"L" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... carpet, plainly dressed in a blue tobe of Soudan, and a shawl turban. Two negroes were on each side of him, armed with pistols, and on his carpet lay a brace of those instruments. Fire arms were hanging in different parts of the room, presents from the bashaw and Mustapha L'Achmar, the sultan of Fezzan, which are here considered as invaluable. His personal appearance was prepossessing, apparently not more than forty-five or forty-six, with an expressive countenance and benevolent smile. They delivered their letter from the ...
— Lander's Travels - The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa • Robert Huish
... rhetorician back to the north of Normandy. Now it was shooting at Saint Julien-l'Hospitalier, across fields, bogs, and through the woods. From that time on he sealed his pact with the earth, and those "deep and delicate roots" which attached him to his native soil began to grow. It was of Normandy, broad, fresh and virile, that he would presently demand his inspiration, ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
... "Tawps'l-yard, there!" he shouted. "I s'pose you don't happen to see nothin' of that there blamed Kingfisher anywhere about, ...
— Turned Adrift • Harry Collingwood
... book. "How to Obtain a Patent" and "Record of Invention" form. No charge for information on how to proceed. Communications strictly confidential. Prompt, careful, efficient service. Clarence A. O'Brien, Registered Patent Attorney, 1876 Security Savings and Comm'l Bank Building (directly across street from ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various
... Spider, "with a F an' a L thrown in—that's what you'll be, Geoff, if you try t' buck Bud an' th' gang. So here I've shinnied up y'r fire escape to put ye wise an' lend a hand ...
— The Definite Object - A Romance of New York • Jeffery Farnol
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