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"Americana" Quotes from Famous Books

... sees in Cuba and in continental Spain, as regards the signs which traders place over their doors. The individual's name is never given, but the merchant adopts some fancy one to designate his place of business. Seeing the title "El Congreso Americana," "The American Congress," we were a little disconcerted, on investigation, to find that it was the sign of a large and popular bar-room. Near by was another sign reading thus: "El Diablo," that is, "The Devil." This was over a pulque shop, which seemed to be appropriately ...

— Aztec Land • Maturin M. Ballou

... The Influence of Laurence Sterne upon German Literature. In Americana Germanica. ...

— Laurence Sterne in Germany • Harvey Waterman Thayer

... 'reasoning men', and how this monstrous superstition still prevails in Venezuela, see the charming book of S. Perez Triana, 'De Bogota al Atlantico', etc., pp. 156-158 (Paris: Impresa Sud Americana). A really interesting book of travels, without cant, and without an eye on the public. Strange to relate, the author seems to have killed ...

— A Vanished Arcadia, • R. B. Cunninghame Graham

... pamphlet of the Baron Munchausen order, which in its day passed through several editions in England and on the Continent,"{2} a description which would fit a hundred titles of the period. In July, 1917, Sotheby announced the sale of a portion of the Americana collected by [6]"Bishop White Kennett (1660-1728) and given by him to the Society for the Propagation of the ...

— The Isle Of Pines (1668) - and, An Essay in Bibliography by W. C. Ford • Henry Neville

... climate of the table-land furnished them with the maguey, agave Americana, many of the extraordinary qualities of which they comprehended, though not its most important one of affording a material for paper. Tobacco, too, was among the products of this elevated region. Yet the Peruvians differed ...

— History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William Hickling Prescott

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