"Buckeye" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... up, and perceived for the first time on the ledge, thirty feet above me, another trail parallel with my own, and looking down upon me through the buckeye bushes a small man ...
— Drift from Two Shores • Bret Harte
... paid me, neither. You shell out, you Buckeye Pete!" spoke up a tall Kentuckian, with a mastiff ...
— Down the Mother Lode • Vivia Hemphill
... wouldn't legislate, (and early, too,) if he could do it with his feet on the fender, his well-flavored Havana or best Virginia leaf in his mouth, and the privilege of cracking jokes and telling naughty stories ad interim? Go it, ye Buckeye lawmakers! Shall we hear of any sympathy for Cuba ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 7, 1870 • Various
... parlor were plastered with "hand-painted" pictures, "buckeye" pictures, of birch-trees, news-boys, puppies, and church-steeples on Christmas Eve; with a plaque depicting the Exposition Building in Minneapolis, burnt-wood portraits of Indian chiefs of no tribe in particular, a pansy-decked poetic motto, ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis
... largest specimens are apt to be hollow at the centre. It ripens rather early; and, even when dug long before maturity, it has a dryness and mealiness, when prepared for the table, not found in many other sorts. The Buckeye is extensively grown for market; its yield is not satisfactory, and its quality is only medium. The Dykeman is yet grown to some extent, but will soon ...
— The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato; and How to Cook the Potato • D. H. Compton and Pierre Blot
... of Ohio whose women were remarkable for their beauty. The wife of William Dennison, one of the District Commissioners, was Mr. Neil's sister and her daughter, Miss Jenny Dennison, was one of the belles of the Hayes administration. There were so many representatives of the "Buckeye State" at that time in Washington that someone facetiously spoke of the city as the "United States of Ohio." Mr. and Mrs. Matthew W. Galt, parents of Mrs. Reginald Fendall, lived in the next house in the H Street block, while adjoining them ...
— As I Remember - Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century • Marian Gouverneur
... on the boys from the Buckeye State. They had been sent to the Alsatian border to hold the line against a threatening foe. Persistent rumors told of a German drive on this sector. Nothing but our men and guns and a few hastily constructed wire entanglements stood ...
— The Fight for the Argonne - Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man • William Benjamin West
... window a card bearing the words: "You kick the bucket; we do the rest." A paper will head an account of the hanging of three mulattoes with "Three Chocolate Drops." It has no reverence for the names and phrases associated with our deepest religious feelings. Buckeye's patent filter is advertised as thoroughly reliable—"being what it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be." Mr. Boyesen tells of meeting a venerable clergyman, whose longevity, according to his introducer, was due to the fact that "he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity." ...
— The Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of His American Kin • James Fullarton Muirhead
... represented in the illustration of the beetles in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 38 is just like the California buckeye-tree. The ...
— Harper's Young People, October 19, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... of Illinois who ruled with sword and pen; And Hayes, and Garfield who was shot, two noble Buckeye men. Chester Arthur from New York, and Grover Cleveland came; Ben Harrison served just four years, then ...
— Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two • Various |
