All the Year RoundChapman and Hall, 1891 |
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... pretty , fair head on one side , and said : " It might be — just might be . " " That is so . " Young De Saure shrugged his shoulders ever so slightly . " But the possible is not always the probable , made- moiselle . " How much further ...
... pretty , fair head on one side , and said : " It might be — just might be . " " That is so . " Young De Saure shrugged his shoulders ever so slightly . " But the possible is not always the probable , made- moiselle . " How much further ...
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... pretty brown eyes of hers . " Well , I vote for going home as fast as we can , " put in Alice the practical . " I have no mind to assist at that déjeuner . " " There is the train going . We must wait half an hour now , " John said ...
... pretty brown eyes of hers . " Well , I vote for going home as fast as we can , " put in Alice the practical . " I have no mind to assist at that déjeuner . " " There is the train going . We must wait half an hour now , " John said ...
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... Pretty Mrs. Carbonel . " That was the light in which she struck the world in general ; and the world accepted her prettiness with accla- mation , because she herself gloried in it ' not at all . Nothing pleased Fred Carbonel better than ...
... Pretty Mrs. Carbonel . " That was the light in which she struck the world in general ; and the world accepted her prettiness with accla- mation , because she herself gloried in it ' not at all . Nothing pleased Fred Carbonel better than ...
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... pretty gowns and uniforms of scarlet , green , and blue - in a word , that kaleidoscope of colour to be seen only at a military ball . The long room , its walls adorned with groups of bayonets , and draped with banners ; its floor ...
... pretty gowns and uniforms of scarlet , green , and blue - in a word , that kaleidoscope of colour to be seen only at a military ball . The long room , its walls adorned with groups of bayonets , and draped with banners ; its floor ...
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... pretty eyes wandered hither and thither instead of being focussed upon the speaker as they should have been . How the sound of violins fills all the air ; floating the spirit upwards on a sea of sound . How the little figures swoop and ...
... pretty eyes wandered hither and thither instead of being focussed upon the speaker as they should have been . How the sound of violins fills all the air ; floating the spirit upwards on a sea of sound . How the little figures swoop and ...
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afternoon Andorra answered asked asteroids beautiful Brown Bryher called Carbonel Carnforth Catherine Charity Organisation Society CHARLES DICKENS colour Cornish course cried Crystal Palace Dawe dear dine dinner door dress eyes face feel friends garden girl give Gordon Grace Arbuthnot hand head heard heart Helen hour Humphrey Jacques Lambert James Brown John Tyrrell Jones knew lady laugh LEA & PERRINS Léonie London Longham looked Lord Mabel Maidment Mervyn mind Minnie Miss Malet Miss Smith Miss Tyrrell morning mother never night once passed pause perhaps pleasant pretty Rênée Roger round seemed Selma Sibyl side sister smile smoke speak spoke Stewart-Carr stood suddenly talk tell thing thought tion tobacco told took Tresco turned Tyrrell's Vauxhall voice walk Wellington Street wife woman wonder words young
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Seite 277 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Seite 399 - ... in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense...
Seite 129 - ... and he was to have a share of the profits for procuring customers amongst his numerous acquaintance. Fitzherbert was one who took his small-beer ; but it was so bad that the servants resolved not to drink it. They were at some loss how to notify their resolution, being afraid of offending their master, who they knew liked Foote much as a companion. At last they fixed upon a little black boy, who was rather a favourite, to be their deputy and deliver their remonstrance ; and having invested him...
Seite 399 - Tis that which we all see and know." Any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air.
Seite 300 - Framed again no second smell. Roses, violets, but toys For the smaller sort of boys, Or for greener damsels meant; Thou art the only manly scent. Stinking'st of the stinking kind, Filth of the mouth and fog of the mind...
Seite 206 - While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd: With jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon; Manna and dates, in argosy transferr'd From Fez ; and spiced dainties, every one, From silken Samarcand to cedar'd Lebanon.
Seite 129 - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenlyj affecting not to mind him.
Seite 85 - Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.
Seite 274 - ON the Mountains of the Prairie, On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry, Gitche Manito, the mighty, He the Master of Life, descending, On the red crags of the quarry Stood erect, and called the nations, Called the tribes of men together.