"Almanac" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... which are the lucky ones?' said Nina, sighing. 'They are certainly not put down in the Irish almanac. By the way, is not ...
— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever
... his instructions to the dot, for I had come to believe that what Kit Carson said was law and gospel, and what he didn't know would not fill a book as large as Ayer's Almanac. I was right, too, so far as plainscraft ...
— Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains • William F. Drannan
... twenty leagues round was papered with these legends, a fresh speculation must be discovered; the Alsacien could not go beyond the limits of the department. Eve, turning over everything in the whole printing house, had found a collection of figures for printing a "Shepherd's Calendar," a kind of almanac meant for those who cannot read, letterpress being replaced by symbols, signs, and pictures in colored inks, red, black and blue. Old Sechard, who could neither read nor write himself, had made a good deal of money at one time by bringing out an almanac in hieroglyph. ...
— Eve and David • Honore de Balzac
... fix a day and ask them. If you will come to me after dinner with an almanac we will arrange it. Of course you will invite that ...
— The Duke's Children • Anthony Trollope
... clothed with the pomp of sunshine? Are all Bewick's birds, and beasts, and fishes visible to your eyes in the woods, wastes, and waves of the clouds? And know ye what aerial condor, dragon, and whale, respectively portend? Are the Fata Morgana as familiar to you as the Aberdeen Almanac? When a mile-square hover of crows darkens air and earth, or settling loads every tree with sable fruitage, are you your own augur, equally as when one raven lifts up his hoary blackness from a stone, and sails sullenly off with a croak, that gets ...
— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson
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