The Writings of Mark Twain: see Old Catalog -. 23. The man that corrupted Hadleyburg and other essays and storiesAmerican Publishing Company, 1894 |
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... natural oil ) and then make a thumb- mark on a glass strip , following it with the mark of the ball of each finger in succession . Under this row of faint grease - prints he would write a record on the strip of white paper - thus : JOHN ...
... natural oil ) and then make a thumb- mark on a glass strip , following it with the mark of the ball of each finger in succession . Under this row of faint grease - prints he would write a record on the strip of white paper - thus : JOHN ...
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... natural result followed ; decep- tions intended solely for others gradually grew practically into self - deceptions as well ; the mock reverence became real reverence , the mock obse- quiousness real obsequiousness , the mock homage ...
... natural result followed ; decep- tions intended solely for others gradually grew practically into self - deceptions as well ; the mock reverence became real reverence , the mock obse- quiousness real obsequiousness , the mock homage ...
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... nature . Sometimes she could not go to sleep , even when worn out with fatigue , because her rage boiled so high over the day's experiences with her boy . She would mumble and mutter to herself : - ' He struck me , en I warn't no way to ...
... nature . Sometimes she could not go to sleep , even when worn out with fatigue , because her rage boiled so high over the day's experiences with her boy . She would mumble and mutter to herself : - ' He struck me , en I warn't no way to ...
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... . If the twins could but do some crowning act now to climax it , something unusual , something startling , something to concentrate upon themselves the company's loftiest admiration , something in the nature of Pudd'nhead Wilson 61.
... . If the twins could but do some crowning act now to climax it , something unusual , something startling , something to concentrate upon themselves the company's loftiest admiration , something in the nature of Pudd'nhead Wilson 61.
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Mark Twain. the company's loftiest admiration , something in the nature of an electric surprise- Here a prodigious slam - banging broke out below , and everybody rushed down to see . It was the twins knocking out a classic four - handed ...
Mark Twain. the company's loftiest admiration , something in the nature of an electric surprise- Here a prodigious slam - banging broke out below , and everybody rushed down to see . It was the twins knocking out a classic four - handed ...
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Página 48 - TRAINING is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond ; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Página 12 - ... pots in which grew a breed of geranium whose spread of intensely red blossoms accented the prevailing pink tint of the rose-clad house-front like an explosion of flame. When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there — in sunny weather — stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose.
Página 30 - Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
Página 111 - For he's a jolly good fellow, For he's a jolly good fellow; For he's a jolly good fellow, Which nobody can deny!
Página 19 - Adam was but human — this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent ; then he would have eaten the serpent.
Página 89 - Why were niggers and whites made? What crime did the uncreated first nigger commit that the curse of birth was decreed for him? And why is this awful difference made between white and black? . . . How hard the nigger's fate seems, this morning! — yet until last night such a thought never entered my head.
Página 158 - If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Página 230 - I had a sufficiently hard time with that tale, because it changed itself from a farce to a tragedy while I was going along with it — a most embarrassing circumstance. But what was a great deal worse was, that it was not one story, but two stories tangled together; and they obstructed and interrupted each other at every turn and created no end of confusion and annoyance.
Página 233 - I must simply give her the grand bounce. It grieved me to do it, for after associating with her so much I had come to kind of like her after a fashion, notwithstanding she was such an ass and said such stupid, irritating things and was so nauseatingly sentimental. Still it had to be done. So, at the top of Chapter...
Página 11 - ... plants and terra-cotta pots in which grew a breed of geranium whose spread of intensely red blossoms accented the prevailing pink tint of the rose-clad house-front like an explosion of flame. When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there — in...