All the Year RoundChapman and Hall, 1891 |
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... walk , flower- hunting . Where the four were no no man could say . Nance had forgotten them , and was lost among the daphne flowers . Suddenly a spluttering rain - shower burst upon her . She stood erect , a trim figure , neat as an ...
... walk , flower- hunting . Where the four were no no man could say . Nance had forgotten them , and was lost among the daphne flowers . Suddenly a spluttering rain - shower burst upon her . She stood erect , a trim figure , neat as an ...
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... walk home together . " " Yes ; but my daphne ! I have lost nearly all ! " " I will gather more , " Etienne began . " We will all gather more , to - morrow , when there is no rain , " his cousin said . " We will come together . We are ...
... walk home together . " " Yes ; but my daphne ! I have lost nearly all ! " " I will gather more , " Etienne began . " We will all gather more , to - morrow , when there is no rain , " his cousin said . " We will come together . We are ...
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... walking by the side of Nance , simply because Nance would walk by him . It appeared a gay party going back to Biarritz on the tram cars ; but is there not a second side to everything ? " Monsieur , come with us and fetch the book Rênée ...
... walking by the side of Nance , simply because Nance would walk by him . It appeared a gay party going back to Biarritz on the tram cars ; but is there not a second side to everything ? " Monsieur , come with us and fetch the book Rênée ...
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... walk , sir . " The tempting to open communication with the barn on the other side ; but the little path is rapidly filling up again . Of the farm labourers , only one , Mrs. Godbeer tells me , has come to his work ; this faithful Abdiel ...
... walk , sir . " The tempting to open communication with the barn on the other side ; but the little path is rapidly filling up again . Of the farm labourers , only one , Mrs. Godbeer tells me , has come to his work ; this faithful Abdiel ...
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... walk . He was the last man I should have expected Jacques Lambert to turn jealous of Nevertheless , one evening when I was busy in the bar , Jacques came to me , looking very savage . He called me aside , and said : " Père Corseau , I ...
... walk . He was the last man I should have expected Jacques Lambert to turn jealous of Nevertheless , one evening when I was busy in the bar , Jacques came to me , looking very savage . He called me aside , and said : " Père Corseau , I ...
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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.