Books and BipedsArgus Books, 1947 - 258 pages "In a word, 'Books and Bipeds' is for the most part a selection of paragraphs from my weekly book column in the "Chicago Sunday Tribune'..." -- foreword. |
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Page 58
... took over at the same time her brother , Beatty , who rapidly became a problem . Beatty , a local ne'er - do - well , appears to have nursed private grievances dating from the construction of Kipling's Vermont home , at Brattleboro ...
... took over at the same time her brother , Beatty , who rapidly became a problem . Beatty , a local ne'er - do - well , appears to have nursed private grievances dating from the construction of Kipling's Vermont home , at Brattleboro ...
Page 95
... took place . So she took up the manuscript and burnt it- sorrowfully , reverently , in fear and trembling , she burnt it , a leaf at a time ; and as each leaf was licked up by the flames it seemed to her that a " fresh ray of light and ...
... took place . So she took up the manuscript and burnt it- sorrowfully , reverently , in fear and trembling , she burnt it , a leaf at a time ; and as each leaf was licked up by the flames it seemed to her that a " fresh ray of light and ...
Page 223
... took them along when he departed on his next vaca- tion , worn out with revising the proofs of the sec- ond edition of his standard work on the umlaut . In humorous anticipation of shipwreck , he had caused them to be packed in a water ...
... took them along when he departed on his next vaca- tion , worn out with revising the proofs of the sec- ond edition of his standard work on the umlaut . In humorous anticipation of shipwreck , he had caused them to be packed in a water ...
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