The Life and Times of Seargent Smith PrentissJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1884 - 442 páginas |
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... give him a collegiate education . His physical defect unfitted him for the life of a farmer , and there was no other way open for him but a professional career . Had he been a dullard his father would have cheerfully borne him along the ...
... give him a collegiate education . His physical defect unfitted him for the life of a farmer , and there was no other way open for him but a professional career . Had he been a dullard his father would have cheerfully borne him along the ...
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... give his views , without a moment's preparation . In all my reading I never read or heard of such a society before . Its name was a compound of Greek and English , - " Spouteroi , " and expressed its object . The spouting of the ...
... give his views , without a moment's preparation . In all my reading I never read or heard of such a society before . Its name was a compound of Greek and English , - " Spouteroi , " and expressed its object . The spouting of the ...
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... to be endured . As her hand had nursed him so tenderly in his infancy , so now the same hands , with provident care , plied the needle to give him such an outfit in clothes as to place him above SEARGENT SMITH PRENTISS . 9.
... to be endured . As her hand had nursed him so tenderly in his infancy , so now the same hands , with provident care , plied the needle to give him such an outfit in clothes as to place him above SEARGENT SMITH PRENTISS . 9.
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... give an extract from his letters to the " old folks at home " : " Just before arriving at a landing - place , " he writes , " the small boat was let down , having a long rope attached . Passengers and baggage were put aboard and let ...
... give an extract from his letters to the " old folks at home " : " Just before arriving at a landing - place , " he writes , " the small boat was let down , having a long rope attached . Passengers and baggage were put aboard and let ...
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... give utterance to the height and depth of our feelings . A gen- tleman was once escorting a lady by moonlight on the " Iris Island , " of course each was wrought up to the pitch of enthu- siasm . Casting her eye up the Rapids , the lady ...
... give utterance to the height and depth of our feelings . A gen- tleman was once escorting a lady by moonlight on the " Iris Island , " of course each was wrought up to the pitch of enthu- siasm . Casting her eye up the Rapids , the lady ...
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