"Polk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Peter," said Mrs. Clare. "You see," she added, by way of an explanation, "my cousin Peter Polk had the settlement of my husband's affairs when he died, and I have always imagined that—well, that Rose and I did not get exactly what was coming ...
— Randy of the River - The Adventures of a Young Deckhand • Horatio Alger Jr.
... The election of Polk to the Presidency gave his friends the opening, and the campaign to secure an appointment was begun. Bridge, then living in bachelor quarters at Portsmouth Navy Yard, conceived the rather daring idea of a sailor house-party with Hawthorne as its ...
— Nathaniel Hawthorne • George E. Woodberry
... Mrs. Davilow to her sister who now came up from the other end of the room. "Gwendolen says she will not waltz or polk." ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
... bolt, but Mr. Clay promptly acknowledged the ticket, and it was elected. Then followed the death of the President in office, the obnoxious vetoes of the newly installed President—Tyler—the division of the Whig party, the nomination of Mr. Clay at this late inopportune time and the election of Mr. Polk. ...
— Hidden Treasures - Why Some Succeed While Others Fail • Harry A. Lewis
... the coast, Mr. Allison and the others that came with him were induced to settle in Nova Scotia. Mr. Allison purchased a farm in Horton, King's County, on the border of the historic Grand Pre, where he lived until his death, in 1794. His wife was Mrs. Alice Polk, of Londonderry. She survived him for several years, and gave the historic silver spoons to her youngest child, Nancy (Mrs. Leonard), who lived to be ninety years of age. They are now in the family of her great-grandson, the late Hon. Samuel ...
— The Chignecto Isthmus And Its First Settlers • Howard Trueman
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