"A typical Seville shop reaches far along the……" — Katharine Lee Bates
"A typical Seville shop reaches far along the street front, with many open doors, and a counter running the full length. Here ladies sit in pairs and groups, never singly, to cheapen fans and mantillas, while the smiling salesmen, cigarette in hand, shrug and gesticulate and give back banter for banter as gayly as if it were all a holiday frolic."
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Katharine Lee Bates
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10 Quotes by Katharine Lee Bates
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O beautiful for spacious skies, . . . O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self…
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Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.
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America! America! God shed His grace on thee.
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It is the hour to rend thy chains, The blossom time of souls.
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The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.
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Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching…
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A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian…
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The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.
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Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to…
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