All the Year RoundChapman and Hall, 1891 |
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... asked her to play ; and there's only Bianca . Oh , how dreadful ! " " I asked her to help , " answered Tyrrell , with an inward wonder as to whether his sister would ever have the faintest notion as to what it was or was not desirable ...
... asked her to play ; and there's only Bianca . Oh , how dreadful ! " " I asked her to help , " answered Tyrrell , with an inward wonder as to whether his sister would ever have the faintest notion as to what it was or was not desirable ...
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... asked . " Besides , there will be plenty more to- morrow , when the sun shines , and mademoiselle will get wet . All was said in as correct English as if an Englishman had spoken , with the ex- ception , of course , of the accent ...
... asked . " Besides , there will be plenty more to- morrow , when the sun shines , and mademoiselle will get wet . All was said in as correct English as if an Englishman had spoken , with the ex- ception , of course , of the accent ...
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... asked if he might pay for her . " Montez , montez , mesdames et mes- sieurs ! Nous commençons tout de suite . Montez , je vous prie ! " a fat woman on the steps of the Arab dancers ' show was calling out . Nance and Etienne heard ...
... asked if he might pay for her . " Montez , montez , mesdames et mes- sieurs ! Nous commençons tout de suite . Montez , je vous prie ! " a fat woman on the steps of the Arab dancers ' show was calling out . Nance and Etienne heard ...
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... asked in plain English . Etienne was politeness itself , and seemed to find great pleasure in his politeness . Rênée was gay ; but then she , likewise , could be always charmingly gay . There was a little more noise in her laugh ...
... asked in plain English . Etienne was politeness itself , and seemed to find great pleasure in his politeness . Rênée was gay ; but then she , likewise , could be always charmingly gay . There was a little more noise in her laugh ...
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... asked . " There is no ' besides . ' Do I not know what you mean ? Do I not know and see the liberty of those English ... asked you to travel with them ! " Rênée asked . " Yes , they did . But I knew the affairs could not wait . " " Bah ...
... asked . " There is no ' besides . ' Do I not know what you mean ? Do I not know and see the liberty of those English ... asked you to travel with them ! " Rênée asked . " Yes , they did . But I knew the affairs could not wait . " " Bah ...
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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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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.