"Trenton" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lying on the grass as I was walking along the road. I was going to Trenton to try and get a job in the potteries there. But I'd like to find ...
— Two Boys and a Fortune • Matthew White, Jr.
... wild mountain brooks of Massachusetts. I think a very attached maid of mine once saved my life by the tearful expostulations with which she opposed the bewitching invitations of the topaz-colored flashing rapids of Trenton Falls, that looked to me in some parts so shallow, as well as so bright, that I was just on the point of stepping into them, charmed by the exquisite confusion of musical voices with which they were persuading me, when suddenly a large tree-trunk ...
— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble
... mother dogs— those little Blenheim spaniels! Snub-nosed, round-headed with long silky flopping ears, soft curly coats and feathery tails. Felice liked the yellow and white ones, and always reached for them, but her grandfather coolly "weeded them out," as Zeb expressed it, because the Trenton ideal was a white dog marked ...
— Little Miss By-The-Day • Lucille Van Slyke
... great-grandfather of ours, was also Dutch. The family account of him is that he fought at Brandywine, crossed the Delaware with Washington, was wounded at the battle of Trenton, and that when he died, at the age of eighty-four years, the city of Philadelphia paid him the tribute of burial with ...
— The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson • Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez
... twenty-two knots an hour; railway trains do their sixty miles an hour; the ice-boats on the frozen Hudson do their sixty-five miles an hour; a machine built by the Patterson company, with a cogged wheel, has done its eighty miles; and another locomotive between Trenton and Jersey City has ...
— Rubur the Conqueror • Jules Verne
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