Overland Monthly: Devoted to the Development of the CountryA. Roman and Company, 1906 |
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Page 39
... seemed the whole neighborhood was gathered , or rather the feminine half , for there was but a sprinkling of males pres- ent . As one of these rare birds , I was most cordially greeted by the happy father , who at once insisted on my ...
... seemed the whole neighborhood was gathered , or rather the feminine half , for there was but a sprinkling of males pres- ent . As one of these rare birds , I was most cordially greeted by the happy father , who at once insisted on my ...
Page 53
... seemed to be on all sides of me , some plainly visible , others hidden away in the foliage ; and their noisy reiterations filled me with disgust . I could recognize among others the yellow - hammer's bubbling cry as it rose and fell ...
... seemed to be on all sides of me , some plainly visible , others hidden away in the foliage ; and their noisy reiterations filled me with disgust . I could recognize among others the yellow - hammer's bubbling cry as it rose and fell ...
Page 54
... seemed familiar to me . But how ? I knew that I'd never seen him before . I pledge you my word , for the moment I was completely puzzled . I could not catch the connection . Then , like a flash , it came to me .. " The most detestable ...
... seemed familiar to me . But how ? I knew that I'd never seen him before . I pledge you my word , for the moment I was completely puzzled . I could not catch the connection . Then , like a flash , it came to me .. " The most detestable ...
Page 55
... seemed certain . He struck at me savagely with his terrible beak . The stroke grazed my body . It stirred me to action . I leaped as I had never leaped before , in a per- fect frenzy of haste and terror , my enemy after me . Spring ...
... seemed certain . He struck at me savagely with his terrible beak . The stroke grazed my body . It stirred me to action . I leaped as I had never leaped before , in a per- fect frenzy of haste and terror , my enemy after me . Spring ...
Page 57
... seemed to rest on their youth ; the ground about their feet , although it bore the marks of recent cultivation , looked dry and strange , and a sickly blue tint shadowed its brown . A rude but closely built fence protected the little ...
... seemed to rest on their youth ; the ground about their feet , although it bore the marks of recent cultivation , looked dry and strange , and a sickly blue tint shadowed its brown . A rude but closely built fence protected the little ...
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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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