"Baum" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Jourdan, of Avignon, surnamed Coupe-tete G R Grouvelle, agent for Denmark, and registrar of the convention at the time of the King's death P R Le Flotte, minister of the republic I R Du Fourney, a furious jacobin P L Marquis de Choiseul la Baum, and his steward G L De Willerval, knight of St. Louis G D Count de Levis, colonel, ex-constituent G R Picquet, aide-de-camp to General La Fayette G D The two Tassins, famous bankers in Paris G L Count de Sombreuil, governor of the invalids, and his son G L The Prince de Rohan Rochefort ...
— Historical Epochs of the French Revolution • H. Goudemetz
... these supplies, he could get for himself what he stood sorely in need of, while at the same time the loss would cripple Lincoln and perhaps oblige him to retire from the scene. Accordingly 1000 Germans were sent out, in two detachments under colonels Baum and Breymann, to capture the village. But instead they were captured themselves. Baum was first outmanoeuvred, surrounded, and forced to surrender by John Stark, after a hot fight, in which Baum was mortally wounded. Then Breymann was put to flight ...
— The War of Independence • John Fiske
... the front part of Glinda of Oz, the Publishers told you that when Mr. Baum went away from this world he left behind some unfinished notes about the Princess Ozma and Dorothy and the jolly people of the Wonderful Land of Oz. The Publishers promised that they would try to put these notes together into a new Oz ...
— The Royal Book of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... Sunday (the 4th Sunday in Lent), women with mourning veils carry a straw figure, dressed in a man's shirt, to the bounds of the next village, where they tear the effigy to pieces, hang the shirt on a young and flourishing tree, "schone Wald-Baum," which they proceed to cut down, and carry home with every sign of rejoicing. Here evidently the young tree is regarded as a rejuvenation of the person represented in the first instance ...
— From Ritual to Romance • Jessie L. Weston |
