Famous quotes containing the words began and/or offering:
“But the cheerful Spring came kindly on
And show’rs began to fall:
John Barleycorn got up again
And sore surpris’d them all.”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“Instead of offering the Indians a chance to surrender, and to be taken peaceably, General Connor issued a very cruel order to his men—’Take no prisoners, fight to the death; nits breed lice.’”
—State of Utah, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)