All the Year RoundChapman and Hall, 1891 |
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... morning a bunch the sweet strains of the last opéra bouffe of daphne was brought to Nance . " Who from ? " Monsieur did not give his name , " the waiter answered . " Oh ! it's the cousin . " Nance was blushing a little - a very little ...
... morning a bunch the sweet strains of the last opéra bouffe of daphne was brought to Nance . " Who from ? " Monsieur did not give his name , " the waiter answered . " Oh ! it's the cousin . " Nance was blushing a little - a very little ...
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... morning for the matinée , and as she dis- appeared forthwith , Humphrey turned to Helen with the smile which no one else ever saw . " Morning orders take a long time , " he said . " Have you wanted me , dear ? " she asked . " Of course ...
... morning for the matinée , and as she dis- appeared forthwith , Humphrey turned to Helen with the smile which no one else ever saw . " Morning orders take a long time , " he said . " Have you wanted me , dear ? " she asked . " Of course ...
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... morning and evening , and do this xxi days ; and if this Fever will not be holpen in that time , let them beware of wagging in the gallows ; and whiles they do take their medicine , put in lubberwort into their pottage , and beware of ...
... morning and evening , and do this xxi days ; and if this Fever will not be holpen in that time , let them beware of wagging in the gallows ; and whiles they do take their medicine , put in lubberwort into their pottage , and beware of ...
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... morning , when it came , seemed to Helen unusually lengthy . She had suffered a good deal in a small way from the difficulties which were always arising from the estrangement between Selma and the Cornishes , and she was proportionately ...
... morning , when it came , seemed to Helen unusually lengthy . She had suffered a good deal in a small way from the difficulties which were always arising from the estrangement between Selma and the Cornishes , and she was proportionately ...
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... morning without seeing her sister . Humphrey had told her , after Selma had gone to bed the night before , of his brother's engagement . She had seen that there was a letter in Mervyn's writing for Selma that morning , and she had ...
... morning without seeing her sister . Humphrey had told her , after Selma had gone to bed the night before , of his brother's engagement . She had seen that there was a letter in Mervyn's writing for Selma that morning , and she had ...
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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.