"Gold mine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... score. But he began to be flirty again. He got hold of Jose's bridle, and before I could catch my breath he said I was a peach, and that he wanted to make a date with me, that his name was Chase, that he owned a gold mine in Mexico. He said a lot more I didn't gather, but when he called me 'Dearie' I—well, I lost ...
— Desert Gold • Zane Grey
... seems to be retreating," said Jack, after the man had gone on. "We've got to hurry and catch it, or it will run clean into Deadwood and crawl down a gold mine." ...
— The Voyage of the Rattletrap • Hayden Carruth
... been gained by bribery and the promise to open a rich mine of gold in Guiana, but the expedition proved a failure. There was a sharp fight with a party of Spaniards at St. Thomas, in which Raleigh's son was killed. As for the gold mine, it could not be found, and the expedition was forced to return with none of ...
— Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III • Charles Morris
... little I understood you. I've been living in poverty over a gold mine. But father, I'm so ignorant and Mr. Van Berg ...
— A Face Illumined • E. P. Roe
... again with the "second supply" of seventy persons; two of them were women. This time he was ordered to crown the Powhatan, and to find a gold mine, discover a passage to the South Sea, or find Raleigh's lost colony. Smith laughed at these orders. But they had to be obeyed; so several parties went southward in search of the lost colony, but found it not; Newport went westward beyond the falls of the James in search of the passage; and ...
— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster
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