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"Dubuque" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the light of to-day, and saw the steamboats wooding up, counted the rising cities, gazed on the fresh ruins of Nauvoo, beheld the Indians moving west across the stream, and, as before I had looked up the Moselle now looked up the Ohio and the Missouri, and heard the legends of Dubuque and of Wenona's Cliff,—still thinking more of the future than of the past or present,—I saw that this was a Rhine stream of a different kind; that the foundations of castles were yet to be laid, and the famous bridges were yet to be thrown over the river; ...

— Excursions • Henry D. Thoreau

... occurred within these few years in which Lynch law was duly administered. At Dubuque, in the Ioway district, a murder was committed. The people of Dubuque first applied to the authorities of the state of Michigan, but they discovered that the district of Ioway was not within the jurisdiction of that State; and, in fact, ...

— Diary in America, Series One • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

... awful thing occurs? Though in itself thy name hath nought of wit, Yet—and this doth confound me to admit When I do hear it, I do smile; nay, more— I laugh, I scream, I cachinnate, I roar As Wearied Business Men do shake with glee At mimes that say "Dubuque" or "Kankakee"; As basement-brows that laugh at New Rochelle; As lackwits laugh when actors mention Hell. Perhaps—it may be so—I am not sure— Perhaps it is that thou wast so obscure, And that one seldom hears ...

— Something Else Again • Franklin P. Adams

Words linked to "Dubuque" : Iowa, Hawkeye State, town, IA