"Palo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in Palo Alto, California, Anthony Fox slammed the gate of Miss Mix's garden loudly behind him, and eyed the Mix homestead with disapproval. The house was square and white, with doors and windows open to spring sunlight and air, and was ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris
... rajah had certain information that the pirates intended to inflict pillage and massacre upon the people of that neighbourhood. On the evening of the 30th, tidings reached Sir James that the pirates were attacking a place called Palo. The next day one of the look-out boats brought in tidings that the pirates were advancing in full force. The Nemesis first put to sea; and being seen by the pirates, they made for the Kaluka river. The boats under the command of Lieutenants ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
... cadena para cerrar un puerto; zumbido. Isang palo sa sasakyan na maraming pinaggagamitan; tanikalang panghadlang ...
— Dictionary English-Spanish-Tagalog • Sofronio G. Calderon
... Mexicans crossed the Rio Grande and attacked the Americans at Fort Brown, Taylor was at Point Isabel. Hurrying southward to the relief of the fort, he met the enemy at Palo Alto, beat them, pushed on to Resaca de la Palma, beat them again, and soon crossed the river and took possession of the town of Matamoras. There he remained till August, 1846, waiting for supplies, reinforcements, and means of transportation, when he began a march toward the city ...
— A School History of the United States • John Bach McMaster
... motor rides from the city are three big universities. In addition to the University of California at Berkeley, which has one of the largest enrollments of any institution of its kind in the United States, there is Stanford University at Palo Alto, a privately endowed seat of learning with notably high standards of scholarship and a rigid limit on the number of its students, and the University of Santa Clara, which has trained many of California's public men and ...
— Fascinating San Francisco • Fred Brandt and Andrew Y. Wood
... see, but the unfamiliar growth of cacti, sage-brush, palo verde, and the dusty-miller plants made quick vision difficult. In a moment, however, he caught sight of the little reddish-gray animal running swiftly and almost ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Foresters • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... on. General Taylor's army met the enemy first at Palo Alto, where he ran across the Mexicans six thousand strong, and, though he had but two thousand men, drove them back, only losing nine men. This was the most ...
— Comic History of the United States • Bill Nye
... GALACTODENDRON.—The cow tree of South America, which yields a milk of as good quality as that from the cow. It forms large forests on the mountains near the town of Cariaco and elsewhere along the seacoast of Venezuela, reaching to a considerable height. In South America the cow tree is called Palo de Vaca, or Arbol de Leche. Its milk, which is obtained by making incisions in the trunk, so closely resembles the milk of the cow, both in appearance and quality, that it is commonly used as an article of food by the inhabitants of the places where the tree is abundant. Unlike ...
— Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture • William Saunders
... write. And at first, and alla time now, the bandits keep him shut up there at the mine. It ees so. Now the Se[n]or General De Soto Palo come. He attack the bandits. They soon be driven into the mountains away from the mines and we—we go back to work again for Se[n]or ...
— The Mission of Janice Day • Helen Beecher Long
... native Americans: C.F. Ingalls of 2702 Bush St., San Francisco and George Deatherage (the G.D. mentioned earlier). Deatherage now lives and operates out of St. Albans, W. Va. He organized the American Nationalist Confederation which used to have its headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Both these gentlemen also work ...
— Secret Armies - The New Technique of Nazi Warfare • John L. Spivak
... Jesus and making the sign of the cross. At last his ship entered the roads of Pontercole, where he landed, and after sending to Corneto to fetch horses, he rejoined the duke, who was there awaiting him. They then returned by slow stages, by way of Civita Vecchia and Palo, and reached Rome after an absence of a month. Almost at the same time d'Albret arrived in quest of his cardinal's hat. He was accompanied by two princes of the house of Navarre, who were received with not only those honours ...
— The Borgias - Celebrated Crimes • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... candles and crucifix, its vessels of holy water, and on the walls the inevitable paintings of heaven and purgatory. Their most charming feature was the arched cloister, a feature which has been retained and beautified in the architecture of Leland Stanford Jr. University, at Palo Alto. ...
— The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches • David Starr Jordan
... anticipate. The first battle between the forces of Mexico and the United States was fought at Palo Alto in the north, in May, 1846; the command of the former being under General Arista, and the latter under General Zachary Taylor, but the Mexicans were defeated. Texas had been declared a part of the American Union in the previous year (December, ...
— Mexico • Charles Reginald Enock
... pueblo, vendedora en la plaza. Viste pobremente; trae al brazo un gran cesto con sus variadas mercancas; en la mano un palo tarja. Su hablar es ...
— Heath's Modern Language Series: Mariucha • Benito Perez Galdos |
