When I was wrecked in the
Solomons on the blackbirder, the Minota, it was Captain Kellar, master of the blackbirder, the Eugenie, who rescued me.
Now, in the
Solomons, where whites are few and blacks are many, and where the whites do the ruling, such an offer to fight is the deadliest insult.
"But it's a far cry from the
Solomons to the United States."
"
Solomon's Mines?" ejaculated both my hearers at once.
Brother
Solomon and Sister Jane were rich, and the family candor and total abstinence from false politeness with which they were always received seemed to them no argument that their brother in the solemn act of making his will would overlook the superior claims of wealth.
It was to the island that Peter now flew to put his strange case before old
Solomon Caw, and he alighted on it with relief, much heartened to find himself at last at home, as the birds call the island.
"Oh,
Solomon, dear
Solomon!" cried Miss Pross, clapping her hands again.
Nay, it was felt to be such a holiday and special night, that, on the motion of little
Solomon Daisy, every man
They are upon Mount Moriah, where King
Solomon's Temple stood.
The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is
Solomon's, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe.
However, there was a tradition amongst the wise men of the country that the Dragon might be overcome by one who possessed King
Solomon's signet-ring, upon which a secret writing was engraved.
Solomon Rout, the chief engineer, smoking his morning cigar over the skylight, would turn away his head in order to hide a smile.