The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 5Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1835 |
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... winds and changing temperature , moulds and mosses cover the damp walls . Their fragile and gosamer filaments seem to be composed chiefly of water . A breath will destroy them . Now it is an interesting query whether these simple and ...
... winds and changing temperature , moulds and mosses cover the damp walls . Their fragile and gosamer filaments seem to be composed chiefly of water . A breath will destroy them . Now it is an interesting query whether these simple and ...
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... wind round a pole only in the direc- tion of the sun , viz . from left to right , or from east to west . The roots of a plant exposed to the air , and placed near to a wet sponge , will gra- dually approach it , which is also an example ...
... wind round a pole only in the direc- tion of the sun , viz . from left to right , or from east to west . The roots of a plant exposed to the air , and placed near to a wet sponge , will gra- dually approach it , which is also an example ...
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... wind's eye out on a bowline . Give her one point free , and she's off , like a shot . Will you go ? ' Thank you , ' I replied , ' I am somewhat ticklish about the neck . I had rather be hung round the waist . You are too strong to be ...
... wind's eye out on a bowline . Give her one point free , and she's off , like a shot . Will you go ? ' Thank you , ' I replied , ' I am somewhat ticklish about the neck . I had rather be hung round the waist . You are too strong to be ...
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... wind , and passed abreast the Constellation , as she rode head to the wind , so closely , that the muzzles of her long main - deck- ers almost touched our bulwarks . The captain of the Constellation stood abaft upon the signal - locker ...
... wind , and passed abreast the Constellation , as she rode head to the wind , so closely , that the muzzles of her long main - deck- ers almost touched our bulwarks . The captain of the Constellation stood abaft upon the signal - locker ...
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... wind blowing a gale , under whole top - sails , and coursers , while we had a reef in each . As a last refuge , we bore off before the wind , continuing to blaze away with our long forty - two , while she , as we kept her three masts in ...
... wind blowing a gale , under whole top - sails , and coursers , while we had a reef in each . As a last refuge , we bore off before the wind , continuing to blaze away with our long forty - two , while she , as we kept her three masts in ...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 1 Charles Fenno Hoffman,Timothy Flint,Lewis Gaylord Clark,Kinahan Cornwallis,John Holmes Agnew Visualização integral - 1833 |
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Página 119 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Página 294 - One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe : and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
Página 253 - Oh that my words were now written ! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Página 434 - It is a pistol let off at the ear ; not a feather to tickle the intellect. It is an antic which does not stand upon manners, but comes bounding into the presence, and does not show the less comic for being dragged in sometimes by the head arid shoulders.
Página 257 - Should Dennis publish, you had stabb'd your brother, Lampoon'd your Monarch, or debauch'd your mother ; Say, what revenge on Dennis can be had ? Too dull for laughter, for reply too mad : On one so poor you cannot take the law ; On one so old your sword you scorn to draw ; Uncag'd then let the harmless monster rage, Secure in dulness, madness, want, and age.
Página 104 - When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy.