"Pitman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... saw or heard of the box, which contained, not only the entire outfit for my journey, but all the books of my childhood which I had, as well as the little mementoes of my mother. The postmaster who took charge of the goods was a Mr. Pitman. When I again passed through Salisbury, as I did ten years later, he had moved away, no one could tell me ...
— The Reminiscences of an Astronomer • Simon Newcomb
... of New York, and his wife, were prominent in this latter movement. Their immediate company consisted of thirteen individuals, five of whom were women, viz.: Mrs. White, Mrs. Beers, Miss Downing, Miss Johnson, and Miss Pitman. These ladies were all admirably fitted both physically and mentally for the enterprise ...
— Woman on the American Frontier • William Worthington Fowler
... PHONOGRAPHY. [200th Thousand.] By BENN PITMAN and JEROME B. HOWARD. This work is designed for self-instruction in the phonographic art and is the proper book for the beginner. It contains a complete exposition of the system, from its simplest principles to the Reporting Style, arranged in alternate and ...
— 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading • B. A. Hathaway
... the railroad bridge. Three young ladies of Haverhill went to see it, escorted by Mr. Whittier. They found that the animal had succumbed to the New England climate, and had just been buried. One of the ladies, Harriet Minot, afterward Mrs. Pitman, a life-long friend of the poet, suggested that he should write an elegy, and these are the ...
— Whittier-land - A Handbook of North Essex • Samuel T. Pickard
... experiences and which hourly became more intolerable. Then, in despair, seeing no way out at all, she went to a certain old white house out on Clay Street to confide in one to whom many another had turned, seeking counsel in the time of trouble. She went to see Judge William Pitman Priest, and she went alone, telling no one, not even Mildred, of the errand upon ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb
... those men, by no means rare in the north, who work hard with hands and head at the same time. He was a pitman, but he was also a scientific miner, almost an engineer, and so Lennard had found very little difficulty in getting him to grasp the details of the tremendous problem in the working out of which he was destined ...
— The World Peril of 1910 • George Griffith
... Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., who have provided us with this plate, we are enabled to show our readers the first example of Esperanto printed in the Pitman system. It must be borne in mind that all the vowels are long in Esperanto. We hope that this anecdote will serve many ...
— The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 1 • Various |
