When Paul Bunyan's loggers roofed an Oregon bunkhouse with shakes, fog was so thick that they shingled forty feet into space befor...e discovering they had passed the last rafter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or els...e a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere..., from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is one mystery, "take, eat," I have found the clue,... there is no old nor new: wine, bread, grape and sweet honey; Galilee, Delphi, to-day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Oregon [matter] and the annexation of Texas are now all- important to the security and future peace and prosperity of our unio...n, and I hope there are a sufficient number of pure American democrats to carry into effect the annexation of Texas and [extension of] our laws over Oregon. No temporizing policy or all is lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My mother, who hates thunderstorms, Holds up each summer day and shakes... It out suspiciously, lest swarms Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A happy rural seat of various view: Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm;... Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable--Hesperian fables true. If true, here only--and of delicious taste. Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Gracing the tender herb, were interposed, Or palmy hillock; or the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spread her store, Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose. Another side, umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant: meanwhile murmuring waters fall Down the slope hills, dispersed, or in a lake, That to the fringed bank with myrtle crowned Her crystal mirror holds, unite their streams.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »