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Updated: May 9, 2025

Then, allowing the eye to follow along the southeastern curve of the Lake up to the mountains on the eastern side, the first great depression is the pass over which the Placerville road goes down the Kingsbury grade to Genoa. At the foot of the grade, at the entrance to the Carson Valley is Van Sickle's old place, one of the early day stage-stations on the Placerville road.

George Wharton James - The Lake of the Sky: Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter

Within the sickle's compass so they stood: the woman God gave this man to found a home; the son who inherited his father's gentleness and purity of purpose; the fair flower of the generations that father's sacrifice had helped him win; the bud of promise on the topmost bough.

Mary Hallock Foote - The Desert and the Sown

Even when the railways arrived there were no sleeping cars, the time of transit three or four days and nights. In the earlier journeys it had been ten or twelve days. Slavery the Trouble-Maker Break-Up of the Whig Party and Rise of the Republican The Key Sickle's Tragedy Brooks and Sumner Life at Washington in the Fifties

Henry Watterson - Marse Henry (Volume 1): An Autobiography

Even when the railways arrived there were no sleeping cars, the time of transit three or four days and nights. In the earlier journeys it had been ten or twelve days. Slavery the Trouble-Maker Break-Up of the Whig Party and Rise of the Republican The Key Sickle's Tragedy Brooks and Sumner Life at Washington in the Fifties

Henry Watterson - Marse Henry, Complete: An Autobiography

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out ev'n to the edge of doom: If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved." W. Shakespeare. "He that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

A. Maude (Agnes Maude) Royden - Sex and Common-Sense

The book Shakespeare's Sonnets was open at that which begins: "Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove " Gyp read on as far as the lines: "Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come.

John Galsworthy - Beyond

But he could blab to the riders. Van Sickle's lookin' fer you. An' to-day when I was alone with Joel he told me some more queer things about you. I shut him up quick. But I ain't guaranteein' I can keep him shut up." "I'll bet you I shut him up," declared Slone. "What more did the fool say?"

Zane Grey - Wildfire

Cowperwood smiled pleasantly. So a second company, officered by dummies of McKibben's selection, was organized. De Soto Sippens, without old General Van Sickle's knowledge, was taken in as practical adviser. An application for a franchise was drawn up, and Kent Barrows McKibben began silent, polite work on the South Side, coming into the confidence, by degrees, of the various councilmen.

Theodore Dreiser - The Titan