The Overland MonthlySamuel Carson, 1902 - California |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
American asked beautiful better birds Butte County California called captain charming Chinese Chouicha Cicely Clement color dark dear door dredger Eastern oyster eggs eyes face father Feather River feet fish flower G. P. Putnam's Sons garden girl gold hand head heart hills horse hundred interest Klogh knew land live looked Lord Innismore Madison ment miles Miss morning mother mountain mouth Napa Napa County never night once Oroville Overland Monthly oyster passed Pit River poppy river road Salmon San Francisco Santa Cruz County seemed shell side smile soon story tell things thou thought tion told took trees ture turned valley voice WALTER BAKER wife wild William Holden woman women write York young
Popular passages
Page 848 - ASLEEP in Jesus! blessed sleep! •£•»- From which none ever wakes to weep, A calm and undisturbed repose, Unbroken by the last of foes.
Page 574 - And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs, Goes down with a great shout upon the hills, And leaves a lonesome place against the sky.
Page 851 - As you are now so once was I; As I am now so you must be, Prepare for death and follow me.
Page 722 - Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's time — and long before that — God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods ; but he cannot save them from fools, — only Uncle Sam can do that.
Page 848 - FRIEND after friend departs : Who hath not lost a friend ? There is no union here of hearts, That finds not here an end : Were this frail world our only rest, Living or dying, none were blest.
Page 780 - Of this fair land : thy golden rootlets sup Her sands of gold — of gold thy petals spun. Her golden glory, thou! on hills and plains, Lifting, exultant, every kingly cup Brimmed with the golden vintage of the sun.
Page 791 - University ; and the funds accruing from the rents or sale of such lands, or from any other source...
Page 722 - Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed — chased and hunted down as long as run or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns or magnificent bole backbones.
Page 562 - For fourteen years I have not had a day's real health; I have wakened sick and gone to bed weary; and I have done my work unflinchingly. I have written in bed, and written out of it, written in hemorrhages, written in sickness, written torn by coughing, written when my head swam for weakness ; and for so long it seems to me I have won my wager and recovered my glove.
Page 561 - I was standing out on the little verandah in front of my room this morning, and there went through me or over me a wave of extraordinary and apparently baseless emotion.