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More "February 2" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the other, he was far decumbent in years, quite of a previous generation, a perfect Rameses, whose senile face was wont to crack into wrinklish mirth when his palsied cronies called him the greatest poet born on February 2, 1886. ...
— Pipefuls • Christopher Morley
... commence very soon; it was time to leave the hut. As she was about to go she picked up a newspaper from the seat that she had not noticed before in the dim light. The newspaper was dated February 2. Then this thought came to her: This newspaper was on the only spot in the place where one could sit down, and the date of it was several months previous, so then this proved that the hut had been abandoned and no one had passed through the ...
— Nobody's Girl - (En Famille) • Hector Malot
... Makna (January 25—February 2) justified the pleasant impression left by the first visit, and enabled us to correct the inaccuracies ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton
... Others, after the event, imagined that they were caused by the jealous or admonishing spirit of her dead sister. Fanny and Mr. K. (having sued Mr. Parsons for money lent) left his rooms in dudgeon, and went to Bartlet Court, Clerkenwell. Here Fanny died on February 2, 1760, of a disease which her physician and apothecary certified to be small-pox, and her coffin was laid in the vault of St. John's Church. Now the noises in Cock Lane had ceased for a year and a half after Fanny left the house, but they ...
— Cock Lane and Common-Sense • Andrew Lang
... festival of the Assumption, August 15, as this is generally considered the most important of the various festivals in honor of the Virgin, such as, for example, the Nativity of Mary (September 8), the Purification of the Blessed Virgin (February 2), and the Annunciation ...
— Legends, Tales and Poems • Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
... vote.[31] Urged by the members of the National Association, and by his own strong convictions as to the justice of the cause, Senator Henry W. Blair (N. H.), on Dec. 8, 1886, called up the following, which he had reported for the majority of the committee on February 2 ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various
... made of San Francisco, that sleepy Spanish Pueblo, in a few months' time a cosmopolitan city of fifty thousand people. Two years earlier, as a result of the Mexican War, California had been declared an American Territory, though not formally ceded to the United States until February 2, 1848. It was generally believed that the Mexican War had been waged and California acquired in the interest of negro slavery. James Russell Lowell voices this belief in ...
— Starr King in California • William Day Simonds
... The next day (February 2) showed me my objective, Izrah, after a voyage of nearly three months. The caravan, now homeward-bound after a fashion, rose early, and we hammocked in the cool and misty morning along shore to Inyenapoli—the word means Greater Inyena, as opposed to Inyenachi, the Less. In the house of Mr. J. ...
— To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II - A Personal Narrative • Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron
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