"Corbett" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... free use of, without special credit, and am largely indebted to, the writings of Doctor Sturtevant and Professor Goff, Professor Munson of Maine, Professor Halsted of New Jersey, Professor Corbett of Washington, Professor Rolfs of Florida, Professor Bailey of New York, Professor Green of Ohio, and many others. I have also found a vast amount of valuable information in the agricultural press of this country in general. I am also indebted to L. B. Coulter and Prof. W. G. Johnson ...
— Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato • William Warner Tracy
... do our best to drive dull care away. Let us forget, this happy evening, that there are such things as logarithms, and sines, and tangents, and Greek tragedies. To-night our hearts shall be uplifted by sentiment and song. Brother Corbett, you will ...
— Walter Sherwood's Probation • Horatio Alger
... to take your horse I need not saddle myself upon your hospitality. I can ride back to Corbett's, and send the ...
— A Daughter of the Dons - A Story of New Mexico Today • William MacLeod Raine
... volume by E. Ducere entitled, "Les corsairs sous l'ancien regime" (Bayonne, 1895), is also valuable for the history of privateering. For the history of the Elizabethan mariners I have made use of the two works by J. S. Corbett: "Drake and the Tudor Navy" (Lond. 1898), and "The successors of Drake" (Lond. 1900). ...
— The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century • Clarence Henry Haring
... I jumps in. 'All over,' I says. 'My kid wins on a foul.' 'Foul nothing,' says Whiting. 'It was an accident, and you lose because you jumped into the fight, same as Connie McVey did when Corbett fought Sharkey. Think you can get away with it, pulling that old-time stuff?' I didn't trouble to argue with him. 'Oh,' I says, 'is that it? Say, just take a slant at your man. If you don't stop him ...
— The Coming of Bill • P. G. Wodehouse |
