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"Coney Island" Quotes from Famous Books

... was talking of grand and simple things in the pines that look across the lower bay at Sandy Hook. The great water spaces were a delicious blue, dotted with the white tops of crushed waves; to the left, Coney Island lay mapped out in bleached surfaces, while beyond and seaward, from the purple sleeve formed by the hills of the Navesink, the Hook ran a brown finger eastward. A hawk which nests among the steep inclines of Todt Hill shot out ...

— Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 • Various

... that the Roverings ate their lunch and supper all in one, and decided that their day at Coney Island had not ...

— Harper's Young People, August 17, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... their feet to the "Lion Palace." From there, seated at table and quenching their thirst with high-balls, they watched the feverish palpitations of the city's life-blood pulsating in the veins of Coney Island, to which they had drifted ...

— The House of the Vampire • George Sylvester Viereck

... orgies. But we cannot tarry—in spite of Mimi Lobner (Ah, lovely lady!) who sings to us "Liebliche Kleine Dingerchen" from "Kino-Koenigin," and makes us buy her a peach bowle in payment. One more place and we are ready for the resort in the Prater, the Coney Island of Vienna. This last place has no embroidered name. Its existence is emblazoned across the blue skies by an electric sign reading "Etablissement Parisien." It is in the Schellinggasse and justifies itself by the possession of a very fine orchestra whose militaer-kapellmeister ...

— Europe After 8:15 • H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright

... of the costly experiments undertaken by Mr. King for the American Aeronautic Society, at Coney Island last season, simply affords another illustration of the aeronautical axiom that "Captives are uncertain." Under the most favorable circumstances, and at inland points least exposed, on perhaps not more than a dozen days in the year will ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 - of Popular Literature and Science • Various

Words linked to "Coney Island" : Brooklyn, city district