"By rights" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... listlessness, carelessness, lack of thrift and energy, and waste, were the factors most potent in keeping the farmer poor and unreasonably harassed by the obligations of life. The men who cultivate the soil create incalculable wealth; by rights they should be the nation's healthiest, happiest, most comfortable, and most independent citizens. Their lives should be long, free from care and distress, and no more strenuous than is wholesome. That this ...
— The Fat of the Land - The Story of an American Farm • John Williams Streeter
... the bulk of the North American continent. Essentially chivalrous, the French explorer proved the knight-errant among American discoverers. By the treaty of 1803, Napoleon ceded 1,171,931 square miles to the United States, a tract eight times as large as France itself. France, by rights acquired by discoveries, owned about two-thirds of the continent of North America, and to-day owns not so much as would supply burial room for a child! Saxon as I am, I confess I can not go to Montreal or Quebec, nor look upon the regal St. Lawrence, without ...
— A Hero and Some Other Folks • William A. Quayle
... much of a sprain. Interfered with my training a good bit, though. I ought by rights to be well under eleven stone. ...
— The Pothunters • P. G. Wodehouse
... she was about to mount her horse again, the Waiting-woman said, "By rights your horse belongs to me; this ...
— Children's Hour with Red Riding Hood and Other Stories • Watty Piper
... Calvin. "Miss Hands, you ought to have this cup by rights; and yet I'm pleased to have it, for I thought a sight of the boys' Ma, and she knowed it. She was always good to me, if she did call me a rover; always good to me she was, from the time I was knee high to a grasshopper. The boys was bigger than me in ...
— The Wooing of Calvin Parks • Laura E. Richards
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