"Am" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a gres de Flandre over there, who pretends to be a Hans Kraut, as I am," said the jug with the silver hat, pointing with his handle to a jug that lay prone on its side in a corner. "He has copied me as exactly as it is given to moderns to copy us. Almost he might be mistaken for me. But yet what a difference there is! How crude are his blues! how evidently ...
— Famous Stories Every Child Should Know • Various
... and I am so grateful," Helen answered assuringly, noticing guiltily that there were oil and red dust, besides many somber smears, upon the operator's face and jacket, while the skin was missing ...
— Thurston of Orchard Valley • Harold Bindloss
... 1847 deprived the good citizens of Adelaide of these necessary means of communication with the country on the right bank of the Torrens, by the injury it did to them. The Company's bridge suffered less than any other, but was so shaken as to be impassable for several days. Aware, as I am, of the general character of the Australian streams, and seeing no reason why the Torrens should differ from others, taking into consideration, too, the reports of the natives as to the height to which the river had been known to rise in ...
— Expedition into Central Australia • Charles Sturt
... are others, lesser but more human, the principal of whom is Dbau. Dbau lived on a small mountain in view of the present site of Verula. It is said that, before beginning his trip up the Agsan, he sent word to the inhabitants of the Umaam River that on a certain day he would pass through the lake region and that all rice should be carefully protected against the ...
— The Manbos of Mindano - Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir • John M. Garvan
... Good-day! Good-day, Amedee! You come at an unlucky time. It is shipping-day with us. I am in a great hurry—Eh! Monsieur Combier, by your leave, Monsieur Combier! Do not forget the three dozen of the Apparition de la Salette in stucco for Grenoble, with twenty-five per cent. reduction ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
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