"United states" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... valuable chapters of this remarkable book is that which contains a reprint of a famous letter by Benjamin Franklin, known as "Advice to a Young Man on Choosing a Mistress." Few people are aware that this letter exists. The United States Government is said to have paid $30,000 for the original. This Secret Franklin Letter, in the estimation of many people, is alone worth the price ...
— Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living • H.W. Long
... the Zervs, we did not believe you would take us in, we had to steal a ship. I am Carna, a Zoorph of the first grade, and this man is a native of the United States, the greatest country of this earth. Do not harm him, he can help you if ...
— Valley of the Croen • Lee Tarbell
... number of persons who to-day are indebted to these savages for the blessing of being Catholics and the advantage of being Canadians,"[76]—an advantage for which French-Canadians are so ungrateful that they migrate to the United States by myriads. ...
— A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I - France and England in North America • Francis Parkman
... has been extremely important in the economy of the United States during its period of early development. The handles of the axes which leveled extensive forested areas in Colonial days were frequently made from sturdy hickory wood. The nuts furnished food for man in the form of oil or nutmeats and often hogs were fattened ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting • Various
... flying-squirrels, the dearest little creatures for pets, are natives of the Rocky Mountains, but are found in all parts of the United States. They are very lazy, and sleep nearly all day, coming out at twilight for a merry frolic, leaping, flying, or scampering at pleasure among the tree-tops. They generally make their nest in some hollow trunk, where it is very ...
— Harper's Young People, January 6, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
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