"Periodical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... October. The passage was a long and stormy one; forty days went by before land was seen after it had once been left behind. The ship reached the other side just at the time when the British Channel was alive with vessels of war in consequence of one of the periodical anticipations of invasions from France. It went to London, and stayed for some time there discharging its cargo and taking in new. Cooper embraced the opportunity to see all the sights he could of the great metropolis. "He had a rum time of it ...
— James Fenimore Cooper - American Men of Letters • Thomas R. Lounsbury
... The enormous flight of periodical miscellanies, and of newspapers, must be taken as both the indication and the cause that hundreds of thousands of persons were giving some attention to the matters of general information, where their grandfathers had been, during the intervals of time allowed by their employments, prating, brawling, ...
— An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance • John Foster
... did test their truth for several weeks after the picnic. He was received with kindness and hospitality everywhere; he was taken down into the mines by obliging agents, and was invited to several of the periodical business dinners, called "account-dinners," at which he met shareholders in the mines, and had an opportunity of conversing with men of note and wealth from various parts of the county. He dwelt, during his stay, with old Mr Donnithorne, ...
— Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines • R.M. Ballantyne
... mujer. Fue su madrina Dona Manuela Monchay vecina de la collacion de Sn. Miguel a la que se advirtio el parentesco espiritual y obligaciones y para verdad lo firme.—Antonio Lucena Cura." See La Illustracion Artistica, Barcelona, December 27, 1886, pp. 363-366. Citations from this periodical will hereafter refer to ...
— Legends, Tales and Poems • Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
... judging from the words used in the Cortes, we owe the desperate sortie which delivered him into our hands and reduced Spain to inevitable submission. "The continuance of Cervera's division in Santiago, and its apparent inactivity," stated a leading naval periodical in Madrid, issued two days before the destruction of the squadron, "is causing marked currents of pessimism, and of disaffection towards the navy, especially since the Yankees have succeeded in effecting ...
— Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles • Alfred T. Mahan
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