"Souvenir" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... presence, kept out of the way. The boat was a little beauty, one of the handsomest I ever saw. It contained five or six pounds of the best Virginia plug tobacco and several newspapers from Richmond. I would have been glad to have kept the boat as a souvenir, but had to despatch it to head-quarters with all its contents at once. Of course I never saw ...
— War from the Inside • Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock
... up her letter in his dispatch box. It would be a souvenir of a friendship which had seemed to promise much and which had ended abruptly in mystery. He did not answer it. Perhaps, probably, he would have done so but for the ...
— December Love • Robert Hichens
... small office behind the Indian souvenir shop in the Tangier Zocco Chico and said, "The operative Anton is on ...
— Border, Breed Nor Birth • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... who had found many acquaintances in Allahabad, had no difficulty in obtaining money from the garrison treasury, and Bathurst and Isobel purchased the two handsomest bracelets they could obtain from the ladies in the fort as a souvenir for Rabda, and gave them to her with the heartiest expressions of their deep gratitude to her and ...
— Rujub, the Juggler • G. A. Henty
... as you please, but no theft—such was the order of the day. A young man was bearing off a hat, decorated with plumes of a costly description. "Where are you going," cried his companions, "with that hat?" "It is only a souvenir," said he of the hat. "Ha! good; but in that case the value is nothing." So saying, they took the hat and trampled it under their feet, and then returned it to him—doubly valuable as a souvenir. Many striking traits of honesty were exhibited. One man brought a vase of silver to the ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 • Various
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