"Hurst" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sing it," was the vexed rejoinder of the master. "You know your voice is gone, Hurst. You should have gone up to the organist, stated the case, and had another ...
— The Channings • Mrs. Henry Wood
... they are called—and I had read that it was uphill work to get a book published, and swagger through the world as a real live being who had actually written a novel. There was a faint hope, that was all; and so, with my MS. under my arm, I strolled into the palatial premises of Messrs. Hurst and Blackett ("successors to Henry Colburn" they proudly designated themselves at that period), laid my heavy parcel on the counter, and waited, with fear and trembling, for someone to emerge from the galleries of books and rows of desks beyond, and enquire the nature of my business. And here ensued ...
— The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... DUDENEY'S Spade Work (HURST AND BLACKETT) is a queer story queerly told. A musician and an art-and-crafty girl, both poor and both dull, are engaged. The musician, visiting his fiancee, now well off and installed in a comfortable ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, February 4, 1920 • Various |
