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"Landing" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the points of fire running all over the floor, he stopped dead on the landing and fell a-trembling in ...

— The Well of Saint Clare • Anatole France

... than four hours in the port of Gottenburg, and we had therefore time to go into the town, distant about two miles, and whose suburbs extend as far as the port. On the landing-quay a captain lives who has always a carriage and two horses ready to drive travellers into the town. There are also one-horse vehicles, and even an omnibus. The former were already engaged; the latter, ...

— Visit to Iceland - and the Scandinavian North • Ida Pfeiffer

... and you'll see," chuckled Hawkins, beginning the ascent. "Oh, I'll tell you what," he continued, pausing on the second landing, "these women make ...

— Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures • Edgar Franklin

... for home and foreign mission work. The Methodist Conference of Canada (1918—Hamilton) has pledged itself to levy $8,000,000 in the next four years for mission work. In our own country, in our Western Provinces, the field secretaries are most active among our Catholic foreigners. On the landing stage of our docks they are found to welcome the immigrants to our shores. And what could we not say ...

— Catholic Problems in Western Canada • George Thomas Daly

... wisdom and love at that juncture, and it ought not to be a cause of regret. His interest in the welfare of the church ceased not with his mortal life. How swiftly would his glorified spirit fly to see the landing of William, and hover with joy over the flight of the besotted James! He was now in a situation to prove the truth of that saying, 'the angels desire to look into' the truth and spread of the glad tidings. How he would prove the reality of his opinion, ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

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