"Burroughs" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... exclaimed in pouting reproach, "do I appear as promiscuous as that? You may call me a 'blue book,' but spare my snobbery the opprobrious epithet of 'directory.' There goes the fascinating young Mrs. Shurly with Purcell Burroughs in her toils. Did you catch the fine oratory of the glance she threw us? It said, 'Dorothy Gwynne, how dare you appropriate Dr. Kemp for ten long minutes? Hand him over; pass him around. I want him; you are only boring him, though you seem ...
— Other Things Being Equal • Emma Wolf
... Poets' (Boston, 1877), Mr. John Burroughs says that he knows of only two noteworthy poetical tributes to the mocking-bird, those by Whitman and by Wilde, both of which he quotes. But since the appearance of his book many poems have been written to the mocking-bird, several ...
— Select Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier
... one day: "Burroughs, if there's a mystery to be unravelled; I'd rather put it in your hands than to trust it to any ...
— The Gold Bag • Carolyn Wells
... country like a book," he said to John Burroughs, who was beside him. "I have ridden over it and hunted in it and tramped over it in all seasons and weather, and it looks like home ...
— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn
... M.) near which, to the north, can be seen the estate of Frederick W. Vanderbilt. There are many beautiful country-places in the district. A little beyond Hyde Park on the west bank of the river is "Slabsides," the cabin home of John Burroughs, the poet, philosopher, and widely known writer ...
— The Greatest Highway in the World • Anonymous
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