"Pennsylvania" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that deal with life in Pennsylvania, within whose rich valleys and sequestered byways are hidden many phases of quaint and charming life of which the world knows all too little. "Alliquippa" is the story of an Indian prince of the Alleghanies, and deals with pioneer life in ...
— A Romance of the West Indies • Eugene Sue
... London: "The King of France strictly commands the Abbe Mazeas to write a letter in the politest terms to the Royal Society, to return the King's thanks and compliments, in an express manner, to Mr. Franklin, of Pennsylvania, for his useful discoveries in electricity, and the application of pointed rods to prevent the terrible effect of thunder-storms." And the same Mr. Collinson wrote as follows to the Reverend Jared Eliot, of Connecticut, ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, v. 13 • Various
... reason, Mosby was sure that Colonel Sir Percy Wyndham, commander of the brigade which included the Fifth New York, Eighteenth Pennsylvania and the First Vermont, would assume that this village was the raiders' headquarters. Colonel Wyndham, a European-trained soldier, would scarcely conceive of any military force, however small, without a regular headquarters ...
— Rebel Raider • H. Beam Piper
... le mains du monde. It took me three hours to come here from ze Pennsylvania station—such a crazy in and out route I gave ze chauffeur. If they succeed in following such a labyrinth as that, they deserve ...
— The Mask - A Story of Love and Adventure • Arthur Hornblow
... The great States of Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri, and the Territory of Minnesota, depend almost solely upon Michigan, and must do so. The present season, lumber has been taken from the forest of southwestern New York and northern Pennsylvania, and sold in the market of St. Louis, so urgent is the demand and so entirely inadequate are the present or prospective rates of supply for that demand. We have before us the statistics of the lumber trade of the different States and the principal markets in the country, but of what use is ...
— Old Mackinaw - The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings • W. P. Strickland
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