All the Year RoundChapman and Hall, 1895 |
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... better ask her husband for them .- " Yes . Duddel would give the coat off his back to the first dirty tramp who had impudence enough to ask for it , but his lawful wife's another matter altogether . I declare to you , Mr. Maitland , I ...
... better ask her husband for them .- " Yes . Duddel would give the coat off his back to the first dirty tramp who had impudence enough to ask for it , but his lawful wife's another matter altogether . I declare to you , Mr. Maitland , I ...
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... better , " or " " go it blind , " or " go Democrat , " or " go the whole hog . " Not much choice in the way of elegance , it must be confessed . Gotten , as the participle of the verb to get , is common enough in the States , but it is ...
... better , " or " " go it blind , " or " go Democrat , " or " go the whole hog . " Not much choice in the way of elegance , it must be confessed . Gotten , as the participle of the verb to get , is common enough in the States , but it is ...
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... considerably annoyed ; two angry dashes of colour on her cheeks made themselves visible through her carefully prepared colouring . " You'd better not be too hard on this one Charles Dickens . ] 47 RICHENDA . [ January 12 , 1895. ]
... considerably annoyed ; two angry dashes of colour on her cheeks made themselves visible through her carefully prepared colouring . " You'd better not be too hard on this one Charles Dickens . ] 47 RICHENDA . [ January 12 , 1895. ]
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... better not be too hard on this one , " laughed Mrs. Milton ; " Mr. Kenna- way has just been telling us that she is very pretty . He admires her excessively . " " Pretty ? That she certainly is not ! " The words almost burst from Mrs ...
... better not be too hard on this one , " laughed Mrs. Milton ; " Mr. Kenna- way has just been telling us that she is very pretty . He admires her excessively . " " Pretty ? That she certainly is not ! " The words almost burst from Mrs ...
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... better ; but when all the work of the little shanty was done , and I sat down by the stove , the heavy atmosphere began to depress me again . All the stories I had ever read or heard of blizzards crowded into my memory to keep each ...
... better ; but when all the work of the little shanty was done , and I sat down by the stove , the heavy atmosphere began to depress me again . All the stories I had ever read or heard of blizzards crowded into my memory to keep each ...
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Página 51 - I require and charge you both, as ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confess it. For be ye well assured, that if any persons are joined together otherwise than as God's word doth allow, their marriage is not lawful.
Página 244 - And not a moonbeam enters here. But they without its light can see The chamber carved so curiously, Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain, For a lady's chamber meet : The lamp with twofold silver chain Is fastened to an angel's feet.
Página 86 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Página 101 - A wife is half the man, his truest friend ; A loving wife is a perpetual spring Of virtue, pleasure, wealth ; a faithful wife Is his best aid in seeking heavenly bliss ; A sweetly-speaking wife is a companion In solitude, a father in advice, A mother in all seasons of distress, A rest in passing through life's wilderness.
Página 125 - boughs', with their buddings and disleafings, - events, things suffered, things done, catastrophes, - stretch through all lands and times. Is not every leaf of it a biography, every fibre there an act or word? Its boughs are Histories of Nations. The rustle of it is the noise of Human Existence, onwards from of old. It grows there, the breath of Human Passion rustling through it; - or stormtost, the stormwind howling through it like the voice of all the gods.
Página 96 - ... in every Anglo-Indian home. The other brands, we are happy to say, are now relegated to the native bazaars, and, judging from their sale, we fancy their sojourn there will be but evanescent ¿ We could multiply instances ad...
Página 144 - For my own part, I cannot but think it exceedingly ridiculous to hear some men talk of the circumference of the earth, pretending, without the smallest reason or probability, that the ocean encompasses the earth ; that the earth is round, as if mechanically formed so ; and that Asia is equal to Europe.
Página 146 - ... between its two staves, he heaped the incense on the live coals, and the whole house was entirely filled with smoke. He went out, and returned by the way of his entrance, and he offered a short prayer in the outer house, and he did not prolong his prayer, lest he should excite terror 2 in Israel. 2. When the ark was removed, a stone was there from the days of the first prophets, and it was called
Página 147 - I have said before ; and as men go upward to one part, they go downward to another. Also you have heard me say that Jerusalem is in the middle of the world ; and that may be proved and shown there by a spear which is fixed in the earth at the hour of midday, when it is equinoxial, which gives no shadow on any side.