"Sandman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ready, all her silken sails are spread, And the breeze is gently blowing to the fairy port of Bed, And the fairy's captain's waiting while the busy sandman flies With the silver dust of ...
— The Path to Home • Edgar A. Guest
... in that way, but by no means all. The child who writes them frequently transcends herself, but her thoughts for the most part are those proper to every imaginative child. Fairies play a large role in her fancies, and so does the sandman. There are kings, and princesses, and golden wings, and there are reminiscences of story-books, and hints of pictures that have pleased her. After all, that is the way we all make our poems, but the ...
— Poems By a Little Girl • Hilda Conkling
... late, and tried to see The Sandman passing close to me— I've been as still as still ...
— Dew Drops - Volume 37, No. 18, May 3, 1914 • Various
... unanswered. The stars twinkled overhead, the sandman was abroad, curfew sounded through the dunes, and all ...
— Wells Brothers • Andy Adams
... to go down to the shore, and wait a little distance from the two boats till you and I join them. Tell them all to be hungry. Your name is Mr. Balker, the mate of the Rattler, the blockade-runner from which we escaped in a whaleboat. My name is Jerry Sandman, the second mate, for the want of a better. Tell them not to forget any ...
— A Victorious Union - SERIES: The Blue and the Gray—Afloat • Oliver Optic
... "Your account reminds me of a rock excavation of great extent with turns and windings on the old time 'Way to the Gallows,' in Nottingham, where a number of cave-dwellings existed down to a century ago. The last tenant was a sandman who stabled his ass in the cave behind. He passed the greater part of his life in selling sand about the town, carrying it in a sack across the back of his ass. Time wore him out, and he had to enter the workhouse. His cave ...
— Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe • Sabine Baring-Gould
... to get ready to go and Cissy tucked in the ball and the spades and buckets and it was high time too because the sandman was on his way for Master Boardman junior. And Cissy told him too that billy winks was coming and that baby was to go deedaw and baby looked just too ducky, laughing up out of his gleeful eyes, ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... partnership of some thirteen or fourteen years, they separated, the division of fairly won spoil accruing to each was not less than L.30,000. Within the space of fourteen years say, industry had created out of nothing the incredible sum of L.90,000. During his travels, like Jemmy the sandman, for orders, Mr Cobden became initiated into the science of "spouting;" he became the oracle and orator of bars and travellers' rooms; the observed of all observers, from the gentlemen of the road down ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 • Various
... at bedtime stories has met with such approval that this second book of "Sandman" tales has been issued for scores of eager children. Life on the farm, and out-of-doors, is portrayed in his inimitable manner, and many a little one will hail the bedtime season as ...
— The Little Colonel's House Party • Annie Fellows Johnston
... bathroom lower-power lamps, or the "hylo," which may be alternated from one- to sixteen-candle power, will prove an economy. The "hylo" is also useful in bedrooms where children are put to sleep, affording sufficient light to daunt the hobgoblins without discouraging the approach of the sandman. Some persons cannot sleep without a light; for them, and for the sick room, the low-power light is eminently preferable to the best of ...
— The Complete Home • Various
... fireman!" laughed Mr. Bobbsey. "But now I think you're getting sleepy. Your row on the lake made the sandman come around earlier than usual I guess. ...
— The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island • Laura Lee Hope
... like to dream my own dreams, Instead of dreaming those The silly sandman brings along Like ...
— Songs for Parents • John Farrar |
