 | Linus Pierpont Brockett - Military hospitals - 1866 - 618 pages
...blue-coated soldier boys in the hospitals, the eloquence everywhere acting as an open sesame to tke granaries. Now they obtained a little from a rich...we felt that it was consecrated — that the holy purpose of these noble women had imparted an almost sacredness to it, A LITTLE girl not nine years... | |
 | Jane Currie Blaikie Hoge ("Mrs. A.H. Hoge") - United States - 1867 - 592 pages
...everywhere acting as an open sesame to the granaries. Now they obtained a little from a rich man, and. a great deal from a poor man — deeds of benevolence...we felt that it was consecrated — that the holy purpose of these noble women had imparted almost a sacredness to it. A little girl, not nine years... | |
 | Jane Currie Hoge - 1867 - 504 pages
...everywhere acting as an open sesame to the granaries. Now they obtained a little from a rich man, and a great deal from a poor man — deeds of benevolence...we felt that it was consecrated — that the holy purpose of these noble women had imparted almost a sacredness to it. A little girl, not nine years... | |
 | Mary Ashton Livermore - Flags - 1889 - 726 pages
...granaries. Now they obtained A SACRED BANK-CHECK. 145 a little from a rich man, then a large quantity from a poor man — deeds of benevolence are half...hundred bushels of wheat. This they sent to market, when they could obtain the highest market price, and forwarded the money to me, to be given the Sanitary... | |
 | Mary Ashton Livermore - United States - 1890 - 636 pages
...an open sesame to the granaries. Now they obtained a little from a rich man, then a large quantity from a poor man — deeds of benevolence are half...hundred bushels of wheat. This they sent to market, when they could obtain the highest market price, and forwarded the money to me, to be given the Sanitary... | |
 | Linus Pierpont Brockett - Secret service - 1892 - 592 pages
...team, amid the snows and mud of early spring, they canvassed the country for twenty and twenty-live miles around, everywhere eloquently pleading the needs...we felt that it was consecrated — that the holy purpose of these noble women had imparted an almost sacredness to it. A LITTLE girl not nine years... | |
 | Linus Pierpont Brockett - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 580 pages
...team, amid the snows and mud of early spring, they canvassed the country for twenty and twenty-live miles around, everywhere eloquently pleading the needs...this hard-earned money in our hands, we felt that it wan consecrated — that the holy purpose of these noble women had imparted an almost sacredness to... | |
 | Henry Addington Bruce - Women - 1912 - 296 pages
...hospitals, their eloquence everywhere acting as an open [196J sesame to the granaries. Thus they labored till they had accumulated nearly five hundred bushels...wheat. This they sent to market, obtained the highest market-price for it, and forwarded the proceeds to the Commission. As we held this hard-earned money... | |
 | MARY A. LIVERMORE - 1892 - 786 pages
...an open sesame to the granaries. Now they obtained a little from a rich man, then a large quantity from a poor man — deeds of benevolence are half...hundred bushels of wheat. This they sent to market, when they could obtain the highest market price, and forwarded the money to me, to be given the Sanitary... | |
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... miles around, everywhere eloquently pleading the needs of the blue-coated soldier boys in the hospitals, the eloquence everywhere acting as an open sesame to the granaries. Now they obtained a little from a rich man, and then a great deal from a poor... 