"Switzerland" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... quite different," said Elizabeth Eliza; "and Genoa lay in our route, while Geneva took him into Switzerland." ...
— The Last of the Peterkins - With Others of Their Kin • Lucretia P. Hale
... dreamily, "we met some Americans in Switzerland who told us of a similar experience in this hotel. Later, I learned that Dad found out at the time that the place was reputed to be haunted by an old monk physician who turns up at intervals and feels people's pulses, and is often seen pottering about ...
— The Spanish Chest • Edna A. Brown
... crowning portion of that remarkable edifice was modelled on the Temple of the Winds at Athens, and, as he gazed at it this morning, he suffered from the thought of his narrow experience in travel. A glimpse of the Netherlands, of France, of Switzerland, was all he could boast. His income had only just covered his expenditure; the holiday season always found him more or less embarrassed, and unable to go far afield. What Can one do on a paltry three hundred a year? Yet ...
— Our Friend the Charlatan • George Gissing
... may find swinging high in the trees, While I rock on my greenish-blue eggs in the breeze, Yet I fish for a living, and love water more Than land, though I'm careful to keep near the shore. Transposed, I'm a river, you'll see at a glance, In Switzerland starting, ...
— The Youth's Companion - Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 • Various
... a second visit to Italy; travelling through a part of Switzerland, stopping at Milan, Venice, Genoa, and Florence, and returning to Paris on May 3rd. His health was, he said, detestable at this time, and he required rest and change. He went alone, as Gautier, who had intended ...
— Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings • Mary F. Sandars
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