"Junto" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn, at the door of which he took his seat from morning till night, just moving sufficiently to avoid the ...
— Short Stories Old and New • Selected and Edited by C. Alphonso Smith
... three-hours' description of the third heaven, of which he had had a dream, very different from Mr. Southey's Vision of Judgment, and also from that other Vision of Judgment, which Mr. Murray, the Secretary of the Bridge-street Junto, has taken into his ...
— Hazlitt on English Literature - An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature • Jacob Zeitlin
... called the Junto, which became very prosperous, and gave strength to his local reputation. He also began a society for the study of universal knowledge, which ...
— True to His Home - A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin • Hezekiah Butterworth
... encouraged and elated with fresh hopes, Columbus took leave of the little junto at La Rabida, and set out, in the spring of 1486, for the Castilian court, which had just assembled at Cordova, where the sovereigns were fully occupied with their chivalrous enterprise for the conquest of Granada. But alas! ...
— Good Stories For Great Holidays - Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the - Children's Own Reading • Frances Jenkins Olcott
... perdida toda esperanza, pidio como ultima merced que la dejasen un instante implorar del cielo, antes de morir, el perdon de sus culpas, y de rodillas al borde de la cortadura como estaba, la vieja inclino la cabeza, junto las manos y comenzo a murmurar entre dientes que se yo que imprecaciones ininteligibles: palabras que yo no podia oir por la distancia que me separaba de ella, pero que ni los mismos que estaban a su lado lograron entender; Unos aseguran que hablaba ...
— Legends, Tales and Poems • Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
... Adams has stated that at that time the "Essex Junto" agreed upon a New England convention to consider the expediency of secession. Adams denounced the plotters so violently that the Massachusetts legislature censured him by vote, upon which he resigned his seat in ...
— Thomas Jefferson • Edward S. Ellis et. al. |
