"Davis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... astonishing indeed if youths of all ages are not fascinated with these 'Stories for Boys.' Mr. Davis knows infallibly what will interest his young ...
— Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy • Frank Richard Stockton
... edition of Thomas Davis it is designed to offer a selection of his writings more fully representative than has hitherto appeared in one volume. The book opens with the best of his historical studies—his masterly vindication of the much-maligned Irish Parliament of James II.[1] Next follows a selection ...
— Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry • Thomas Davis
... all settled. She gave us 20 pounds down, and said she would write. I didn't like to ask questions, thinking, perhaps, it wasn't all on the square about the bairns, and so I'm not sure I ever even knew the name rightly—it was Davis, or Davison, or Dawson, or something that way. Tom Kinley knew all about the parties, and so I did not trouble. And then when he went to America there was no one to inquire of. Well, we had one letter about a year after, from some place in Inja, ...
— A Child of the Glens - or, Elsie's Fortune • Edward Newenham Hoare
... "Mrs. Davis' lodger is gone," said he. "Left without a word to anybody. When they went to her room they found it empty, with a five-dollar bill pinned to the riddled cushion. As nobody saw her go, we are as much at sea ...
— The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow • Anna Katharine Green
... you not ask me when you saw me doing nothing all last evening? You must get along the best way you can until night. I have engaged to work for Squire Davis, and I shall be late unless ...
— The Pearl Box - Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People • "A Pastor"
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