"Croton" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cried Frank, "let's get in there and find their Croton system. I'm so thirsty my ...
— Boy Scouts in Mexico; or On Guard with Uncle Sam • G. Harvey Ralphson
... anxious this war should speedily end, "for," said he, "I would like nothing better than to see our people once more united as a nation; and then I want fifty thousand men at my command, so that I could march them to Canada, and go through those provinces like a dose of croton." ...
— Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive • Alf Burnett
... soldier dropped beside a melon, broke it with his bayonet, and filled himself, while the bullets whistled, and how they were all sick afterwards, and had to go to the rear because the people who owned the melons had put croton oil in them. ...
— Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy - 1899 • George W. Peck
... campaign. Stedman, the British historian, probably gives the correct reason why Washington was not followed. The American position, he says, was now "so advantageous that any attack on them must have proved unsuccessful, for the river Croton stretched along their front, and their rear was defended by woods and heights. Convinced that it was part of the enemy's system studiously to avoid an action, and that their knowledge of the country enabled them to execute this system with advantage, General Howe resolved to ...
— The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn • Henry P. Johnston
... us on such sorry chuck I wished myself most dead, It was old jerked beef, croton coffee, and sour bread. Pease River's as salty as hell fire, the water I could never go,— O God! I wished I had never come to the ...
— Cowboy Songs - and Other Frontier Ballads • Various |
