The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Helen Gray Cone

1 quotation from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

A Discourse of Flowers. Upon a showery night and still, Without a sound of warning, A trooper band surprised the hill, And held it in the morning. We were not waked by bugle notes, No cheer our dreams invaded, And yet at dawn, their yellow coats On the green slopes paraded.— filed under Flowers-Daisy
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