Though Moscow has been three times nearly destroyed,-first, by the Tartars in the fourteenth century; second, by the poles in the seventeenth century; and again, at the time of the French invasion under Napoleon, in 1812,-still it has sprung from its ashes each time as if by magic power, and has never lost its original character, being a more splendid and prosperous capital than ever before since its foundation, and is to-day rapidly increasing in the number of its population.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
They could only stand before the rampart and then the women would give them supplies of food attached to long bamboo poles.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
I convinced myself that in some way the attainment of one of the poles-the effort on which I had spent sixteen years-would become possible.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook