"Bret" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the "Bret Harte Country," Showing the Route Taken by the Writer, With the Towns, Important Rivers, and County Boundaries of ...
— A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country • Thomas Dykes Beasley
... pretty well," he said, approvingly. "Pity those babes don't know their Bret Harte any better. Guess I'll ring in some of Teddy's '97 trip on 'em to-morrow night." And then he sat down ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 • Various
... printer's devil had gone to the gold fields. In June the Star stopped for a like reason, and California was without a newspaper. Some men made $5000, $10,000, and $15,000 in a few days. California life in the early times is described in Kirk Munroe's Golden Days of '49, and in Bret Harte's Luck of Roaring Camp and Tales of ...
— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster
... Dink was resolutely set in the pursuit of that beau-ideal, which had a marked resemblance with a certain creation of Bret Harte's, Mr. Jack Hamlin, "gentleman sport," as Dennis would have called him, McCarty found little opportunity for friendly intercourse. He disapproved of many of Dink's friendships, not so much from a moralistic point of view as from Stover's ...
— The Varmint • Owen Johnson
... Bret Harte has written of the great city of San Francisco, and for the past fortnight I have been wondering what made ...
— American Notes • Rudyard Kipling
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