"Holmes" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... our keeping the enemy at bay, counting too, upon their exhaustion at last, until fresh troops could arrive to reinforce us. At length, about half past ten in the evening, the divisions of Magruder, Wise and Holmes, came up and deployed to the ...
— Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 • Charles Augustus Fuller
... Holmes Benjamin Franklin "Josh Billings" "Mark Twain" Charles Dudley Warner James T. Fields Henry ...
— Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor - Volume I • Various
... that she means to go to see you very soon. Give my very kind remembrance to Miss Holmes, and believe me, ...
— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) • Frederic G. Kenyon
... be taken as a principle that, where it is desired to give to one character a special prominence and predominance, it ought, if possible, to be the first figure on which the eye of the audience falls. In a Sherlock Holmes play, for example, the curtain ought assuredly to rise on the great Sherlock enthroned in Baker Street, with Dr. Watson sitting at his feet. The solitary entrance of Richard III throws his figure ...
— Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship • William Archer
... Mr. Holmes told of the breaking of the ground for the new building last winter, under very trying difficulties, with little to draw upon but their oft-proved Bank of Faith and Prayer, and of Mr. Weaver's coming North for help, and his return, telling ...
— The American Missionary -- Vol. 48, No. 10, October, 1894 • Various
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