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"Treasure house" Quotes from Famous Books

... with the whole world—English, French, Dutch. It was almost a matter of life or death with her to keep her hold upon the New World. At home she was bankrupt and, upon the earthquake of the Reformation, her power was already beginning to totter and to crumble to pieces. America was her treasure house, and from it alone could she hope to keep her leaking purse full of gold and silver. So it was that she strove strenuously, desperately, to keep out the world from her American possessions—a bootless task, for the old order upon which her power rested was broken ...

— Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates • Howard Pyle

... be now, after the tragic years of a world war, and what it will become as a treasure house for the years to come, ...

— Foch the Man - A Life of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies • Clara E. Laughlin

... skeleton; those who were more cultivated, elevated to the See in times of greater refinement, contributed the minutely-worked iron railings, the doors of lace-like stonework, the pictures, and the jewels which made its sacristy a veritable treasure house. The gestation of the giantess had lasted for three centuries; it seemed like those enormous prehistoric animals who slept so long in their mother's ...

— The Shadow of the Cathedral • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... is my shepherd,' he quoted, 'I shall not want.' This morning He left the door opened and I wandered into His Treasure House, so I guess I'll get busy and grab what I can before the Night Watchman comes around. Ever see the Night Watchman, Boston? I have. He's a grave old party with a long beard, and he carries a scythe. You see him when you're thirsty, and—well, ...

— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne

... good boy, too, then I will make our garden larger, and build a little treasure house ...

— THE JAPANESE TWINS • Lucy Fitch Perkins

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