"Americana" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tranquility, calm &c. (quiescence) 265; truce, peace treaty, accord &c. (pacification) 723; peace pipe, pipe of peace, calumet of peace. piping time of peace, quiet life; neutrality. [symbol of peace] dove of peace, white dove. [person who favors peace] dove. pax Romana[Lat]; Pax Americana[Lat][obs3]. V. be at peace; keep the peace &c. (concord) 714. make peace &c. 723. Adj. pacific; peaceable, peaceful; calm, tranquil, untroubled, halcyon; bloodless; neutral. dovish Phr. the storm blown over; the lion lies down with the lamb; "all quiet on the Potomac"; paritur pax ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... as it was supposed—some stray personage who had mysteriously found his way to the valley and settled in it long ago. Such instances were rare in the settlements of New Mexico; but what was rarer still, in this case the "Americano" was accompanied by an "Americana"—the mother of Carlos—and the same old woman who attracted so much attention on the day of San Juan. All the efforts of the padres to christianise either one or the other had been in vain. The old trapper—for such he was—died as he ...
— The White Chief - A Legend of Northern Mexico • Mayne Reid
... possession, of "An Oration, pronounced at Hanover, New Hampshire, the Fourth Day of July, 1800," by Daniel Webster. This oration was delivered when the future statesman was in his eighteenth year. It cannot fail to interest every reader of the Magazine, and will be a treat to every collector of Americana. ...
— The Bay State Monthly - Volume 1, Issue 4 - April, 1884 • Various
... 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 ...
— History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William Hickling Prescott
... sinensis! Aristolochia Clematitis. Blitum sp. Chenopodium sp. Rumex sp. Salix cinerea. *Hyacinthus orientalis! Lilium bulbiferum! croceum, et sp. alix, pl. Tulipa, sp. Polygonatum anceps. Fritillaria imperalis! Agave americana. Iris versicolor. sambucina. Crocus, sp. Colchicum autumnale. Narcissus incomparabilis! Tazetta. biflorus. chrysanthus. *Ophrys aranifera! Calanthe vestita! Oncidium bicolor. ornithorhyncum. ...
— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters
... Americana, vol. ii., p. 13. This speech was made by Winthrop; he was accused of having committed arbitrary actions during his magistracy, but after having made the speech of which the above is a fragment, ...
— American Institutions and Their Influence • Alexis de Tocqueville et al
... broadside, issued in London, ca. 1750, advertising "Dr. Bateman's Drops," is preserved in the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, New York. Later reprints of this same broadside are preserved in the private collection of Samuel Aker, Albany, New York, and ...
— Old English Patent Medicines in America • George B. Griffenhagen
... corn, referred to in the text, or, more properly speaking, "the ceremony of thanksgiving for the first fruits of the earth," is described by Col. Johnston in vol. i. p. 286, of the Archaelogia Americana. It does not differ materially from their common feasts. The principal ceremonies ...
— Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) • James Athearn Jones
... sculptured monuments described by Maudslay in Godman and Salvin's "Biologia Centrali-Americana," Archaeology, Plate 46, representing "Stela D," with two serpents in the places occupied by the Indian elephants in Stela B—concerning which see Nature, November 25, 1915. To one of these intertwined serpents is attached a cow-headed human daemon. Compare also the Chiriqui ...
— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith
... Hamlin: "She is entitled Dorothy (first edition), Chicago, 1890, 16mo, handsome frontispiece and beautiful type; I have had her handsomely bound, and I regard her as a priceless specimen of Americana." (Applause.) ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson
... rounded phrase: "'The Isle of Pines' was a small 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 Gospel in ...
— The Isle Of Pines (1668) - and, An Essay in Bibliography by W. C. Ford • Henry Neville
... species of this genus (Fraxinus Americana), and they occupy an important place as valuable timber trees. This is especially true of the white ash, more commonly called the American ash. Of this tree the late Arthur Bryant, Sr., said in his Book on Trees: "It is ...
— The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 - A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside • Various
... Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia Americana on public lands, national forests, and other topics referred to in ...
— Community Civics and Rural Life • Arthur W. Dunn |
