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... carry in her ` hand - bag or to use on the bureau or sewing table . Many men have three or four to carry on fishing or hunting trips , when playing golf , or to lay on the desk or chiffonier . 40,000,000 Ingersolls already sold and ...
... carry in her ` hand - bag or to use on the bureau or sewing table . Many men have three or four to carry on fishing or hunting trips , when playing golf , or to lay on the desk or chiffonier . 40,000,000 Ingersolls already sold and ...
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... carried swords and fought with them . Loristan gave him the big bared weapon , and stood erect before him . " Repeat these words after me sentence by sen- tence ! " he commanded . And as he spoke them Marco echoed each one loudly and ...
... carried swords and fought with them . Loristan gave him the big bared weapon , and stood erect before him . " Repeat these words after me sentence by sen- tence ! " he commanded . And as he spoke them Marco echoed each one loudly and ...
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... carried with it the savory smell of the cooking supper . All afternoon , the Dia- mond H riders had been arriving ... carrying orders from the foreman , or going down to the post for the mail . When in camp , he assisted the cook , a ...
... carried with it the savory smell of the cooking supper . All afternoon , the Dia- mond H riders had been arriving ... carrying orders from the foreman , or going down to the post for the mail . When in camp , he assisted the cook , a ...
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... carried me into the house behind the others . Oh , how good it was to have Bee and Cousin John back , and Denewood full of people again , as in the old days before the war had come so close to us ! And what a gay table it was when we ...
... carried me into the house behind the others . Oh , how good it was to have Bee and Cousin John back , and Denewood full of people again , as in the old days before the war had come so close to us ! And what a gay table it was when we ...
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... carry the message that brought the children to their own again . And now I must tell you this beautiful thing that hap- pened : After the little hamlet was bereft of her chil- dren , the parents turned sadly back to their homes , while ...
... carry the message that brought the children to their own again . And now I must tell you this beautiful thing that hap- pened : After the little hamlet was bereft of her chil- dren , the parents turned sadly back to their homes , while ...
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ACROSTIC answered arms ARTHUR RACKHAM asked ball Béarn beautiful Beethoven began Bert Jones Billy Billy Piper bloodroot called Christmas Cousin John cried Cynthia DEAR ST Denewood door Dorothy Dyckman Street Elizabeth exclaimed eyes face father feet foot-ball Fred Floyd friends girls gold badge gyroscope hand head heard heart Helen Indian Jacky Jeanne d'Albret Joyce king knew laughed Lazarus League little boy Little Wolf live looked Loristan Lost Prince Marco Margaret Marjorie Mark Twain mother Mummer never NICHOLAS night once play PUZZLES queer red squirrel Reddy Samavia seemed side Silver Badge smile stood stopped story suddenly sure tell things thought Timothy Tiscoquam told Tommy took tree turned voice wait walked watch wish wonderful wood words young
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Page 50 - And, like fowls in a farmyard when barley is scattering. Out came the children running. All the little boys and girls, With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls, And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls Tripping and skipping, ran merrily after The wonderful music with shouting and laughter.
Page 358 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides...
Page 447 - I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon return,...
Page 407 - He shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand against every man and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen.
Page 447 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was...
Page 276 - For Yesterday is but a Dream, And Tomorrow is only a Vision; But Today well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Page 324 - I AM ALL THAT IS, ALL THAT WAS, AND ALL THAT SHALL BE. NO MORTAL MAN HATH MY VEIL UPLIFTED! " "II. HE IS ONE, SELF-EXISTENT, AND TO THAT ONE ALL THINGS OWE THEIR EXISTENCE.
Page 164 - was striking. He had the curly hair, the aquiline nose, and even the aquiline eye — an eye so eagle-like that a second lid would not have surprised me — of an unusual and dominant nature. His eyebrows were very thick and bushy. His dress was careless, and his general manner one of supreme indifference to surroundings and circumstances.
Page 476 - My dear fellow, please don't think that I am unmindful of all your goodness to me at this time, but I do not know what I would do without you. This is going to be a trying winter for me, for I have got to attend to all my duties and at the same tune keep in shape for the hunt. I do not know what I would do if I did not have you to play with. You do all I like to do, and then your advice is always so clear and direct that I somehow feel that I am imposing on you.
Page 320 - One day, a ten-year-old boy was taken to see Beethoven and this is his memory of the visit: " We mounted five or six stories high, . . . and were announced by a rather dirty-looking servant. In a very desolate room, with papers and articles of dress strewn in all directions, bare walls, a few chests, hardly a chair except the rickety one standing by the piano, there was a party of six or eight people. Beethoven was dressed in a jacket and trousers of long, dark goat's hair. They at once reminded...