bring water to the property for development, but it was hardly finished when a State law was passed prohibiting hydraulic mining. It practically ruined him. He had nothing ...
— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson
... rounds from the Hive to the Eyrie, the Cottage and Pilgrim Hall in all kinds of weather with faithful regularity. Our main dependence for fuel was peat, or turf, as John Cheever called it, and to keep the rooms warm with this low-grade fuel, the fires had to be renewed every five or ...
— My Friends at Brook Farm • John Van Der Zee Sears
... Be a low-grade philosopher, if you can't be high-grade, and find how much true pleasure there is even ...
— Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers • Arthur Brisbane
... you'll head down for the Stewart and the Yukon," Breck objected. "When this gang gets back from my low-grade hydraulic proposition, it ...
— Smoke Bellew • Jack London
... time, as usual," I told him. "Over the top is the only way. I hope it's a high-grade car, because a low-grade car could never get over such ...
— Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... Survey, it is evident that the known supplies of our high-grade phosphate will be practically exhausted in fifty years if our exportation continues to increase at the prevailing rate. After that is gone we may then draw upon our low-grade phosphate deposits, which though probably not inexhaustible are known ...
— The Story of the Soil • Cyril G. Hopkins |
