"Boston" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... upon them by the time they were ready to enjoy the supper of Boston baked beans, fried onions with the steak that had been procured at the last town they had passed through; crackers, some bread that one of them toasted to a beautiful brown color alongside the fire, and almost scorched his face in the bargain; ...
— The, Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island - or Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers • Herbert Carter
... From Boston Bay to Thobal fort Is a far cry, but bravery bridges The centuries, and of space makes sport. The shot that swept the salt sea-ridges When VERE BROKE of the Shannon smote The foe, and, struck, left WALLIS smiting,— Sends echoes down the years that float To Thobal o'er the sounds of fighting. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 100, April 25, 1891 • Various
... Boston Burnet Powder for the Face.—Five cents' worth of bay rum, five cents' worth of magnesia snowflake, five cents' worth of bergamot, five cents' worth oil of lemon; mix in a pint bottle and fill up with rain water. Perfectly harmless, ...
— The Ladies Book of Useful Information - Compiled from many sources • Anonymous
... of store clothes and shiny boots. Then you come back to dinner. I'll talk to him between then and now. He knows a lot about you. I'll tell him that since you left the Palestine you've been touring your native country to 'expand your mind.' She's Boston, as ugly as a brown stone jug, and highly intellectual. He's all right, and as good a sailor-man as ever trod a deck, but she's boss, runs the ship, and looks after the crew's morals. Thet's why we're short-handed. But she'll ...
— By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories • Louis Becke
... I find that every incident there recorded, from running aground at the start at San Diego Harbor, through the perilous icebergs round the Horn, the St. Elmo's fire, the scurvy of the crew and the small matters like the painting of the vessel, to the final sail up Boston Harbor, confirms my father's record. His former shipmate, the late B. G. Stimson, a distinguished citizen of Detroit, said the account of the flogging was far from an exaggeration, and Captain Faucon of the Alert also during his lifetime frequently confirmed all that ...
— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana
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