"San Sebastian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I have sized up the situation, it is best that I should. The Duchess ran away. She was supposed to be at San Sebastian with a trusted attendant. The attendant was evidently not to be trusted, for she disappeared, too. They were traced to London, then to Madeira, then to a North German Lloyd liner which stopped at the island on its way to America. Then to ...
— Charred Wood • Myles Muredach
... column makes no pretense of carrying sporting news, it seems only right to print a part of the running story of the big game between Capablanca and Dr. O.S. Bernstein in the San Sebastian tournament of 1911. Capablanca wore the white, while Dr. Bernstein upheld the honor of ...
— Love Conquers All • Robert C. Benchley
... the wrecked vessel, and describe the fate of her captain and crew. She was a Norwegian brig, the Auguste Hermann Francke, bound from Krageroe to sunny San Sebastian with a cargo of ice. She had a crew of seven all told, and ...
— Heroes of the Goodwin Sands • Thomas Stanley Treanor
... she's traveling," said his companion. "She is probably in Madrid, in San Sebastian, or in Cadiz. She goes off very frequently. She has friends everywhere.... And I have ventured to ask you here ...
— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... of churches, celebrates its Sabbath in its own peculiar way. The Protestant churches suffer in comparison with the grand church of San Sebastian—set up from the iron plates made in Belgium—and the churches of the various religious orders. Magnificence and show appeal most strongly to the Filipino. He is taught to look down on the Protestant religion as plebeian; the priests regard the Protestant with condescending ...
— The Great White Tribe in Filipinia • Paul T. Gilbert
... employed in making chocolate and sweetmeats (dulces) is so enormous, that the exportation has been hitherto entirely null. The finest plantations of sugar are in the valleys of Aragua and of the Tuy, near Pao de Zarate, between La Victoria and San Sebastian, near Guatire, Guarenas, and Caurimare. The first canes arrived in the New World from the Canary Islands; and even now Canarians, or Islenos, are placed at the head of most of the great plantations, and superintend the labours of cultivation ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America V2 • Alexander von Humboldt
... morning of the 20th June the fleet anchored off the spit of San Sebastian on the southern side ...
— By England's Aid • G. A. Henty
... heard of Ojeda and his new colony of San Sebastian, another expedition, commanded by Enciso, set sail in search ...
— Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia • Samuel Griswold Goodrich |
