"Service abroad" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... landscape painter Collegiate education, discussion of Collins line of steamers Colucci, Sig., Italian consul at Crete Comoundouros, Greek prime minister his character brief references to Coney Island "Conscious mind in creation," Constable, John, artist Constantinople Consular service abroad, weakness of Conversion, Baptist views concerning See, also, Revival meetings. Corfu Cornhill Magazine, Stillman contributes article to, ...
— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II • William James Stillman
... was made at a dinner given in New York by the Lotos Club in honor of Mr. Reid, who had been its president for fourteen years prior to his first diplomatic service abroad in 1889. It was the first public utterance by any one of the Peace Commissioners after the ratification of the ...
— Problems of Expansion - As Considered In Papers and Addresses • Whitelaw Reid
... American Army. Nevertheless, in spite of his physical and military qualifications, President Wilson rejected him. Why? The unsympathetic asserted that Mr. Wilson took care to assign no conspicuous officer to service abroad who might win laurels which would bring him forward as a Presidential possibility in 1920. On the other hand, cynics, remembering the immemorial jealousy between the Regulars and Volunteers in both the Army and ...
— Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography, • William Roscoe Thayer
... picked up a small, deep shell. "My story is short," he began. "It could be packed into this. I was born in the island of Mull, of my father a chieftain, and my mother a lady. Some schooling I got in Aberdeen, some pleasure in Edinburgh and London, and some service abroad. In my twenty-third year—being at home at that time—I was asked to a hunting match at Braemar, and went. No great while afterwards I was bidden to supper at an Edinburgh tavern, and again I accepted the invitation. There was a small ...
— Audrey • Mary Johnston
... duly doth pertain to your desert. Trust me, the prince herself, unmoved of my part, Your dutiful service hath specially regarded, And expressly commands that it be well rewarded Wherefore you shall not need to seek service abroad: I exhort you at home still to make your abode: That if in this realm occasions of wars be offered, You and others your like ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VIII (4th edition) • Various |
