Progressive Readings in ProseRudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton Doubleday, Page, 1923 - 376 páginas |
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... face were the two furrows down his cheeks , so deep and hollow that it seemed as though that face were a collection of bones without co- 1 From The Inn of Tranquility , copyright , 1912 , by Charles Scribner's Sons . By permis- sion of ...
... face were the two furrows down his cheeks , so deep and hollow that it seemed as though that face were a collection of bones without co- 1 From The Inn of Tranquility , copyright , 1912 , by Charles Scribner's Sons . By permis- sion of ...
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... face . " You may say that , " he said . " Well , what does it amount to ? Before I picked you up , I had one eighteenpenny fare to- day ; and yesterday I took five shillings . And I've got seven bob a day to pay for the cab , and that's ...
... face . " You may say that , " he said . " Well , what does it amount to ? Before I picked you up , I had one eighteenpenny fare to- day ; and yesterday I took five shillings . And I've got seven bob a day to pay for the cab , and that's ...
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... face that they like you , and occasionally they also have very little hesitation in tell- ing you that they do not like you . They say frankly just what they think . It is immaterial to them that their remarks are personal ...
... face that they like you , and occasionally they also have very little hesitation in tell- ing you that they do not like you . They say frankly just what they think . It is immaterial to them that their remarks are personal ...
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... face , in addition . It was probably a Cooper's hawk . But I could see the four crows fly over him , and dart down every few feet to take a peck at his head . Meanwhile the crows which remained be- hind kept up an incessant racket in ...
... face , in addition . It was probably a Cooper's hawk . But I could see the four crows fly over him , and dart down every few feet to take a peck at his head . Meanwhile the crows which remained be- hind kept up an incessant racket in ...
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... face of the little fellow peering from a hole , and watched it fade mysteriously from sight as I drew near , much like the Cheshire cat when conversing with Alice . However , if you poked your hand down into the hole , it was no spirit ...
... face of the little fellow peering from a hole , and watched it fade mysteriously from sight as I drew near , much like the Cheshire cat when conversing with Alice . However , if you poked your hand down into the hole , it was no spirit ...
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Página 212 - Does not every American feel that assurance has been added to our hope for the future peace of the world by the wonderful and heartening things that have been happening within the last few weeks in Russia? Russia was known by those who knew it best to have been always in fact democratic at heart...
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Página 71 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit.
Página 69 - Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will they when it were reason, but are impatient of privateness, even in age and sickness, which require the shadow ; like old townsmen, that will be still sitting at their street door, though thereby they offer age to scorn.
Página 212 - We are accepting this challenge of hostile purpose because we know that in such a Government, following such methods, we can never have a friend ; and that in the presence of its organized power, always lying in wait to accomplish we know not what purpose, there can be no assured security for the democratic Governments of the world.
Página 211 - While we do these things, these deeply momentous things, let us be very clear, and make very clear to all the world what our motives and our objects are. My own thought has not been driven from its habitual and normal course by the unhappy events of the last two months, and I do not believe that the thought of the nation has been altered or clouded by them.
Página 30 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, As a seal upon thine arm : For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as the grave: The coals thereof are coals of fire, Which hath a most vehement flame.
Página 141 - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
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