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“Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.”

Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches

“There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.”

Kind Different Hours Four Six Spring Hundred England Twenties Weather Variety Different Kinds New England Sumptuous

Author:Mark Twain

“Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.”

Long Faces Cities Wind Summer Spring England Shade June Comes And Goes County Louisiana New England Maple Wyoming

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.”

Beautiful Summer Spring England London Autumn

Author:Orlando Bloom

“. . . the first spring in five free from the rumour of guns across the Channel, a spring anxious to make up for the cold winter, life bursting out after four years of death. All of England raised her face to the sun. . .”

Years Firsts Faces Sun Five Four Cold Spring Gun England Raised Winter Anxious Four Years Bursting Rumours Winter Cold Bursting Out

Book:The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen

Source: The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen

“It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this." I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself. "Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea." "The board-schools." "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.”

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels

“Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple, Colour of lilac, Your great puffs of flowers Are everywhere in this my New England ... Lilacs in dooryards Holding quiet conversation with an early moon; Lilacs watching a deserted house; ... Lilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom, You are everywhere.”

House White Wind Flower Quiet Moon Conversation Spring England Blue Colour Shock Beaten Purple New England Deserted Staggering Puff Lilac

Author:Amy Lowell

“It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.”

Children Mother Months Six Married Spring Daughter England Disappear My Children My Daughter Village Composer Six Months New England Persephone Small Villages

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank, in the spring of 1927, to cut the rediscount rate. Benjamin Strong, Governor of the bank, was chief advocate of this unwise measure, which was taken largely at the behest of Montagu Norman of the Bank of England....At the time of the Banks action I warned of its consequences....I felt that sooner or later the market had to break.”