"Gazetteer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and the Guides started on the 23rd. The gazetteer states that it never rains in Gilgit, but it rained when the detachment started, and continued to pour for two days. The men had marched without tents. Colonel Kelly, the doctor, Leward, and a staff officer ...
— Through Three Campaigns - A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti • G. A. Henty
... down the columns of a gazetteer. There he saw two names, Landshut and Feldberg, that struck him as suggestive. Combined, they made up Landsfeld. Nothing could ...
— The Magnificent Montez - From Courtesan to Convert • Horace Wyndham
... three windows" corresponding to Salcamayhua's description of Manco Ccapac's memorial at his birthplace. The word "Tampu-tocco" does not occur on any map I have been able to consult, nor is it in the exhaustive gazetteer of Peru ...
— Inca Land - Explorations in the Highlands of Peru • Hiram Bingham
... obvious advantages: but it is, after all and at the best, a very primitive device: and, for my part, I consider it the deadliest invention of all for robbing the book of outward resemblance to literature and converting it to the aspect of a gazetteer—a biblion a-biblion, ...
— On The Art of Reading • Arthur Quiller-Couch
... to, and began to drink. "You see," says Mr. Addison, pointing to his writing-table, whereon was a map of the action at Hochstedt, and several other gazettes and pamphlets relating to the battle, "that I, too, am busy about your affairs, Captain. I am engaged as a poetical gazetteer, to say truth, and am writing ...
— The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. • W. M. Thackeray |
