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 John Aiken

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

Kingfisher. I can tell you what that bird was a kingfisher, the celebrated halcyon of the ancients about which so many tales are told. It lives on fish which it catches in the manner you saw. It builds in holes in the banks, is a shy retiring bird, never to be seen far from the stream where it inhabits.— filed under Birds-Jackdaw
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