"Chico" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shoulders and arms. The fighting ape always reaches out, seizes the arm or wrist of the person to be harmed, drags it up to his mouth and bites savagely. As a home illustration of this method of attack, a chimpanzee named Chico in the Central Park Menagerie once bit a finger from the hand of his keeper. In April, 1921, Mr. Ellis Joseph, the animal dealer, was very severely bitten on his face and neck by his own chimpanzee, so much so in fact that eighteen stitches were required ...
— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday
... arranged to have some small seedling Chinese strain of Juglans regia sent from Chico, California; these were planted in favorable places and survived a few winters. I also planted seeds of the Chinese strains which gave me no better ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting • Various
... Tacuarembo department, which is immensely long, extending right away to the Brazilian frontier. I rode over its narrowest part, however, where it is only about twenty-five miles wide; then, crossing two very curiously named rivers, Rios Salsipuedes Chico and Salsipuedes Grande, which mean Get-out-if-you-can Rivers, Little and Big, I at length reached the termination of my journey in the province or department of Paysandu. The Estancia de la Virgen de los Desamparados, or, to put it very shortly, Vagabonds' Rest, was a ...
— The Purple Land • W. H. Hudson
... the manhood of Boabdil el Chico with the key of his spells," quoth another, stroking his beard; "I would curse him, ...
— Leila, Complete - The Siege of Granada • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... miners emigrated to this place a few years since, many of whom have acquired considerable means and have become influential citizens. Here and in the immediate district, including Real del Monte to the northwest, El Chico to the north, and Santa Rosa to the west, there are nearly three hundred silver mines, all more or less valuable. The most famous is named the Trinidad, which has yielded forty million dollars to its owners in a period of ten years! Real ...
— Aztec Land • Maturin M. Ballou
... Silva Chief Marques Interior of A Rubber-Worker's Hut Joao The Murumuru Palm A "Seringueiro" Tapping a Rubber Tree Smoking the Rubber-Milk Forest Interior A Fig-Tree Completely Overgrown with Orchids Chico, The Monkey Turtle Eggs on the Sand-Bank The Pirarucu The Last Resting-Place of the Rubber-Workers "Seringueiros" Joao Floresta Creek Lake Innocence Alligator from Lake Innocence Another Alligator ...
— In The Amazon Jungle - Adventures In Remote Parts Of The Upper Amazon River, Including A - Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians • Algot Lange
... prospering I could not say; and I do not suppose any reader of mine will care so much for it as I did in the pour of the moonlight over the roofs and towers that were now becoming Granada, and quickening my slow old emotions to a youthful glow. At the station, which, in spite of Boabdil el Chico and Ferdinand and Isabel, was quite like every other railway station of southern Europe, we parted friends with our Spanish fellow-traveler, whom we left smoking and who is probably smoking still. Then we mounted with our Swedish friends into the omnibus of the hotel we had chosen and which ...
— Familiar Spanish Travels • W. D. Howells
... Chase one question then." She gathered some of the cheese upon her fork, and, balancing it midway to her mouth, went on with a gloating clearness of enunciation. "Please tell us why you came to the afternoon concert at the Chico Normal School this summer in a colored shirt and your dress suit, and why you did not sing your part ...
— Stanford Stories - Tales of a Young University • Charles K. Field
... sustancias que puedan servir de abono, y convirtiendo en estiercol hasta las algas del mar!—Ya poseedor de ambos preciosos elementos, el hijo de Rota va estercolando 20 pacientemente, no su heredad entera (pues le faltarla abono para tanto), sino redondeles de terreno del vuelo de un plato chico,[68-7] y en cada uno de estos redondeles estercolados siembra un grano de simiente de tomate o una pepita de calabaza, que riega luego a mano con un jarro muy diminuto, como quien da 25 de ...
— Novelas Cortas • Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
... The orchestra Chico Morani, a mere Dago bohunk himself, had organised among the men, burst afresh. And every other sound ceased. Even the gambling groups out before the camp paused ...
— The Return of Blue Pete • Luke Allan |
