"Ubiquitous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... It is almost ubiquitous,—this perfume of incense. It makes one element of the faint but complex and never-to-be-forgotten odor of the Far East. It haunts the dwelling-house not less than the temple,—the home of the peasant not less than the yashiki of the prince. Shinto shrines, ...
— In Ghostly Japan • Lafcadio Hearn
... "Ubiquitous" should be his name, He's seen so many scenes, But all his soldier friends prefer To call him ...
— Rhymes of the Rookies • W. E. Christian
... the 4th of September, Col. McLeod received information from the ubiquitous Indian that the Queen's father (Lieut.-Gov. Laird) was at Little Bow River, thirty miles north from McLeod, and was accompanied by the "Buffalo Bull" (Major Irvine), and that they would arrive before the sun sank below the western horizon. ...
— The Treaties of Canada with The Indians of Manitoba - and the North-West Territories • Alexander Morris
... the blazing campfire—many a tale of German-like diablerie, in which the white horse played hero. For nearly a century has he figured in the legends of the prairie "mariner"—a counterpart of the Flying Dutchman—the "phantom-ship" of the forecastle. Like this, too, ubiquitous—seen today scouring the sandy plains of the Platte, to-morrow bounding over the broad llanos of Texas, a ...
— The War Trail - The Hunt of the Wild Horse • Mayne Reid
... I was safe here," said Miss Linden. "Faith, I did not suppose ubiquitous people found their way to Pattaquasset. You'll have to run the gauntlet of that man's compliments, child, however, Endy is a pretty ...
— Say and Seal, Volume II • Susan Warner
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