"The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the……" — Henry Villard
"The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations."
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Henry Villard
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11 Quotes by Henry Villard
Henry Villard has 11 quotes on this site.
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General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward…
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He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to…
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I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me.
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No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplicable delay…
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Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon…
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I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot,…
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Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between…
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He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news…
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There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always…
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Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed…
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More Chairs Quotes
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I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about…
— Red Adair
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Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
— Nicholson Baker
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
— James Belushi
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I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions,…
— Ben Bernanke
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When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and…
— Drew Bledsoe
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I am a very lazy man, so, for me, the dream is to be at home on the chair with…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and…
— Malin Akerman
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If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks…
— Lenny Bruce
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own…
— Jackie Chan
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I reached a point towards the end on the old heart where I had trouble getting out of a chair.…
— Dick Cheney
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When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
— Brian Clough
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I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens…
— Barbara Jordan
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