"St. john's" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... carried to Cambridge a mind largely stocked with the new ideas that were budding into leaf. He certainly astonished the other freshmen, and occasionally puzzled the mighty Fellows of Trinity and St. John's. But he gradually withdrew himself much from general society. In fact, he was too old in mind for his years; and after having mixed in the choicest circles of a metropolis, college suppers and wine parties had little charm for him. He maintained his pugilistic renown; and on ...
— Kenelm Chillingly, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... the Hope. The dwelling-house was closed, the store shut up, the man in charge had not yet come up from St. John's; now what was to be done? Inside that wooden house lay piles and piles of all that the 'Moose that Walks' most needed. There was a whole keg of powder; there were bags of shot, and tobacco—there was as much as the Moose could smoke in ...
— The Drama of the Forests - Romance and Adventure • Arthur Heming
... know you are, but on the other hand, it really is Lesbia's turn, because you took the St. John's Ambulance last winter at the Parish ...
— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil
... off, and they never saw her again either, nor could they hear the address she gave the cabman. But it was somewhere up St. John's Wood way. ...
— The Lion and the Unicorn and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis
... the country. A purer form of religion has rejected most of the mythological material. But the old name of the spring remains, and, what is still more pertinent, the old belief in its healing power. We have evidence of this belief in St. John's Gospel, which contains the peculiar story of the healing at the pool of Bethesda, most probably connected with this same spring. The popular view that at times an angel came to trouble the water is perhaps an attempted explanation ...
— Nature Mysticism • J. Edward Mercer
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