Boarding house Quote by Bret Harte Download Open image “Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.” — Bret Harte ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boarding house Defense House Rifles Shoulders
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For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies. — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
“Nellie was a good girl, and I think had a sort of quiet respect for old Fagg's unobtrusiveness. But her fancy was already taken… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
“Tommy, you're a good little man, but you can't gamble worth a cent. Don't try it over again.' He then handed him his money… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
“I've had some mighty mean moments afore I kem to this spot,-- Lost on the plains in '50, drowned almost, and shot; But out… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air. — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
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Your voices break and falter in the darkness, Break, falter, and are still. — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning. — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
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It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence. — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces. — Darrell Royal Copy Share Image
“In Britain I found things to be very different. I have yet to meet a single English person who has actually admitted to anti-negro… — E.R. Braithwaite Copy Share Image
My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her… — Michael Smith Copy Share Image
There was so much anti-Irish sentiment not just from other kids at the school I went to in Britain, but also the teachers themselves.… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
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Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We will have to make new arrangements, or revive bygone ones. We may, for another example, see the return of the boarding house. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image