"Du Bois" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Monday, 14 of May, 1804, we left our establishment at the mouth of the River du Bois, or Wood River, a small river which falls into the Mississippi, on the east side, a mile below the Missouri, and having crossed the Mississippi proceeded up the Missouri on our intended voyage of discovery, under the command ...
— Lewis and Clark - Meriwether Lewis and William Clark • William R. Lighton
... which Humboldt rightly strings together, highly significant and modern? Especially in view of the opinion which Du Bois Reymond, for example, expresses: 'In antiquity, mediaeval times, and in later literature up to the last century, one seeks in vain for the expression of what we ...
— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese
... composes de plusieurs bandes paralleles entr'elles; les exterieures sont blanches et epaisses, les interieures sont brunes et plus minces. Le corps meme de la montagne, dont on appercoit ca et la les rochers au travers du bois, qui les couvre, paroi compose de couches irregulieres et diversement inclinees. On pourroit soupconner que cette bande n'est que le reste d'une espece de callote qui vraisemblablement couvroit ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton
... threw them a handful of tobacco, for which there was a great scramble, and their noisy voices died away in the distance as we rounded an abrupt point of rocks, and floated out upon the glorious expanse of Lac du Bois, or, as it is more frequently called, the Lake of ...
— Hudson Bay • R.M. Ballantyne
... overcame her as with stifling fumes. She stopped at a street-corner, drawing long panting breaths as if she had been running a race. Then, slowly and aimlessly, she began to saunter along a street of small private houses in damp gardens that led to the Avenue du Bois. She sat down on a bench. Not far off, the Arc de Triomphe raised its august bulk, and beyond it a river of lights streamed down toward Paris, and the stir of the city's heart-beats troubled the quiet in her bosom. But not for long. She seemed to be ...
— The Glimpses of the Moon • Edith Wharton
... roused to know his surroundings, he found himself standing on a corner of the avenue du Bois. ...
— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance
... this period I fell in with a new set of acquaintances, accounts of whom may not be uninteresting. I forget what it was that introduced me to Mr. Hill, proprietor of the Monthly Mirror; but at his house at Sydenham I used to meet his editor, Du Bois; Thomas Campbell, who was his neighbor; and the two Smiths, authors of The Rejected Addresses. I saw also Theodore Hook, and Mathews, the comedian. Our host was a jovial bachelor, plump and rosy as an abbot; and no abbot could have presided over a more festive Sunday. The wine flowed merrily ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various |
