"Or" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... food and defense. There was a dangerous scarcity of powder and lead. The nearest points at which these necessaries could be procured were the Watauga and Holston River settlements, which were themselves none too well stocked. Harrod and Logan, some time in 1777, reached the Watauga fort with three or four packhorses and filled their packs from Sevier's store; but, as they neared home, they were detected by red scouts and Logan was badly wounded before he and Harrod were able to drive their precious load safely ...
— Pioneers of the Old Southwest - A Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground • Constance Lindsay Skinner
... old ways, and loved old friends, Till, one by one, they've slipped away; Stand where we will, cling as we like, There's none but God can be our stay. 'Tis only by our hold on Him We keep a hold on those who pass Out of our sight across the seas, Or underneath the ...
— Out in the Forty-Five - Duncan Keith's Vow • Emily Sarah Holt
... express the character of the occupants of a house. The day has passed when soiled or ragged lace curtains are tolerated. The cheaper simpler scrims and cheese cloths which are easily laundered are now ...
— The Upward Path - A Reader For Colored Children • Various
... and Chinese taste, together with objects taken from nature, such as the most curious animals in the national menagerie, likewise occupy their talents. All these subjects are executed in different sizes, and form, together or separately, decorations for apartments or tables, particularly pilasters, and plateaux, in which the richness of the materials is surpassed by ...
— Paris As It Was and As It Is • Francis W. Blagdon
... engagements that followed; but the decisive battle was fought in August of the year 338, in the plain of Chaerone'a, in Boeotia. The hostile armies were nearly equal in numbers; but there was no Pericles, or Epaminondas, to match the warlike abilities of Philip and the young prince Alexander, the latter of whom commanded a wing of the Macedonian army. The Grecian army was completely routed, and the event broke up the ...
— Mosaics of Grecian History • Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpont Willson
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