"Flinders" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the day drew near, The spears in flinders flew; And many a gallant Englishman Ere day the ...
— Ballad Book • Katherine Lee Bates (ed.)
... of Port Curtis, and sent in two boats to sound. On their return with a favourable report, the ship was got underweigh, and ran in under the headsails to round Gatcombe Head, by the channel laid down in Flinders' chart; but, while following a boat ahead in charge of the master, the signal to anchor immediately was made, and we brought up as required, being then about the middle ...
— Narrative Of The Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By The Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During The Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries And Surveys In New Guinea, The Louisiade • John MacGillivray
... I heard that you had already entered into negotiations with an Atlanta tent factory to furnish you with a tabernacle, an' I must say it ain't a bad notion, because many a fine bush-arbor meeting has been busted all to flinders by sudden showers that good, stout canvas would shed as well as a roof of shingles. I want to contribute five dollars toward the fund myself; but I'm here to confess to you frankly that I wouldn't like ...
— Dixie Hart • Will N. Harben
... clear, the day drew near, The spears in flinders flew, But mony a gallant Englishman, Ere ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott
... was obliged to slay himself when commanded to do so by the priests. A similar custom prevailed in Babylonia and among the ancient Prussians, while several modern African tribes slay their King when the first sign of age or infirmity begins to show itself in him. Professor Flinders Petrie has shown[*] that the greatest of the Egyptian feasts, the 'Sed' Festival, was a ceremonial survival of a time when the Pharaoh, the Priest-King and representative of God on earth, was slain at fixed intervals. The object in all such cases is manifestly ...
— The Sea-Kings of Crete • James Baikie
... had not noticed she had put it on my seat when she got out to hold the horses. I knocked it flying across her, and it smashed to flinders on the near fore wheel, drenching it and splashing over Danny's hind legs. I grabbed the reins from Paulette, and I thought of skunks, and a sulphide factory,—and dead skunks and rotten sulphide at that. Even in the freezing evening air the smell that came from that ...
— The La Chance Mine Mystery • Susan Carleton Jones
... the hold-up signal, Morgan, to tell them they've knocked the nest to flinders and that there's no need of wasting ...
— Air Service Boys Flying for Victory - or, Bombing the Last German Stronghold • Charles Amory Beach
... on the question in the winter of 1894-95 by the excavations of Flinders Petrie in Ballas and Neggadeh, two places on the west bank of the Nile, a little below ancient Thebes. This persevering English investigator discovered here a very large necropolis in which he examined about three thousand ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898 • Various
... power did the strange, wild warning in the woods have over Polly Flinders? Carol brings happiness to three families ...
— Maida's Little Shop • Inez Haynes Irwin |
