"Life story" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... others, are the result of one man's work; in fact, this man has thought out so many marvelous inventions that the whole world agrees that he is the greatest inventor that has ever lived. Should you like to hear the life story of one who is so truly great? I am sure you would, for in the best sense he ...
— Modern Americans - A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades • Chester Sanford
... The life story of "Buffalo Bill" by his sister Helen Cody Wetmore, with Foreword and conclusion ...
— Eve to the Rescue • Ethel Hueston
... clear moonlight, interrupted only by Shot's occasional growl, and the distant hoot of an owl or bark of a coyote, Andrew Malden told his life story to the boy at his side, the boy who was just passing up to young manhood. He told of Mary Moore; of the weary tramp behind an ox-team across the prairies and Nevada desert; of that snow-bound winter near Denver Lake; of the early days of Gold City. He told of his son who slept ...
— The Transformation of Job - A Tale of the High Sierras • Frederick Vining Fisher
... no details, and having no particular interest in crime qua crime I was not likely to keep that one in my mind. And I forgot it till twenty-six or seven years afterwards I came upon the very thing in a shabby volume picked up outside a second-hand book-shop. It was the life story of an American seaman written by himself with the assistance of a journalist. In the course of his wanderings that American sailor worked for some months on board a schooner, the master and owner of which was the thief of whom I had heard in my very young days. I have no doubt of that ...
— Notes on My Books • Joseph Conrad
... but dropped the subject, wondering, with a girlish curiosity, what Miss Rayner's life story was. ...
— Dwell Deep - or Hilda Thorn's Life Story • Amy Le Feuvre
... finding out all about you, I got your life story from the day you were born, and there's no use your trying to hide anything. I know your part in this here bomb plot, and I can send you to the gallows without any trouble whatever. But there's some things ...
— 100%: The Story of a Patriot • Upton Sinclair |
