"Emporium" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of which was afterwards built the city of Batavia, the emporium at the Dutch trade in the east, now ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VII • Robert Kerr
... one I caught up the threads of certain other peculiar Boston interests, and by careful reading of the Transcript was enabled to vibrate in full harmony with the local hymn of gratitude. New York became a mere emporium, a town without a library, a city without a first class orchestra, the home of a few commercial painters and several journalistic poets! Chicago was a huge dirty town on the middle border. Washington a vulgar political camp—only ...
— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland
... produce riots and disorders was a main part of the charge, and was laid, in order to give the court jurisdiction chiefly against libels. The offence was new. Learning of their own upon the subject they had none, and they were obliged to resort to the only emporium where it was to be had, the Roman Law. After the Star Chamber was abolished in the 10th of Charles I. its authority indeed ceased, but its maxims subsisted and survived it. The spirit of the Star Chamber has transmigrated and lived again, and Westminster Hall was ...
— Thoughts on the Present Discontents - and Speeches • Edmund Burke
... Chaplain is remarkable. His meek, luminous brown eyes blaze with indignation. He is aflame, from the edge of his collar—a patent clerical guillotine of washable xylonite, purchased at a famous travellers' emporium in the Strand—to the thin, silky rings of dark hair that are wearing from his high, pale temples. He says, and stutters angrily ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... Wrenn, what's the matter with you? The Bronx Emporium order for May Day novelties was filled twice, ...
— Our Mr. Wrenn - The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man • Sinclair Lewis
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