Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge,… — Benjamin Banneker Copy Share Image
Our small ears never had such a workout as on the Fourth of July, hearing not only our own bursting crackers but… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
I know their game. First, the traders and the missionaries: then the ambassadors: then the cannon. It's better to go straight to… — Tewodros II Copy Share Image
Words were dangerous when loosed. They were more powerful than cannon and more unpredictable than storms. They could turn men’s heads inside… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel."… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit.… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
You are absolute angels of the first order. If I were Pope, I’d canonize you.” “The Pope would probably love to turn… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of… — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
bubbles of false opinion will last whole ages, and deceive whole generations, till they are broken by some powerful breath, and even… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
