"Olympics" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... there are nearer a million. But these people were so scattered we did not realize there were even that number, for the Puget Sound country is a big place—more than two hundred miles long and seventy-five miles wide—between two mountain ranges, with the Cascades on the east and the Olympics on the west. The waters of the Sound, including all the channels and bays and inlets and shores of forty islands, make more than sixteen hundred miles of shore line—nearly as many miles as the Oregon Trail is long; that is, almost as many miles as we had the previous year traversed from the Missouri ...
— Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail • Ezra Meeker
... sanguinary times, the Champ de Mars has chiefly been the site chosen for the celebration of national fetes, which, within these few years, have assumed a character more distinguished than any ever seen under the old regime. These modern Olympics consist of chariot-races and wrestling, horse and foot races, ascensions of balloons, carrying three or four persons, descents from them by means of a parachute, mock-fights and aquatic tilting. After the sports of the day, ...
— Paris As It Was and As It Is • Francis W. Blagdon |
