"On" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... we have better teachers in the country, but we must have more and better supervision. There is no valid reason why country superintendents should be elected on a political platform. It is the custom everywhere to choose city superintendents from among the best men or women anywhere in the field, inside or outside of the state. Such should also be the practice in choosing county superintendents. Then, too, a county should be divided into districts ...
— Rural Life and the Rural School • Joseph Kennedy
... Baby Pinky, who was putting on her new lemonade- colored hair ribbon, "I thought Santa ...
— Curly and Floppy Twistytail - The Funny Piggie Boys • Howard R. Garis
... deaths in our obituary for this month, I observe with concern "At his cottage on the Bath road, Captain Jackson." The name and attribution are common enough; but a feeling like reproach persuades me, that this could have been no other in fact than my dear old friend, who some ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb
... at the four of us at table—Captain West, his daughter, Mr. Pike, and myself—all fair-skinned, blue-eyed, and perishing, yet mastering and commanding, like our fathers before us, to the end of our type on the earth. Ah, well, ours is a lordly history, and though we may be doomed to pass, in our time we shall have trod on the faces of all peoples, disciplined them to obedience, taught them government, and dwelt in the palaces we have compelled them by the weight of our own right ...
— The Mutiny of the Elsinore • Jack London
... effusus amor; for La Bazalgette undeceived her ally and Mr. Hardie, and the screw was put harder still on poor Lucy. She was no longer treated like an equal, but made for the first time to feel that her uncle and aunt were her elders and superiors, and, that she was in revolt. All external signs of affection were withdrawn, and this was like docking ...
— Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade
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