The Ten Books of the Merrymakers, Том 1Marshall Pinckney Wilder Circle Publishing Company, 1908 |
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... Street Car Laffing ... Letter from Mr. Biggs , A ... .. Medieval Discoverer , A ... Melons . Menagerie , The .. Mrs. Johnson .. Muskeeter , The . .... O . W. Holmes 9 .Henry Ward Beecher 212 .. John Boyle O'Reilly 191 ..John Hay 65 ...
... Street Car Laffing ... Letter from Mr. Biggs , A ... .. Medieval Discoverer , A ... Melons . Menagerie , The .. Mrs. Johnson .. Muskeeter , The . .... O . W. Holmes 9 .Henry Ward Beecher 212 .. John Boyle O'Reilly 191 ..John Hay 65 ...
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... Street Poker Club , " from The Thompson Street Poker Club , by Henry Guy Carleton . G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY for " The Tower of London " and " Science and Natural History , " by Charles Farrar Browne ( " Artemus Ward " ) ; " The ...
... Street Poker Club , " from The Thompson Street Poker Club , by Henry Guy Carleton . G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY for " The Tower of London " and " Science and Natural History , " by Charles Farrar Browne ( " Artemus Ward " ) ; " The ...
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... street to our new home in Charlesbridge , through a storm of snow and rain so finely blent by the influences of this fortunate climate , that no flake knew itself from its sister drop , or could be better identified by the people ...
... street to our new home in Charlesbridge , through a storm of snow and rain so finely blent by the influences of this fortunate climate , that no flake knew itself from its sister drop , or could be better identified by the people ...
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... street , which flourished in ragweed and buttercups and daisies , and in the autumn burned , like the borders of nearly all the streets in Charlesbridge , with the pallid azure flame of the succory . The neighbor- hood was in all things ...
... street , which flourished in ragweed and buttercups and daisies , and in the autumn burned , like the borders of nearly all the streets in Charlesbridge , with the pallid azure flame of the succory . The neighbor- hood was in all things ...
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... street was unlighted . Our street was not drained nor graded ; no municipal cart ever came to carry away our ashes ; there was not a water - butt within half a mile to save us from fire , nor more than the one - thousandth part of a ...
... street was unlighted . Our street was not drained nor graded ; no municipal cart ever came to carry away our ashes ; there was not a water - butt within half a mile to save us from fire , nor more than the one - thousandth part of a ...
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Страница 129 - B. is a sensible man ; He stays to his home an' looks arter his folks ; He draws his furrer ez straight ez he can, An' into nobody's tater-patch pokes ; But John P. Robinson he Sez he wunt vote fer Guvener B. My ! ain't it terrible ? Wut shall we du ? We can't never choose him o...
Страница 8 - or an " I tell yeou ")— He would build one shay to beat the taown 'N' the keounty 'n' all the kentry raoun' ; It should be so built that it couldn' break daown :— " Fur," said the Deacon, " 't's mighty plain Thut the weakes' place mus' stan' the strain 'N' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest To make that place uz strong uz the rest.
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Страница 205 - Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, — act in the living present! Heart within, and GOD o'erhead!
Страница 108 - By the first, many a smatterer acquires the reputation of a man of quick parts ; by the other many a dunderpate, like the owl, the stupidest of birds, comes to be considered the very type of wisdom.
Страница 109 - ... a beer barrel on skids. His face, that infallible index of the mind, presented a vast expanse, unfurrowed by those lines and angles which disfigure the human countenance with what is termed expression. Two small gray eyes twinkled feebly in the midst, like two stars of lesser magnitude in a hazy firmament, and his full-fed cheeks, which seemed to have taken toll of every thing that went into his mouth, were curiously mottled and streaked with dusky red, like a spitzenberg apple.