Overland Monthly: Devoted to the Development of the CountryA. Roman and Company, 1906 |
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Page 17
... turned to his ma- chine and resumed his work . All day , while the shop was filled with dust and the noise of dozens of ma- chines , he lived in a dreamland of his own . When night came and he drew his paltry week's wages , he counted ...
... turned to his ma- chine and resumed his work . All day , while the shop was filled with dust and the noise of dozens of ma- chines , he lived in a dreamland of his own . When night came and he drew his paltry week's wages , he counted ...
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... turned upon the enemy as they saw the bullets tearing the foliage and ripping up the dry soil in the sides of the hill . The captain advanced the troop . There was a yell from the nearby hills beyond the ridge and a horde of insurrectos ...
... turned upon the enemy as they saw the bullets tearing the foliage and ripping up the dry soil in the sides of the hill . The captain advanced the troop . There was a yell from the nearby hills beyond the ridge and a horde of insurrectos ...
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... turned over on his side and coughed violently . The troop gathered up the dead , and Sheeny Cohen was at the head of the line . The moon came up and a lizard croaked dismally from a small tree near the grewsome line of silent forms ...
... turned over on his side and coughed violently . The troop gathered up the dead , and Sheeny Cohen was at the head of the line . The moon came up and a lizard croaked dismally from a small tree near the grewsome line of silent forms ...
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... turned from me without showing any feeling of shame or regret , or anything , but had seemed a bit toppy about her marriage . In her matrimonial bliss she had evidently lost her love for Mother Hubbards and peppermint lozenges . I ...
... turned from me without showing any feeling of shame or regret , or anything , but had seemed a bit toppy about her marriage . In her matrimonial bliss she had evidently lost her love for Mother Hubbards and peppermint lozenges . I ...
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... turning as if lashed to fury by the winds of the gathering storm . The hills and mountains for hours at a time are lost to view , or appear as shadows seen through the leaden gray mist . Myriads of beautiful insects spring into life ...
... turning as if lashed to fury by the winds of the gathering storm . The hills and mountains for hours at a time are lost to view , or appear as shadows seen through the leaden gray mist . Myriads of beautiful insects spring into life ...
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Page 216 - As you are now so once was I; As I am now, so you must be Prepare for death and follow me.
Page 216 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
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Page 117 - Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artist is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful — as the musician gathers his notes, and forms hia chords, until he bring forth from chaos glorious harmony.
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