"Maine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from Maine to the West. It grows best in pine and hemlock woods, but sometimes found in mixed woods. It is found in July ...
— The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise - Its Habitat and its Time of Growth • M. E. Hard
... Fouche is a long-headed man. He realized that, since he could not defeat us, he must dishonor us. He has organized false companies of Jehu, which he has set loose in Maine and Anjou, who don't stop at the government money, but pillage and rob travellers, and invade the chateaux and farms by night, and roast the feet of the owners to make them tell where their treasure ...
— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas
... of M. le Duc, controlled the destinies of France, and who committed suicide when that amusement was denied her. During her early middle age Madame du Deffand was one of the principal figures in the palace of Sceaux, where the Duchesse du Maine, the grand-daughter of the great Conde and the daughter-in-law of Louis XIV., kept up for many years an almost royal state among the most distinguished men and women of the time. It was at Sceaux, with its endless succession of entertainments and conversations—supper-parties and water-parties, ...
— Books and Characters - French and English • Lytton Strachey
... of the Duke du Maine, a natural son, but legitimated, of Lewis the Fourteenth, by Madame ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole
... this, most are of another opinion, that the earth standeth still without all motion, rest rather befittinge so heauy and dull a body then motion. The maine reason brought to establish it is this. Let a stone bee throwne downe out of the ayre from (W:) if the earth stand still, it is manifest it will fall vpon (X) iust vnder it; as wee see it doth by common experience, ...
— A Briefe Introduction to Geography • William Pemble
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