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 Richard Edwin Day

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

Petrel. The petrel's wing, though frail, Is set against the gale Which rounds the mariner's sail; And his it is to fly In a vortex of the sky.— filed under Birds-Pelican
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