"Delaware river" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... or five feet wide is marked off on the floor by stretching two strings from one side of the room to the other or with chalk which represents the "Delaware River." Or an imaginary line will answer. Half of the players stand on one side of the space and ...
— Games For All Occasions • Mary E. Blain
... after the voyage of Henry Hudson, a company of Swedes made a settlement on the Delaware River. This had been planned by the great Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden. "That colony will be the jewel of my kingdom," he said; but the "Lion of the North" was slain in battle, and his twelve-year-old daughter Christina had ...
— The Little Book of the Flag • Eva March Tappan
... across the Delaware river, nine miles above Easton, Penn., lived a wealthy Dutch farmer, named Scheimer, who heard of the cure I had effected in Harmony, and as he had a son, sixteen years of age, afflicted in the same way, he sent for me to come and see him. I crossed the river, saw ...
— Seven Wives and Seven Prisons • L.A. Abbott
... made a settlement at the mouth of the Delaware River, but in 1655 they were subdued ...
— Outline of Universal History • George Park Fisher
... we sailed and steered a course for Cape May, with, the intention of proceeding up the Delaware river to Philadelphia. My account of the way in which I had frightened off the privateer highly delighted my shipmates, and Captain Hudson was pleased to approve of my conduct. We had on board forty masters of merchantmen which had been captured by the different ships-of-war. They ...
— Hurricane Hurry • W.H.G. Kingston |
