history-books

Have not her history-books told her that they were always so?

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

By far the greater part of “all the glories” of France (as of most other countries) is made up of these military men: and a fine satire it is on the cowardice of mankind, that they pay such an extraordinary homage to the virtue called courage; filling their history-books with tales about it, and nothing but it.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

Some of those stories were so interesting, and some of them so beautiful, that they were written down for other people to read; and that is how history-books came to be made.

Stories from English History Hilda T. Skae

You will read in history-books of how Essex, against the Queen's orders, left Ireland, and coming to London, burst into her presence one morning before she was dressed.

English Literature for Boys and Girls

Then, from their history-books, which we wrote for them, they learn how to make a transmitter to broadcast back to us.

The Machine That Saved The World Murray Leinster 1935

"If Rochambeau and Lafayette and all the rest of the people in the history-books had made a fuss over _me_ --"

The Wishing-Ring Man Margaret Widdemer 1931

"_All_ the people in the history-books!" she said again softly, but none the less regretfully.

The Wishing-Ring Man Margaret Widdemer 1931

Sir Philip, poor old bean, had a most ghastly thirst on, and he was just going to have one on the house, so to speak, when ... but it's all in the history-books.

Indiscretions of Archie 1928

He proposed, let us say, to set the unchanging story of life against the momentary tumult, which makes such a stir in the history-books, but which passes, leaving the other story still unrolling for ever.

The Craft of Fiction Percy Lubbock 1922

Image available THE STORY OF A WORD names we have copied from the old Greek history-books.

The Story of Mankind 1921