"Gracie" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for Gracie, and you are so hard-hearted. I don't know what you will do—and I don't want her to grow up ...
— That Girl Montana • Marah Ellis Ryan
... work stood at the foot of East Eighty-eighth Street. See Document 41. Some ten years after the war, Archibald Gracie occupied this site, and it became known as Gracie's Point. The writer of a city guide-book in 1807, referring to Mr. Gracie, says: "His superb house and gardens stand upon the very spot called Hornshook, upon which a fort erected by the Americans ...
— The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn • Henry P. Johnston
... And suppose there ain't. Didn't Gracie Miller fall in the kitchen fire and burn herself terrible the very ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... down on the doorsill). My pappy name George, black George they call him in slavery time, 'cause dere was a small yallow slave on de place, named George. My mammy name Ca'line. My pappy b'long to de McNeals and my mammy b'long to Marse Joe Beard. His wife was my mistress. Her name Miss Gracie. 'Nitials? Dat sumpin' not in my lingo, Boss. You want to know what my pappy's old marster name? Seem to me they call him Marse Gene, though it been so long I done forgot. When my marster went to de war him got a ball through ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves • Works Projects Administration
... know anything at all about anything at all I know what I'm goin' to do. I ain't got no eddication, but that ain't goin' to keep me from seein' some others git it. You Gracie, fer one, an' you, too, Skeeter, if your old daddy'll let you come an' go to school with Gracie. But that ain't all; if you lads kin git ol' Eddy's son out o' the air on this contraption you're makin' an' hear him talk fer sure, I'm goin' ...
— Radio Boys Cronies • Wayne Whipple and S. F. Aaron
... 1700), Recorder of the city, was also a native of Scotland. John Watts (1749-1836), of Scots parentage, was the last Royal Recorder of the city, Speaker of the New York Assembly, Member of Congress, 1793-96, and founder of the Leake and Watts Orphan Asylum. Archibald Gracie, born in Dumfries, emigrated to America about 1778. Through his business enterprise he largely developed the commercial importance of the port of New York. He was also founder of the first Savings Bank in America, ...
— Scotland's Mark on America • George Fraser Black
... Nan and Bess, to say nothing of Gracie?" Amelia Boggs wanted to know. "You came on the last ...
— Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch • Annie Roe Carr |
