"Rockaway" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... faster by degrees. Your hands are folded, my beloved, and your dear eyes they are closed; and yet you see the beauteous sights that skirt the journey through the mists of Balow. And it is rockaway, rockaway, rockaway, that your speeding cradle goes,—rockaway, rockaway, rockaway, through the golden glories that lie in the path that leadeth to ...
— The Holy Cross and Other Tales • Eugene Field
... sufficiently fed there), some of the exclusive ladies had hesitated about "assisting" on the occasion; but the temptation of a dance was too strong to be resisted, and they all ultimately went. Le Roi accompanied the Bensons in the all-accommodating Rockaway. The Bellevue had a "colony," too, in the second story of which was the ballroom. As they ascended the stairs, the lively notes of La Polka Sempiternelle, composee par Josef Bungel, et dediee a M. T. Edwards, ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 • Various
... we're just in time," said Colonel Crutcher. "There comes Miss Ann Peyton's rockaway. Where do you ...
— The Comings of Cousin Ann • Emma Speed Sampson
... however, was about the middle of May, the balmy month of soft breezes and bright flowers. I had been particularly studious in school, and my father agreed to let me spend three days at the Sound in company with a young friend. We arranged our food supply, took the old family rockaway, and set out early in the morning, as happy a pair of boys as ever started on a project ...
— Money Island • Andrew Jackson Howell, Jr.
... feel sore about getting fined twenty-five dollars for driving like a maniac down at Far Rockaway last summer Abe," ...
— Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things • Montague Glass
... enormous eye under which he wrote: "I became one great transparent eye-ball"; and another was a pumpkin with a human face, beneath which was written: "We expand and grow in the sunshine." In another sketch Emerson and Margaret Fuller were represented driving "over hill and dale" in a rockaway. ...
— Cambridge Sketches • Frank Preston Stearns |
