 ... the Bowie-knife and the revolver, which has chewed the juice out of all the superlatives in the language in Fourth of July orations, and so used up its epithets in the rhetoric of abuse that it takes two great quarto dictionaries to supply the demand...  Timeless Healing: The Power and Biology of Belief - עמוד 118מאת Herbert Benson, Marg Stark - 2009 - 316 דפיםתצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - מידע על ספר זה
 | 1860 - 838 דפים
...in the rhetoric of abuse, that it takes two great quarto dictionaries to supply the demand ; which insists in sending out yachts and horses and boys,...creation — how could such a people be content with anything but heroic practice ? What wonder that the stars and stripes wave over doses of ninety grains... | |
 | 1860 - 830 דפים
...outfight and checkmate all the rest of creation — how could such a people be content with anything but heroic practice ? What wonder that the stars and stripes wave over doses of ninety grains of sulphate of quinine, and that the American eagle screams with delight to see the three drachms of calomel... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1861 - 450 דפים
...epithets in the rhetoric of abuse that it takes two great quarto dictionaries to supply the demand ; which insists in sending out yachts and horses and boys...stars and stripes wave over doses of ninety grains of sulphate of quinine,* and that the American eagle screams with delight to see three drachms of calomel... | |
 | American Unitarian Association - 1861 - 600 דפים
...medicine as those of the doctors, except those of apothecaries ; and considers it a fact of American life, that the stars and stripes wave over doses of ninety grains of sulphate of quinine, and the American eagle screams with delight to see three drachms of calomel given... | |
 | 1879 - 306 דפים
...the demand, which insists in sending out yachts, and horses, and boys to out sail, out run, out fight and checkmate all the rest of creation; how could...stars and stripes wave over doses of ninety grains of sulphate of quinine, and that the American eagle screams with delight to see three drachms of calomel... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 478 דפים
...epithets in the rhetoric of abuse that it takes two great quarto dictionaries to supply the demand ; which insists in sending out yachts and horses and boys...stars and stripes wave over doses of ninety grains of sulphate of quinine," and that the American eagle screams with delight to see three drachms of calomel... | |
 | William Sloane Kennedy - 1883 - 374 דפים
...dictionaries to supply the demand ; which insists in sending out yachts and horses and boys to out-sail, out-fight, and checkmate all the rest of creation—...stars and stripes wave over doses of ninety grains of sulphate of quinine, and that the American eagle screams with delight to see three drachms of calomel... | |
 | OLIVER WENDELL HOLMS - 1891 - 470 דפים
...epithets in the rhetoric of abuse that it takes two great quarto dictionaries to supply the demand ; which insists in sending out yachts and horses and boys...stars and stripes wave over doses of ninety grains of sulphate of quinine," and that the American eagle screams with delight to see three drachms of calomel... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 482 דפים
...epithets in the rhetoric of abuse that it takes two great quarto dictionaries to supply the demand ; which insists in sending out yachts and horses and boys...stars and stripes wave over doses of ninety grains of sulphate of quinine," and that the American eagle screams with delight to see three drachms of calomel... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 502 דפים
...epithets in the rhetoric of abuse that it takes two great quarto dictionaries to supply the demand ; which insists in sending out yachts and horses and boys...stars and stripes wave over doses of ninety grains of sulphate of quinine," and that the American eagle screams with delight to see three drachms of calomel... | |
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