"Mikado" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to settle the whole case, for if the encyclopedia says it has no reason to be, then, like the edict of the Mikado, it is as good as dead, and if that is the case, "Why not say so?" On the contrary, the torsion balance seems very much alive. But as it is not very generally known, perhaps the early history of this form of balance, briefly sketched, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 • Various
... able to buy a quiet horse and a Mikado cutter for Belle when the snow came, but she had no pleasure out ...
— The Making of Mary • Jean Forsyth
... back and shut his library door and locked it, and was vexed with himself because for half an hour he could not see to go on with his cataloguing. And that evening his mother was pleased to hear him whistling softly an air from the "Mikado"—he had not whistled before in weeks. She was equally surprised when a little later he consented to act as Charley's best man. To her it seemed that Philip ought to feel as though he were a kind of pall-bearer at his own funeral. But he was quite too gay for a pall-bearer. He and Agatha had ...
— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston |
