"Buena Vista" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... When they got out of gin fresh supplies were brought in by slaves from a two-horse wagon outside, which had been captured that day, after a desperate and bloody struggle, by the bandits, on the plains of Buena Vista. ...
— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 3 • Charles Farrar Browne
... to credit to the beneficiary therein named, who is the postmaster at Buena Vista, in the State of Colorado, the sum of $225, being post-office funds forwarded by him to the deposit office at Denver, but which were lost ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 3 (of 3) of Volume 8: Grover Cleveland, First Term. • Grover Cleveland
... Cooking stove manufactory at Blacksburg, S. C. Nail, horse-shoe, and cotton tie factory at Iron Gate, Va. Iron foundry and stove works at Ivanhoe, Va. Wire fence factory at Bedford City, Va. Nail mill and rolling mill with 28 puddling furnaces at Buena Vista, Va. Car works by Boston capitalists at Beaumont, Texas. (Capital, $500,000.) Car works plant at Goshen, Va. Car works plant at Lynchburg, Va. Nail mill at Morristown, Tenn. Machine and iron works at Blacksburg, ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 • Various
... el envio por correo, de cortes (cuttings) de toda la serie y observaran que son telas de muy buena vista (very sightly) y se pueden ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano
... was Barnett; the countersign for the night was Buena Vista. About eleven o'clock I observed a man coming towards me. 'Halt!' I exclaimed; ...
— Continental Monthly - Volume 1 - Issue 3 • Various
... discovery with one vessel and two caravels. Pero Alonzo Nino, the pilot of the Nina in the first voyage, was with him. Herman Perez Matteos was another pilot, and there were a few other old shipmates in the squadron. The admiral touched at Buena Vista, one of the Cape de Verd Islands, remaining at anchor for a few days, and on July 5th he sailed away into the unknown ocean, for many days on a south-west course. His intention was to go south as far as the latitude of Sierra ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 8 - The Later Renaissance: From Gutenberg To The Reformation • Editor-in-Chief: Rossiter Johnson
... 22, 23, 1847] This poem was written to commemorate the bringing home of the bodies of the Kentucky soldiers who fell at Buena Vista, and their burial at Frankfort at the cost ...
— Poems of American Patriotism • Brander Matthews (Editor)
... there, captain, if you please," said Colonel Watson, who had been looking at Mr. Kent's blazing countenance and projecting eyes, in utter amazement. "Why, Buena Vista was nothing to this. Good night, madam, and do tell Susan not to jump into the fire again; I wonder she was not burned up while she was there. Come, captain, let us make ...
— Aunt Phillis's Cabin - Or, Southern Life As It Is • Mary H. Eastman
... content, doing more even than they suspect, and perchance better employed than they could have consciously devised. I am less affected by their heroism who stood up for half an hour in the front line at Buena Vista, than by the steady and cheerful valor of the men who inhabit the snowplow for their winter quarters; who have not merely the three-o'-clock-in-the-morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest, but whose courage does not go to ...
— Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience • Henry David Thoreau
... Braxton Bragg gained great credit for his conduct at the battle of Buena Vista, where, with a single battery of light artillery, he resisted the attack of a large force upon General Taylor's left flank, and thus prevented a movement that would otherwise have caused the immediate retreat and probable destruction of ...
— School History of North Carolina • John W. Moore
... West Point, he failed to recall the date of the battle of Buena Vista. "Suppose," said the exasperated instructor, "you were to go out to dinner and the company began to talk of the Mexican War, and you, a West Point man, were asked the date of the battle; what ...
— Whistler Stories • Don C. Seitz |
