"Po" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Po river in the morning of Monday, February 29, and made a halt of fifteen minutes to feed. Thence it pushed on, Davies's brigade still leading, by way of Newmarket, Chilesburg and Anderson's bridge across the South Anna river to Beaverdam Station on the Virginia Central railroad. This point was reached ...
— Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman - With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War • J. H. (James Harvey) Kidd
... hundred thousand had been compelled to flee to other countries. The war was waged not merely that James might regain his crown, but it was a great struggle for civil and religious freedom. It extended to other countries: battles were fought on the banks of the Rhine, the Danube, the Po; in the meadows of Holland; on the plains of Germany; amid the vineyards of Italy; in the wilderness of North America; on the Penobscot, Piscataqua, Merrimac, ...
— Harper's Young People, June 29, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... As he goes hobblin' pas'! He betta be prayin' and mebbe H'll git in de fold at las'! Yes, he's gwine to de grabe up yonder By de trees dar on de hill, Where all alone by hisself one day He buried po' massa Will! You see dey war boys togedder; To-day dey'd cuss an' fight; But dey'd make it up to-morrow And hunt fur coons ...
— The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland • Various
... In Vi-po-nah's lodge was his grandson, a boy six or seven months old. Every morning his mother washed him in cold water, and set him out in the air to make him hardy; he would come in, perfectly nude, from his airing, about half-frozen. ...
— The Old Santa Fe Trail - The Story of a Great Highway • Henry Inman
... Of Po-shai-an-k'ia, "the God (Father) of the Medicine Societies, or sacred esoteric orders of the Zunis," Mr. Gushing tells us: "He is supposed to have appeared in human form, poorly clad, and therefore reviled ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
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