"Rusk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... economical manner to the claimants, and they will immediately pass into American hands, and become productive. The remainder of the country should then be thrown open to settlers. No better code of mining law exists than the Spanish, adopted in the Senate bill introduced by the late General Rusk, and passed at the last session of Congress. A judicious and liberal donation law, giving to the actual settler a homestead, and to the enterprising miner and "prospector" a fair security for the fruit of his labors, will at once make of Arizona a popular, thriving and wealthy ...
— Memoir of the Proposed Territory of Arizona • Sylvester Mowry
... don't know whether there was any malice aforethought in that committee nomination! Before I left Urbana a few weeks ago, Dean H. P. Rusk of our College of Agriculture asked me to invite you people to come to Urbana, Illinois for your meeting next year. So that, Mr. President, is an official invitation. We hope that you can all come. I see some of our Illinois friends ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting • Various
... a little glutton," added she with a smile; "you will drink the bouillon and eat the rusk; I will ...
— The Argonauts • Eliza Orzeszko (AKA Orzeszkowa)
... Arthur, for I was looking in the glass cases and under the counter for the pretty face, 'have you any rusk?' ...
— Aunt Phillis's Cabin - Or, Southern Life As It Is • Mary H. Eastman
... father bade me good-night early. I had fallen into a doze when I was roused by a dreadful crash and a piercing scream from Mrs. Rusk. Scream followed scream, pealing one after the other unabated, wilder and more terror-stricken. Then came a strange lull, and the dull sounds of ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI. • Various
... my chair a little more to the side of the fireplace, Bob. Yes, Patton, the footstool, if you please. You may go, James. John, the hook for my cane is on the left of the mantel-piece. Katrina, tell Sydney to put a shade less cream in my tea than she did yesterday. No cake, thank you, John, but a rusk,—yes, a rusk appeals to me. Bob, what wild thing did you do on that horse of yours ...
— A Tar-Heel Baron • Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton |
