"Mono" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Bun Hill gas-works and drop it upon deserving people's lawns and gardens. There were half a dozen reassuring years for Tom—at least so far as flying was concerned. But that was the great time of mono-rail development, and his anxiety was only diverted from the high heavens by the most urgent threats and symptoms of change in ...
— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells
... Chartered Company should be granted the right to strike coins of copper, nickel, silver and gold, the first three to be issued at three times eight times and twice the value of the metals respectively, the said currency to be on a gold basis and mono-metallic and not to exceed the amount of $100 ...
— On Something • H. Belloc
... from the opener to the carding room, the more modern mills are doing away rapidly with hand-power, and carry the lap on a sort of travelling mono-rail conveyor. ...
— The Fabric of Civilization - A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States • Anonymous
... First named Toto-mono, or Treasure, by his parents, who sent him to Ki[o]t[o] to be educated for the priesthood, the youth spent four years in the study of the Chinese classics. Dissatisfied with the teachings of Confucius, he became a disciple of a famous Buddhist priest, named Iwabuchi (Rock-edge ...
— The Religions of Japan - From the Dawn of History to the Era of Meiji • William Elliot Griffis
... the body, which becomes blanched on the throat, belly, and insides of the thighs. Its colour, in fact, is somewhat of the hue of the half-blood Indian and Negro,—hence the marimonda is known in some parts of Spanish America by the name of "mono zambo," or "zambo" monkey—a "zambo" being the descendant ...
— Popular Adventure Tales • Mayne Reid |
