"Independence Day" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... morning of Independence Day Sammy stood at the door of the farmhouse arrayed in his Sunday best. His folks were there to see ...
— Randy of the River - The Adventures of a Young Deckhand • Horatio Alger Jr.
... Independence Day dawned bright and clear and throughout the town of Fairview there was the usual amount of noise. During the morning Snap heard from another lad how Ham and Carl ...
— Young Hunters of the Lake • Ralph Bonehill
... said Winthrop, "You get your holidays mixed up. We've come out here to celebrate Independence Day. ...
— Patty's Summer Days • Carolyn Wells
... INDEPENDENCE DAY, a holiday observed throughout the United States annually on the 4th of July in celebration of the Declaration of Independence in ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... It is notorious that from about 1890 such marriages were denounced from the Boer pulpits and on the occasions of the Independence day anniversaries ...
— Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) - The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked • C. H. Thomas
... campaign for the election of farmers' candidates in the county elections in the fall. So many political meetings were held on Independence Day in 1873 that it was referred to as the "Farmers' Fourth of July." This had always been the greatest day of the farmer's year, for it meant opportunity for social and intellectual enjoyment in the picnics and celebrations which brought neighbors together in hilarious ...
— The Agrarian Crusade - A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics • Solon J. Buck
... tri-county conventions of teachers, speaking on woman suffrage and distributing 5,000 leaflets. Three women attended the hearing before the House Judiciary Committee of Congress in the interest of the Federal Amendment, Mrs. Funck addressing the committee. Independence Day was observed by a parade and street speaking by Mrs. ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI • Various
... utters, with loud and hurried and anxious voice, its alarm. Anon, heavy with grief, it seems to enter, as a sympathising friend, into the very heart experiences of bereaved and weeping mourners. And when the rolling year brings round Independence day, all the fluctuations of feeling which mature and soften others are forgotten, and it trembles with the excitement of the occasion, and laughs, and shouts, and capers merrily in its homely belfry, as though it were a ...
— Laicus - The experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish • Lyman Abbott
... received a sum of money for his personal expenses from the Norwegian colony of the River Plate, and we were invited to their dinner on Independence Day, May 17. ...
— The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 • Roald Amundsen
... of the day was lost to America by the death of James Monroe. He expired on July 4, the third President to die on Independence Day. Monroe was born in Virginia in 1758. He was educated at William and Mary College, studied law under Jefferson, and became a member of the Continental Congress at twenty-five. He saw his first military service in the War of the Revolution. Appointed Minister to France in 1794 he was recalled ...
— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson |
