"Windsor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all these posts are dependent upon the former for provisions and supplies of every kind. I am less certain of the enemy's force in Nova Scotia than elsewhere. The number here given is not from recent intelligence, or strengthened according to circumstances. Cumberland, Windsor, Annapolis, St John's River, &c, are posts dependent upon Halifax, and included in the three thousand and five hundred men ...
— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. XI • Various
... wealth and taste, such as it was, could bring together." Gordon notes, "This palace, with its surrounding buildings, over two hundred in number, covered an area eight by ten miles in extent." He says, "it makes one's heart burn to see such beauty destroyed; it was as if Windsor Palace, South Kensington Museum, and British Museum, all in one, were in flames: you can scarcely imagine the beauty and magnificence of the things ...
— General Gordon - Saint and Soldier • J. Wardle
... he dropped upon a rickety Windsor chair, that creaked under his weight; "and I did not even ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon
... we all have been a bit homesick, and I can see no shame in confessing it. Besides, after one gets out of his windsor-tie stage of life, these especial holidays seem to mark time so. One thinks back to this time, last year; and one has to wonder a bit where he will be, a year from now. A good deal can happen in ...
— On the Firing Line • Anna Chapin Ray and Hamilton Brock Fuller
... defer the gratification of his vengeance on the man he hated more than any personage in England. He pretended to restore Anselm to favor. "Bygones should be bygones." The King and the Archbishop sat at dinner at Windsor with friends and nobles, while an ironical courtier pleasantly quoted the Psalmist, "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume V • John Lord
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