"Life story" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... THE WORLD. No plot. It's a home life story, a conversation. A man is telling a woman that he is just bored stiff ...
— The Harlequinade - An Excursion • Dion Clayton Calthrop and Granville Barker
... cleared a side table where Davy, in his high chair, could jot down the items that he would use in his talk. It was while he was thus engaged of afternoons and evenings that Mrs. Gillis heard the life story of the only midget she had ...
— David Lannarck, Midget - An Adventure Story • George S. Harney
... volume begins with part of the life story of Joseph Jefferson, chief of American comedians. Then we are privileged to read a few personal letters from Edwin Booth, the acknowledged king of the tragic stage. He is followed by the queen in the same dramatic realm, Charlotte Cushman. Next ...
— [19th Century Actor] Autobiographies • George Iles
... song is the cradle-song of death which all men know,-"Swing low, sweet chariot,"—whose bars begin the life story of "Alexander Crummell." Then there is the song of many waters, "Roll, Jordan, roll," a mighty chorus with minor cadences. There were many songs of the fugitive like that which opens "The Wings of Atalanta," and the more familiar "Been a-listening." The seventh is the song of the End ...
— The Souls of Black Folk • W. E. B. Du Bois
... Here is the life story of Robert F. Kennedy, the President's "chief trouble-shooter, crisis smoother and selfless rooter" (Look); the man who is "second only to the President in power and influence" (U.S. News and World ...
— The Colors of Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley |
