"Chalk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... EPOCH.—The Mesolithic, or Secondary Epoch, constitutes the Age of Reptiles and Pine Forests, Coniferae, and is made up of the Triassic, Jurassic, and Chalk Period. ...
— Was Man Created? • Henry A. Mott
... he mounted it, produced from his pocket a piece of red chalk, and traced in large letters ...
— Jim Spurling, Fisherman - or Making Good • Albert Walter Tolman
... before ten o'clock you mark on your door-post two crosses in chalk," said the other. "Do that ...
— The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant • W. W. Jacobs
... being driven into a corner at Saint-Valery, between the broad and sandy estuary of the Somme and the open sea. When affairs had become thus critical, local guides revealed to the English a way across the estuary, where a white band of chalk, called the Blanche taque, cropping out of the sandy river bed, forms a hard, practicable ford from one bank of the river to the other. "Then," writes an official reporter, "the King of England and his host took that water of the Somme, where never ...
— The History of England - From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) • T.F. Tout
... the depths of woods, are the most delicious retreats during the fiery noons of July. The great azure campanulas, or Canterbury bells, are there in bloom, and, in chalk or limestone districts, there are also now to be found those curiosities, the bee and fly orchises. The soul of John Evelyn well might envy us a ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, Issue 262, July 7, 1827 • Various
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