"Libby" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cocoa-nuts, pine-apples, oranges, papaes, potatoes, and other large roots. Here are also another sort of wild jacas, about the bigness of a man's two fists, full of stones or kernels, which eat pleasant enough when roasted. The libby tree grows here in the swampy valleys, of which they make sago cakes. I did not see them make any, but was told by the inhabitants that it was made of the pith of the tree, in the same manner I have described in my "Voyage Round the World." They ...
— Early Australian Voyages • John Pinkerton
... Day's Fight, And deep in the wilderness grim, And in the field-hospital tent, And Petersburg crater, and dim Lean brooding in Libby, there came— Ah ...
— Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War • Herman Melville
... Miss Martin says I may say my Sunday-school [lesson] there. Mr. Mitchell has had a great many new books. I have been sick. Doctor Cummings has been here and says E. is better and he thinks he will not have a fever.... G. goes to school to Miss Libby, and H. goes to Master Jackson. H. ...
— The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss • George L. Prentiss
... 'Nay, Libby; yon's a natural sized waist—hoo's nobbud small made, thaa sees,' said the woman to whom ...
— Lancashire Idylls (1898) • Marshall Mather
... a sea tale, and the reader can look out upon the wide shimmering sea as it flashes back the sunlight, and imagine himself afloat with Harry Vandyne, Walter Morse, Jim Libby and that old shell-back, Bob Brace, on the brig Bonita. The boys discover a mysterious document which enables them to find a buried treasure. They are stranded on an island and at last are ...
— Ralph Gurney's Oil Speculation • James Otis |
