House Colony

Famous quotes containing the words house and/or colony:

    ‘Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
    Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

    “Tall tales” were told of the sociability of the Texans, one even going so far as to picture a member of the Austin colony forcing a stranger at the point of a gun to visit him.
    —Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)