"Paige" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... by a green carryall coming down the road drawn by some army horses, hay-fed and round. The passengers were a Mr. Paige, a correspondent of the Tribune, and his friend, a Mr. Baldwin from Cleveland. I had met them in one of my trips between Hilton Head and Beaufort, and after answering several questions asked them to come and see me, ...
— Letters from Port Royal - Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) • Various
... though we brekfists and t's at the same board, I treat with a deal of hot-tar, and shoes her how much I dispeyses her supper-silly-ous conduck. Besides these indyvidules, there's another dome-stick, wich I wish to menshun particlar—wich is the paige Theodore, that, as the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
... about English Criticism. (No important literary matters this year. Mark Twain engaged promoting the Paige typesetting-machine.) ...
— Widger's Quotations from Albert Bigelow Paine on Mark Twain • David Widger
... candidacy. There were forty or fifty present. Mr. Webster was expected to speak to them, but his daughter Julia was very ill. He sent them a message that he would see them at the house in Summer Street where he was staying. So when the dinner was half over, the party walked in procession to Mr. Paige's house. As Judge Hoar described the interview, he seemed very glum. He shook hands with the young men as they passed by him, but said very little. There was an awkward silence, and they were about to take leave, when the absurdity of the position struck Mr. Hoar, who was the ...
— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar |
