"Pic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... regards the controverted questions of the descent of the modern Roumanians and the foundation of the Principalities, I would direct his attention more especially to the recent publications of Roesler and Pic, the first an Austrian and the second a Slav writer, where he will find those subjects fully and ...
— Roumania Past and Present • James Samuelson
... he climbed the Pic de Sancy, not without difficulty, and visited the higher valleys, the skyey nooks, undiscovered lakes, and peasants' huts about Mont Dore, a country whose stern and wild features are now beginning ...
— The Magic Skin • Honore de Balzac
... permanent abode. Several of his successors in office, however, as well as various ether residents of York, used occasionally to resort to it as a kind of camping ground in the summer time, and it soon came into vogue for pic-nic excursions. Captain John Denison, a well-known resident of Little York, seems to have taken up his quarters in it for a few weeks, but not with any intention of permanently residing there. In. or about the month of June, 1829, the building was wantonly set on fire ...
— Canadian Notabilities, Volume 1 • John Charles Dent
... is the best way of securing one's self from the bodily damages to which all persons who attend pic-nic parties now seem to ...
— Punchinello Vol. 1, No. 21, August 20, 1870 • Various
... Horse Egan, ransacking everybody's valise but his own. He was engaged in making up deficiencies of kit preparatory to a campaign, and in that work he steals best who steals last. "Ah, Mulcahy, you're in good time," he shouted, "We've got the route, and we're off on Thursday for a pic-nic ...
— This is "Part II" of Soldiers Three, we don't have "Part I" • Rudyard Kipling
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