"Nixon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cool to him that evening, and sarcastically inquired why he was not in attendance upon Mademoiselle Duplaix as usual. She only laughed at his denials, and when he suggested that she should ask his friend, Perry Nixon, whether there was any ground for her suspicions, said that when she danced with Mr. Nixon later in the evening she hoped to find something more interesting to ...
— The Master Detective - Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles • Percy James Brebner
... in his hat-box; which was accordingly at once extracted from the hind-boot, and Tom equipped in his go-to-meeting roof, as his new friend called it. But this didn't quite suit his fastidious taste in another minute, being too shiny; so, as they walk up the town, they dive into Nixon's the hatter's, and Tom is arrayed, to his utter astonishment, and without paying for it, in a regulation cat-skin at seven-and-sixpence, Nixon undertaking to send the best hat up to the matron's room, School-house, ...
— Tom Brown's Schooldays • Thomas Hughes
... ANNOUNCEMENTS | | | |In the Church of the Heavenly Rest on Tuesday | |afternoon at 3:30 will be celebrated the wedding of | |Miss Doris Ryer, daughter of Mrs. Fletcher Ryer of | |San Francisco, Cal., to Stanhope Wood Nixon, son of | |Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Nixon. The wedding ceremony will | |be witnessed by a large number of relatives and | |friends from California and several of the principal| |Eastern cities where the families of both the bride | |and her fiance are ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer
... Jim Nixon stuck his jack-knife into the step beside him, pushed a rivet through canvas and fastening-strap, and remarked, casually: "He ought to lay off now—too old to be chorin' around. Young Bill could do all the work he's doin', after he comes ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... as the best. In the battle of Bunker Hill, where all were brave, two Negro soldiers so distinguished themselves that their names have come down to us garlanded with the tributes of their contemporaries. Peter Salem, until then a slave, a private in Colonel Nixon's regiment of Continentals, without orders fired deliberately upon Major Pitcairn as he was leading the assault of the British to what appeared certain victory. Everet in speaking "of Prescott, Putnam and Warren, the chiefs of the day," mentions in immediate connection ...
— The Colored Regulars in the United States Army • T. G. Steward
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