"Marquee" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 14.—Great day; this way: inspected this afternoon immense new marquee tent put up for hospital; glorious within; charmed; mindful of our sufferings when trying to hold and attend Divine service; idea spontaneous; immediate action; bee-line to Superintendent's tent; psychological moment; agreeable. Hurrah! Strike iron while hot; enlist men ...
— Woman's Endurance • A.D.L.
... un homme dont je fais cas, qui a d'excellentes qualites; et j'aime encore mieux que ce soit lui qu'un autre. Mais ne te trompes-tu pas aussi? Il ne t'aura peut-etre parle que d'estime: il en a beaucoup pour moi, beaucoup; il me l'a marquee en mille occasions ...
— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
... hospitality. His planting interest was judiciously managed, and his property increased yearly. In the summer months he made excursions, into the upper country almost every year, for the benefit of his health. In these journeys he loved to renew former recollections. He had retained his marquee, camp bed and cooking utensils, and he always travelled as he had done in his brigade. To his wife nothing could be more pleasant, and she has often recounted these jaunts to her friends with delight. The old pot, kettle and frying-pan, tin plates, knives ...
— A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion • William Dobein James
... nose—they were a set of "duffers," in fact. As for Dickens knowing nothing about cricket, as Mr. Lang contends, I can say, that he was always interested in it. I myself have seen him sit the whole day in a marquee, during a match got up by himself at Gads Hill, marking (or "notching") in the most admirable manner. Anything he did or described, he did and described according to the ...
— Pickwickian Studies • Percy Fitzgerald |
