1 "That little wisp looks like it was just the best he could do," she thought, not seeing in his face the cold hard intelligence that was carrying the weight of a new nation.
2 Representing nothing on God's earth now And naught in the waters below it-- As the pledge of nation that's passed away Keep it, dear friend, and show it.
3 It's a poor person and a poor nation that sits down and cries because life isn't precisely what they expected it to be.
4 And such a society, such a nation, is determined by the Gopher Prairies.
5 But though no other nation has ever had any written whaling law, yet the American fishermen have been their own legislators and lawyers in this matter.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish. 6 Cleric had explained to us that 'patria' here meant, not a nation or even a province, but the little rural neighbourhood on the Mincio where the poet was born.
7 The Socialists were organized in every civilized nation; it was an international political party, said Ostrinski, the greatest the world had ever known.
8 But the red Hurons are not deaf; and counsel that is fit for the great men of a nation would make the young warriors drunk.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10 9 When the young man mentioned the artifice he supposed the Indian to have practised on his own nation, the countenance of the listener was veiled in an expression of cautious gravity.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10 10 Listen," repeated the Indian, resuming his earnest attitude; "when his English and French fathers dug up the hatchet, Le Renard struck the war-post of the Mohawks, and went out against his own nation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11 11 He enumerated the warriors of the party; their several merits; their frequent services to the nation; their wounds, and the number of the scalps they had taken.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11 12 Some were rushing eagerly to enjoy the aquatic games of the lake, and others were already toiling their way up the neighboring hills, with the restless curiosity of their nation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 15 13 There are always some honest men in every nation, though heaven knows, too, that they are scarce among the Maquas, to look down an upstart when he brags ag'in the face of reason.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 19 14 Look you, Delaware," she said, snapping her fingers in his face; "your nation is a race of women, and the hoe is better fitted to your hands than the gun.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 15 Delaware," he said, "though one of a nation of women, you have proved yourself a man.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23