CITY in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
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1 "Now let us go back to the city," suggested the Wizard.
2 I can see plenty of nice gardens and fields down below us, at the edge of this city.
3 The houses of this city had many corners, being square and six-sided and eight-sided.
4 They began to wonder if there were no people to inhabit this magnificent city of the inner world.
5 Over this Land I ruled in peace for many years, until I grew old and longed to see my native city once again.
6 As the horse ambled along, drawing the buggy, the people of the glass city made way for them and formed a procession in their rear.
7 They seemed to be falling right into the middle of a big city which had many tall buildings with glass domes and sharp-pointed spires.
8 So she ran along over their heads until she had left them far behind and below and had come to the city and the House of the Sorcerer.
9 The houses of the city were all made of glass, so clear and transparent that one could look through the walls as easily as through a window.
10 The rainbow tints from the colored suns fell upon the glass city softly and gave to the buildings many delicate, shifting hues which were very pretty to see.
11 Slowly but steadily the heartless Mangaboos drove them on, until they had passed through the city and the gardens and come to the broad plains leading to the mountain.
12 The space underneath the roof, where they stood, permitted them to see on all sides of the tall building, and they looked with much curiosity at the city spread out beneath them.
13 The people of Mangaboo now formed themselves into a procession and marched toward the glass city to escort their new ruler to her palace and to perform those ceremonies proper to the occasion.
14 All of them expected nothing less than instant death; but to their surprise the wooden creatures flew into the air with them and bore them far away, over miles and miles of wooden country, until they came to a wooden city.
15 The glass city had several fine streets, for a good many people lived there; but when the procession had passed through these it came upon a broad plain covered with gardens and watered by many pretty brooks that flowed through it.
16 They first passed through many beautiful gardens of flowers, which grew nearest the city; but Dorothy could hardly tell what kind of flowers they were, because the colors were constantly changing under the shifting lights of the six suns.
17 For they were in the streets of a beautiful emerald-green city, bathed in a grateful green light that was especially pleasing to their eyes, and surrounded by merry faced people in gorgeous green-and-gold costumes of many extraordinary designs.
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