"Sayers" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mainly to guide them and mitigate their effects. Others stiffen their necks against development to meet those demands, staunch enemies to all reservoirs and other forms of compromise, stubborn if highminded nay-sayers against the tide, consistent even ...
— The Nation's River - The Department of the Interior Official Report on the Potomac • United States Department of the Interior
... thrown into a grand state of turmoil, and for a time every other topic was forgotten, to give place to this new excitement. People did not think last evening to ask who was nominated at Charleston, or whether the news of the Heenan and Sayers battle had arrived—everything was merged into the fugitive slave case, of which it seems ...
— Harriet, The Moses of Her People • Sarah H. Bradford
... } Cert, the six first Robert Early } to Mt'er Sayers as William Satcome } intended. Thomas Foster } Secondth to Mr. William Foster } Kiddey to pass in the ...
— Old New England Traits • Anonymous
... market place, and taking its eastern side, was a small nest of early merchants—E.M. Sayers, whose stores my firm bought eight years later; Watson and Wight; Were Brothers, whose senior, the well-known Mr. Jonathan Binns Were, was always, under all fortunes, a prominent and influential merchant and citizen; W. and H. Barnes and Co., and perhaps one or two more. But as the buildings ...
— Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne & Victoria • William Westgarth
... command of Lieut.-col. Baker. The companies two, three, and six were on board the Briton, under the orders of Major, afterwards Lieut.-col. Bunbury, and consisted of 311 soldiers, including 12 serjeants and 4 drummers, 34 women, 51 children, and the following officers, namely, Captains Best, Sayers, and Montgomery; Lieutenants Leslie and Freeman; Ensigns Hunter and Coleman; and Assistant-surgeon Gammie, medical officer in charge. The Briton was commanded by Captain Alexander Hall. She had a crew of 34, was a ...
— The Wreck on the Andamans • Joseph Darvall |
