"Salem" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... great quantities of powder and balls were taken out of Boston into the country, in spite of his guard on the Neck. Every market wagon, and every kind of baggage, was stowed with ammunition. He then sent a party of troops to Salem to seize some cannon and stores our men had placed there; but Colonel Pickering, with a few men, made such a show, that the red-coats marched back again, without accomplishing their object. Our chief deposit of stores was at Concord, up here ...
— The Yankee Tea-party - Or, Boston in 1773 • Henry C. Watson
... went to Salem, and met a number of "Friends" who were abolitionists, and who appeared desirous to embrace every suitable ...
— A Visit To The United States In 1841 • Joseph Sturge
... are often exhumed from the glacial drift at a depth of from twenty to sixty feet from the surface. Dr. Locke has published an account of a mass of buried drift-wood at Salem, Ohio, forty-three feet below the surface, imbedded in ancient mud. The museum of the University of Michigan contains several fragments of well-preserved tree-trunks exhumed from wells in the vicinity of Ann ...
— Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel • Ignatius Donnelly
... the commander in Spanish that was more fluent than elegant or precise,—his name was Peleg Scudder. He was master of the schooner General Court, of the port of Salem, in Massachusetts, on a trading voyage to the South Seas, but now driven by stress of weather into the bay of San Carlos. He begged permission to ride out the gale under the headlands of the Blessed Trinity, and no more. Water he did not need, having taken in a supply at ...
— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte
... Keeler, remarks, concerning a swamp muck occurring at South Salem, N. Y., that "it has been used in the fresh state, applied to corn and potatoes, and appears to be equal to good barn manure:" further:—"it has rarely been weathered more than two months, and then applied side by side with the best yard manure ...
— Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel • Samuel William Johnson
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