"Kodiak" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... put up with it if he had to. But, given his choice, he would have much preferred to be afraid of something a little less unpredictable, something he knew a little more about. Something comfortable, like, say, a Bengal tiger or a Kodiak bear. ...
— Unwise Child • Gordon Randall Garrett
... tell of these Shelikof Straits," Fraser remarked. "I bunked with a bear-hunter from Kodiak once, and he said they was certainly some hell in winter." When Emerson made no reply, the fellow's colorless eyes settled upon him with a trace of solicitude, and he resumed: "I'm doggone sorry you lost out, pal, but mebbe something'll turn up yet." Then, seeing that the young man ...
— The Silver Horde • Rex Beach
... Atlantic Ocean Kiev [Chancery] Ukraine Kigali [US Embassy] Rwanda Kingston [US Embassy] Jamaica Kinshasa [US Embassy] Zaire Kirghiziya Kyrgyzstan Kiritimati (Christmas Island) Kiribati Kishinev (Chicsinau) Moldova Kithira Strait Atlantic Ocean Kodiak Island United States Kola Peninsula Russia (Kol'skiy Poluostrov) Kolonia [US Special Office] Micronesia, Federated States of Korea Bay Pacific Ocean Korea, Democratic People's Korea, North Republic of Korea, Republic of Korea, South Korea Strait Pacific Ocean Koror [US Special ...
— The 1992 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... to let a few of their friends in on the island proposition and set out at the head of several bidarkas. According to the story they knocked about up and down the North Pacific from Kodiak to Sitka for several months—but they never found their island. Neither did the natives of later years who went in search of it ...
— Where the Sun Swings North • Barrett Willoughby
... formerly amongst the Mordvin, in central Russia. A case is mentioned of a girl who was sent from home for a time, and on her return given to her brother as his wife.[1685] Langsdorff[1686] reported of the Aleuts on the island of Kodiak, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, that parents and children, brothers ...
— Folkways - A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals • William Graham Sumner |
