"Watering place" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tribe of Tarzan lingered in the vicinity of the beach because their new chief hated the thought of leaving the treasured contents of the little cabin forever. But when one day a member of the tribe discovered the blacks in great numbers on the banks of a little stream that had been their watering place for generations, and in the act of clearing a space in the jungle and erecting many huts, the apes would remain no longer; and so Tarzan led them inland for many marches to a spot as yet undefiled by the ...
— Tarzan of the Apes • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... friends, one of them being the first Lord St. Vincent, the other being Sir John Colbourne, afterward Lord Seaton. But though elaborate plans were subsequently put before him for turning the surrounding slopes into a pretentious and symmetrical watering place, the construction of no new residence was permitted by himself or his successor till somewhere about the year 1865, when a building lease was granted by the latter to one of his ...
— Memoirs of Life and Literature • W. H. Mallock
... fault—Milly, his poor wife, had become again terribly real to him. It was almost as if he felt her to be alive, say, in the next room—lying, as she had been wont to lie, listening for his footsteps, in the little watering place where they had spent the last ...
— From Out the Vasty Deep • Mrs. Belloc Lowndes
... stop to talk," answered the grandson as he caught up the old moccasins the old lady had doffed, and put them on. He threw a robe over his shoulders, slipped through the door, and hastened to the watering place. The girl had just arrived ...
— Myths and Legends of the Sioux • Marie L. McLaughlin
... said John Anderson, to his wife who had been asking for money for a trip to a fashionable watering place. "You will have to spend the ...
— Sowing and Reaping • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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