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More "Foursquare" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of camp-followers chased at least a dozen snakes out of corners, and slew them in the open, as a preliminary to further investigation. There were kas-kas mats on the foursquare floors, and each of these, when lifted, disclosed a swarm of scorpions that had to be exterminated before a man dared move his possessions in. The once white calico ceilings moved suggestively where rats and snakes chased one another, or else hunted some third species of vermin; and ...
— Rung Ho! • Talbot Mundy
... was an imposing building in the Georgian style. It stood, foursquare, in the midst of about nine acres of land. For the greater part of its existence, I learned later, it had been the private home of a family of the name of Boone, and in its early days the estate had been considerable. But ...
— The Little Nugget • P.G. Wodehouse
... stands foursquare for fundamental Christian beliefs. He has also a good understanding of views and opinions contrary to his own, and demonstrates his ability to measure and mark the ...
— God's Plan with Men • T. T. (Thomas Theodore) Martin
... has dissolved—but in tears only. It stands foursquare, more solid to-day than any pyramid in Egypt. This people are neither wasted, nor daunted, nor disordered. Men hate slavery and love liberty with stronger hate and love to-day than ever before. The government ...
— The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) • Various
... magnificence. For centuries there had always been a Riego living in this fortress-like palace, ruling this portion of the New World with the whole majesty of his race. And I thought of the long, loop-holed, buttressed walls that this abode of noble adventurers presented foursquare to the night outside, standing there by the seashore like a tomb of warlike glories. They built their houses thus, centuries ago, when the bands of buccaneers, indomitable and atrocious, had haunted their conquest with a ...
— Romance • Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
... from the throne of the Lamb, clear as crystal, with the widespreading tree of life on either side of the river. And supreme above all, Jesus Himself, "the King in His beauty," without whom there would be no glory even in that city foursquare; "for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb ...
— Our Day - In the Light of Prophecy • W. A. Spicer
... in amazement, trying to determine what was wrong with it. He recalled how it had always stood, foursquare, a solid piece of ...
— The Street That Wasn't There • Clifford Donald Simak
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