 | Almanacs, American - 1844 - 468 pages
...would tell you, " Have /ou not room in your own country to bury ^our dead men ? If yon come into mine we will greet you with bloody hands, and welcome you to hospitable graves." Why, says the Chairman of this Committee >f Foreign Relations, it is the most reasona>le thing in the... | |
 | Thomas Corwin - United States - 1847 - 80 pages
...would tell you, " Have you not room in your own country to bury your dead men ? If you come into mine we will greet you with bloody hands, and welcome you to hospitable graves." Why, says the Chairman of this Committee of Foreign Relations, it is the most reasonable t'ting in... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - English language - 1869 - 392 pages
...Mexico as saying : "Have you not room in your own country to bury your dead men ? If you come into mine, we will greet you — with bloody hands, and welcome you — to hospitable graves 1" Such questions are not asked because they require an answer, but because the very opposite to what... | |
 | Dakota Indians - 1901 - 772 pages
...would tell you : Have you not room in your own country to bury your dead men? If you come into mine, we will greet you with bloody hands and welcome you to hospitable graves." Some foolish member of the House presented a petition asking for the resignation of Senator Corwin... | |
 | Nathan Sargent - Statesmen - 1875 - 424 pages
...Mexican I would ask,' Have you not room in your own country to bury your dead ? If you come to mine, we will greet you with bloody hands and welcome you to hospitable graves.' " You want' more room'! This has been the plea of every robber from Nimrod to the present day. I dare... | |
 | J. Scott Clark - English language - 1886 - 410 pages
...punctuation: " Have you not room in your own country to bury your dead men ? If you come into mine, we will greet you — with bloody hands, and welcome you — to hospitable graves." 4. Like antithesis, epigram, and climax, irony must not be used too frequently. A writer who continually... | |
 | William Henry Venable - History - 1891 - 548 pages
...would tell you, ' Have you not room in your own country to bury your dead men ? If you come into mine, we will greet you with bloody hands, and welcome you to hospitable graves.' ' " Tom " Corwin's humor was of that high order which is found associated with pathos and poetic sensibility.... | |
 | William Henry Venable - American literature - 1891 - 550 pages
...would tell you, ' Have you not room in your own country 'to bury your dead men ? If you come into mine, we will greet you with bloody hands, and welcome you to hospitable graves.' " " Tom " Corwin's humor was of that high order which is found associated with pathos and poetic sensibility.... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 538 pages
...would tell yon, 'Have you not room in your own country to bury your dead men ? If you come into mine, we will greet you with bloody hands and welcome you to hospitable graves.' " * It is inconsistent, but it is the inconsistency of a vigorous nationality, to condemn this utterance... | |
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If I were a Mexican I would tell you, "Have you not room in your own country to bury your dead men? If you come into mine, we will greet you with bloody hands, and welcome you to hospitable graves. 
