"Moline" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... skies, gives me the blues. This is a double anniversary with me. It was on the 8th of September that I received my first order for sea-service (1826); and it was on the 8th of September that Norton's Division fought the battle of Moline del Ray (1847). What a history of the United States has to be written since the last event! How much of human weakness and wickedness and folly has been developed in these years! But the North will receive their reward, under ...
— The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter • Raphael Semmes
... M. Certain said, "you have made no mistake, I hope." "I don't think I have," replied Colbert. "But I think you have," said the porter. "Do you think so, Moline? Do you think so?" cried the old man, throwing down the cloth and examining the tickets. "But, indeed, I might have expected this; the little rascal could not do otherwise. But I warn you, if you have made a mistake, you shall go to M. Cenani to ask of him the surplus money; and if he ...
— Anecdotes for Boys • Harvey Newcomb |
