"Christmas gift" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said John, "I want to get done with this mole business and do anything in the open—Oh, here comes Blake! You know our clergyman from home, the Rev. Mr. Rivers? No! Well, then I make you the Christmas gift of a pleasant acquaintance. Sit down, there is some turkey ...
— Westways • S. Weir Mitchell
... heaped with goodies, Mary realized that this would be a May day party unlike any she had ever before seen. Six burros were kept ever ready in the corral and these were caught and saddled for the children. Mother rode her Indian pony, a Christmas gift from Father. As they passed the mill and wound up the trail by the main shaft of the mine, the men were changing shift and as the cage swung up to the surface the miners called a cheery good-bye, for they were very fond ...
— Little Tales of The Desert • Ethel Twycross Foster
... show how joyfully Asako accepted this proposal. Besides, she had heard from Geoffrey. A letter had arrived thanking her for her Christmas gift. ...
— Kimono • John Paris
... given below was written by a Sioux Indian boy, whose entire education has been gained in the three years he has now been at Hampton Institute. It was written in acknowledgment of a Christmas gift of ten dollars for the purchase of books for himself, sent by a Sabbath-school class of boys ...
— The American Missionary—Volume 39, No. 02, February, 1885 • Various
... dinner, Polly led her mother to John's room. "Maw, I'm going to use those new shades I bought for your Christmas gift, and put them at the ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... great pack-basket had been placed in the middle of the floor, and the Trapper was busy overhauling his stores to see what he could find that would make a fitting Christmas gift for those he was to visit on the morrow. A canister of tea was first deposited on the table, and, after he had smelled of it, and placed a few grains of it on his tongue, like a connoisseur, he proceeded to pour ...
— Holiday Tales - Christmas in the Adirondacks • W. H. H. Murray
... "Ten Short Stories for Children" which went to a second edition in 1832; in 1828, "Meditations for Private Hours," which went through several editions; in 1829, two little books, "The Garland of Flora," and "The Pearl, a Christmas Gift." Occasional brief engagements in teaching are ...
— Daughters of the Puritans - A Group of Brief Biographies • Seth Curtis Beach
... upon the leather case containing the short rifle presented to him as a Christmas gift, and the cartridge boxes lying between him and Chamis, so near that it would suffice for him to stretch out ...
— In Desert and Wilderness • Henryk Sienkiewicz
... like Hamlet, Without the Hamlet part; The home is but a house, dear, Till you supply the heart. The Christmas gift I long for You need not toil to buy; O, give me back one thing I lack: The love-light ...
— Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes • J. M. Judy
... I tell you, it is pretty heavy, too," the manikin said, proudly. "It 's a Christmas gift." He started on, and the General ...
— The Christmas Peace - 1908 • Thomas Nelson Page
... 'and weakly delusive. Hazel, you must give me a Christmas gift, and you must let it be that thing which of all others ...
— The Gold of Chickaree • Susan Warner
... Herbert Dorrance would, when the forms he considered indispensable to regular courtship had been gone through with, ask her to marry him, and coolly taken her resolution to accept him. This morning, on the reception of a handsome Christmas gift from him, and discovering in his actions something more pointed than his customary punctilious devoirs, and in his didacticism the outermost of the closing circle of pursuit she had furthermore concluded that his happy thought was to celebrate the festal season by his betrothment. ...
— At Last • Marion Harland
... to take it the next Christmas. When the Homeburg storekeepers have had a bad season, it's up to us to go back the next year and face the same old line of junk, knowing it will be there until we give in and buy it. There are two Christmas gift edition copies of Trilby still on sale in Homeburg, and Sam Green the druggist has had a ten-dollar manicure set on sale for ten years now. He won't get another, either. Says he was stung on the first one, and he's going to get his money back before he goes in any deeper. It goes ...
— Homeburg Memories • George Helgesen Fitch
... "It is your Christmas gift, Issachar. It is a cross. Curse not! It cannot harm you nor me. Dip again, and bring me a few oysters, or my ...
— Tales of the Chesapeake • George Alfred Townsend
... his Christmas money with him, and entering a drug store he bought a cup of hot chocolate, that warmed him considerably. After this he selected a bottle of cologne and a box of chocolates as a Christmas gift ...
— The Rover Boys In The Mountains • Arthur M. Winfield
... poor mother looked at the little shoe, she thought how unhappy her dear child would be to find it empty in the morning, and wished that she had something, even if it were only a tiny cake, for a Christmas gift. There was nothing in the house but a few sous, and these must be saved ...
— Good Stories For Great Holidays - Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the - Children's Own Reading • Frances Jenkins Olcott
... Christmas when he came, Our little boy beneath the sod; And brighter burned the Christmas flame, And merrier sped the Christmas game, Because within the house there lay A shape as tiny as a fay— The Christmas gift of God! In wreaths and garlands on the walls The holly hung its ruby balls, The mistletoe its pearls; And a Christmas tree's fantastic fruits Woke laughter like a choir of flutes From happy boys ...
— Poems of Henry Timrod • Henry Timrod
... felt a beast—as if I were taking her money. Whenever I was on one colour, she seemed always to choose a number on the other. I've got enough money to buy my villa now, thanks to this night's work; so I shall consider it a Christmas gift ...
— The Guests Of Hercules • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... may look for the new Mrs. Macloud in time for the holidays, I presume.—Sort of a Christmas gift?" ...
— In Her Own Right • John Reed Scott
... muttered under her breath. "From your father," she continued, speaking to herself, "a Christmas gift. How lovely!" ...
— The Doctor's Daughter • "Vera"
... thank'ee too,' said Mr. Hardesty, re-seating himself. Miss Peggy bade her guest a very good night, and, threatening to catch him for a Christmas gift next morning, disappeared up the stairs and locked the door after her. Tom watched her retreating figure until she disappeared, and then addressed ...
— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 - Volume 23, Number 1 • Various
... Kenesaw Mountain. Johnston at Bay. Hood in Command. Assumes the Offensive. Sherman in Atlanta. Losses. Hood to Alabama and Tennessee. The March to the Sea. Living on the Country. Sherman at Savannah. Hardee Evacuates. A Christmas Gift. The Blow to the Confederacy. Thomas Crushes Hood. Sherman Marches North. Charleston Falls. Columbia. Johnston Routed at Bentonville. Sherman Master ...
— History of the United States, Volume 4 • E. Benjamin Andrews |
