While we were crossing this bay, where Mount Kineo rose dark before us, within two or three miles, the Indian repeated the traditi...on respecting this mountain's having anciently been a cow moose,--how a mighty Indian hunter, whose name I forget, succeeded in killing this queen of the moose tribe with great difficulty,... and, to his eyes, this mountain had still the form of the moose in a reclining posture, its precipitous side presenting the outline of her head.... An Indian tells such a story as if he thought it deserved to have a good deal said about it, only he has not got it to say, and so he makes up for the deficiency by a drawling tone, long-windedness, and a dumb wonder which he hopes will be contagious.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"One can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I alw...ays did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I could be the "condom queen" and get every young person who engaged in sex to use a condom in the United States, I would wear ...a crown on my head with a condom on it! I would!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that... if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Madame d'Estampes and Madame de Valentinois make me fear that I should be only honoured by my husband as a queen and not loved by ...him as a woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's s...on to marry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »