"Ross" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... students in their costumes and long hair, and an actress of some reputation. He had also procured the head of a New Zealand chief; some red snow, or rather, red water (for it was melted), brought home by Captain Ross; a piece of granite from the Croker mountains; a kitten in spirits, with two heads and twelve legs; and half-a-dozen abortions of the feathered or creeping tribes. Everything went off well. The two last ...
— Newton Forster • Frederick Marryat
... 16th of February, the Resolute cast anchor near Greenwich. She was a screw propeller of eight hundred tons, a fast sailer, and the very vessel that had been sent out to the polar regions, to revictual the last expedition of Sir James Ross. Her commander, Captain Bennet, had the name of being a very amiable person, and he took a particular interest in the doctor's expedition, having been one of that gentleman's admirers for a long time. Bennet was rather a man of ...
— Five Weeks in a Balloon • Jules Verne
... Government, realizing the necessity for better magnetic charts of the south polar regions, and urged by the scientific societies of England, sent out a second expedition to the antarctic under the command of Sir James Ross. The expedition sailed from England in the fall of 1839 in the Erebus and Terror, both of which were subsequently lost in the unfortunate Franklin expedition.[2] On this voyage Ross made many discoveries, the most important of which was Victoria Land. On ...
— Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania • Jewett Castello Gilson
... in this short colloquy were Mrs. Girzie Ross, housekeeper, and Mr. Alexander McRath, house-steward ...
— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth
... Sachen, 325 Selber zog aus dem Stall er hervor das beste der Rosse, Welches er "Lwe" genannt um seiner Vorzglichkeit willen; Stampfend stand es und nagte voll Mut an den schumenden Zgeln. Als er darauf mit dem Schmuck es umhllt in blicher Weise, Hngt er die Schreine, mit Schtzen gefllt, dem Ross an die Seiten, 330 Fgt auch Speisen hinzu, nicht viel fr die Lnge des Weges. Und die wallenden Zgel vertraut er der Rechten der Jungfrau, Selber jedoch, von dem Panzer umhllt nach der Weise der Recken, Setzt er ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas
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