| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| | | Francis Bret Harte. (18361902) |
| | | 7924 | Which I wish to remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar. |
| Plain Language from truthful James. |
| 7925 | | Ah Sin was his name. |
| Plain Language from truthful James. |
| 7926 | | With the smile that was childlike and bland. |
| Plain Language from truthful James. |
| 7927 | | We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor. |
| Plain Language from truthful James. |
| 7928 | He smiled a kind of sickly smile and curled up on the floor And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more. |
| The Society upon the Stanislaus. |
| 7929 | | With unpronounceable awful names. |
| The Tale of a Pony. |
| 7930 | For there be women, fair as she, Whose verbs and nouns do more agree. |
| Mrs. Judge Jenkins. |
| | | James Ryder Randall. (18391908) |
| | | 7931 | The despots heel is on thy shore, Maryland! His torch is at thy temple-door, Maryland! Avenge the patriotic gore That flecked the streets of Baltimore, And be the battle-queen of yore, Maryland, my Maryland! |
| My Maryland. |
| 7932 | Hushed in the alabaster arms of Death Our young Marcellus sleeps. |
| John Pelham. |
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