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... Side , 612 Sedan , The Battle of 472 Famous Gardens • PAGE The : Some 160 • • 138 Selwyn , George , Sayings of 130 • 491 • Shah , Palace of the 152 103 Shakespeare's School 17 TEHERAN , THE CITY OF · 152 • · • 159 Shelley the Poet 206 ...
... Side , 612 Sedan , The Battle of 472 Famous Gardens • PAGE The : Some 160 • • 138 Selwyn , George , Sayings of 130 • 491 • Shah , Palace of the 152 103 Shakespeare's School 17 TEHERAN , THE CITY OF · 152 • · • 159 Shelley the Poet 206 ...
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... 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 wants ...
... 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 wants ...
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... side . The place bears the name of the Double Dykes , and double they are , two huge parallel ramparts , with an artificial ditch between . All the surroundings point to this spot as an ancient stronghold of great strength and ...
... side . The place bears the name of the Double Dykes , and double they are , two huge parallel ramparts , with an artificial ditch between . All the surroundings point to this spot as an ancient stronghold of great strength and ...
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... side storms and tempests have scattered sea- weed , wreck , and wreckage ; and on the other the swollen rivers have left their contributions , too . A happy - looking case- bottle suggests rum , but turns out to be sheep - wash . An old ...
... side storms and tempests have scattered sea- weed , wreck , and wreckage ; and on the other the swollen rivers have left their contributions , too . A happy - looking case- bottle suggests rum , but turns out to be sheep - wash . An old ...
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... side by side . What a contrast ! She , with her delicate youth , her slender grace , he - well , well , there seemed to be some truth under the fear of Amphlett Jones that he was " unsuitable " to mate with the fair girl at his side ...
... side by side . What a contrast ! She , with her delicate youth , her slender grace , he - well , well , there seemed to be some truth under the fear of Amphlett Jones that he was " unsuitable " to mate with the fair girl at his side ...
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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.