"Jamaican" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Liberty's or from Swan and Edgar's, that the material from which it is woven is a Malayan plantain stalk? Who ever thinks that the glycerine for our chapped hands comes from Travancore coco-nuts, and that the pure butter supplied us from the farm in the country is coloured yellow with Jamaican annatto? We break a tooth, as Mr. Herbert Spencer has pointed out, because the grape-curers of Zante are not careful enough about excluding small stones from their stock of currants; and we suffer from indigestion ...
— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen
... you know," replied the Jamaican, "the letters are perfectly familiar, but I'm hanged if I know ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher |
