"Kosciusko" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Snowy River, up by Kosciusko's side, Where the hills are twice as steep and twice as rough, Where a horse's hoofs strike firelight from the flint stones every stride, The man that holds his own is good enough. And the Snowy River riders on the mountains make their home, ...
— The Man from Snowy River • Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson
... they read the name of the great "Kosciusko;" and this was his garden, where he used to sit for many hours in the day reading his book, or admiring the glorious works of God spread before him. The children looked with love and admiration upon the name and place where the good and brave Pole had been; and the boys audibly hoped that they ...
— The Fairy Nightcaps • Frances Elizabeth Barrow
... heard the news in his rocky fastness, miscalled a grazing lease, away in the gullies under the shadows of Black Andrew mountain. By some mysterious means it even reached Briney Doyle, who was camped out near the foothills of Kosciusko, running wild horses into trap-yards. This occupation had taken such hold on him that he had become as wild as the horses he pursued, and it was popularly supposed that the other Doyles had to go out with horses to run him in whenever they ...
— An Outback Marriage • Andrew Barton Paterson
... is to be accused of my death; my reasons for killing myself are, in the words of Kosciusko, ...
— Cousin Betty • Honore de Balzac |
