 ... the Bowie-knife and the revolver, which has chewed the juice out of all the superlatives in the language in Fourth of July orations, and so used up its epithets in the rhetoric of abuse that it takes two great quarto dictionaries to supply the demand...  Timeless Healing: The Power and Biology of Belief - Strana 118autor/autoři: Herbert Benson, Marg Stark - 2009 - 316 str.Omezený náhled - Podrobnosti o knize
 | 1860 - 838 str.
...in the rhetoric of abuse, that it takes two great quarto dictionaries to supply the demand ; which insists in sending out yachts and horses and boys,...creation — how could such a people be content with anything but heroic practice ? What wonder that the stars and stripes wave over doses of ninety grains... | |
 | 1860 - 830 str.
...outfight and checkmate all the rest of creation — how could such a people be content with anything but heroic practice ? What wonder that the stars and stripes wave over doses of ninety grains of sulphate of quinine, and that the American eagle screams with delight to see the three drachms of calomel... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1861 - 450 str.
...epithets in the rhetoric of abuse that it takes two great quarto dictionaries to supply the demand ; which insists in sending out yachts and horses and boys...stars and stripes wave over doses of ninety grains of sulphate of quinine,* and that the American eagle screams with delight to see three drachms of calomel... | |
 | American Unitarian Association - 1861 - 600 str.
...medicine as those of the doctors, except those of apothecaries ; and considers it a fact of American life, that the stars and stripes wave over doses of ninety grains of sulphate of quinine, and the American eagle screams with delight to see three drachms of calomel given... | |
 | 1879 - 306 str.
...the demand, which insists in sending out yachts, and horses, and boys to out sail, out run, out fight and checkmate all the rest of creation; how could...stars and stripes wave over doses of ninety grains of sulphate of quinine, and that the American eagle screams with delight to see three drachms of calomel... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 478 str.
...epithets in the rhetoric of abuse that it takes two great quarto dictionaries to supply the demand ; which insists in sending out yachts and horses and boys...stars and stripes wave over doses of ninety grains of sulphate of quinine," and that the American eagle screams with delight to see three drachms of calomel... | |
 | William Sloane Kennedy - 1883 - 374 str.
...dictionaries to supply the demand ; which insists in sending out yachts and horses and boys to out-sail, out-fight, and checkmate all the rest of creation—...stars and stripes wave over doses of ninety grains of sulphate of quinine, and that the American eagle screams with delight to see three drachms of calomel... | |
 | OLIVER WENDELL HOLMS - 1891 - 470 str.
...epithets in the rhetoric of abuse that it takes two great quarto dictionaries to supply the demand ; which insists in sending out yachts and horses and boys...stars and stripes wave over doses of ninety grains of sulphate of quinine," and that the American eagle screams with delight to see three drachms of calomel... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 482 str.
...epithets in the rhetoric of abuse that it takes two great quarto dictionaries to supply the demand ; which insists in sending out yachts and horses and boys...stars and stripes wave over doses of ninety grains of sulphate of quinine," and that the American eagle screams with delight to see three drachms of calomel... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 502 str.
...epithets in the rhetoric of abuse that it takes two great quarto dictionaries to supply the demand ; which insists in sending out yachts and horses and boys...stars and stripes wave over doses of ninety grains of sulphate of quinine," and that the American eagle screams with delight to see three drachms of calomel... | |
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