As it is ...Munsell & Rowland, 1860 - 260 Seiten |
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... laughter , verging upon the hysterical . There was merriment with terror - strange companions - ruling by turns , those timid and bewildered girls . Sterling had leisure now to reflect : " she was a married woman ! another's ! what was ...
... laughter , verging upon the hysterical . There was merriment with terror - strange companions - ruling by turns , those timid and bewildered girls . Sterling had leisure now to reflect : " she was a married woman ! another's ! what was ...
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... laughed at human dis- may . Sterling retired to his berth and covered his head three deep in blankets - the pillow on top - and thus endeavored to sleep . He lay in this condition , slumbering , but not sleeping , until midnight , when ...
... laughed at human dis- may . Sterling retired to his berth and covered his head three deep in blankets - the pillow on top - and thus endeavored to sleep . He lay in this condition , slumbering , but not sleeping , until midnight , when ...
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... laughter , with an occasional shout and a half uttered scream , plainly indicated that the company within was not of the most refined or polished sort . " You are getting me into a scrape , senator . " " Well , " replied Burton , " you ...
... laughter , with an occasional shout and a half uttered scream , plainly indicated that the company within was not of the most refined or polished sort . " You are getting me into a scrape , senator . " " Well , " replied Burton , " you ...
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... laughter . ] But I must bring these dissolutary remarks to an end . Let me now beg of you , for good sense suggests it , to say nothing about this affair . I'll do the genteel thing . It's not far to Brown's . Come , I'll treat ...
... laughter . ] But I must bring these dissolutary remarks to an end . Let me now beg of you , for good sense suggests it , to say nothing about this affair . I'll do the genteel thing . It's not far to Brown's . Come , I'll treat ...
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... laughed ; cunningly drew her feet under her frock , and sat up in the bed looking like a little turk . Sterling was delighted . " You have been very sick , child , " said he . " Lie down and be still . " " Oh no ! I am well , now ...
... laughed ; cunningly drew her feet under her frock , and sat up in the bed looking like a little turk . Sterling was delighted . " You have been very sick , child , " said he . " Lie down and be still . " " Oh no ! I am well , now ...
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bank Beatrice beautiful bells are ringing Belvedere Belvedere's bets Blunderbuss bright eyes cards chamber CHAPTER charmed child cigar Clodhead cologne Colonel countenance curls Curtis Dash dealer dear delight devil doctor dollars a day door Ernest exclaimed eyes face favorite felt fingers friends Ganymede gentle graceful guitar hair hand head heart Helen hundred dollars Jump-up kissed knew laugh leaning leave lifted Lily Lily's ling lips long watching looked lost Maggie Miss Pembroke morning Mozart neck never night Paganini parlor paused Placid play Plunket pocket politicians prince Pustleponch remarked replied retired rosy Rozzin seat seemed Senator Burton sleep smiles speaker spirit Ster Sterling Sterling's sweet Tar River Thimblerigg thing thought thousand dollars tion tones touched tremulous Tristram Shandy turned Vereprompt violin voice walked Wiregrass young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 28 - And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph! thy hairs should feel The conqu'ring force of unresisted steel?
Seite 180 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Seite 32 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, W'here one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost...
Seite 32 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast ; keep, then, the path ; For Emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue ; if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost.
Seite 156 - Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims : Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
Seite 22 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Seite 21 - Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground ; long heath, brown furze, any thing : The wills above be done ! but I would fain die a dry death.
Seite 196 - ... it is that feigning notable images of virtues, vices, or what else, with that delightful teaching, which must be the right describing note to know a poet by.
Seite 227 - Whosoever hath anything fixed in his person that doth induce contempt hath also a perpetual spur in himself to rescue and deliver himself from scorn.
Seite 22 - If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze, By the sweet power of music...