Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many LandsLittle, Brown, 1899 - 499 strani |
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... face ; and , really , we felt as much shame as can reasonably be supposed to visit a man , whose countenance has been hawked about the streets , and sold in shilling numbers . What was to be done ? There was the public , too ; but ...
... face ; and , really , we felt as much shame as can reasonably be supposed to visit a man , whose countenance has been hawked about the streets , and sold in shilling numbers . What was to be done ? There was the public , too ; but ...
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... faces moving ; the farmers had lifted the collars of their frieze coats , and concealed their hands within their sleeves , so as to be perfectly invisible ; and the reverend fathers , putting on dark and dangerous looks , spoke only in ...
... faces moving ; the farmers had lifted the collars of their frieze coats , and concealed their hands within their sleeves , so as to be perfectly invisible ; and the reverend fathers , putting on dark and dangerous looks , spoke only in ...
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... face with our hands . The toil of many a long night , of many a bright hour of sun and wind , was lost to us for- ever , and we may be pardoned if our grief was heavy . " Cheer up , old fellow , " said he , as the last flicker of the ...
... face with our hands . The toil of many a long night , of many a bright hour of sun and wind , was lost to us for- ever , and we may be pardoned if our grief was heavy . " Cheer up , old fellow , " said he , as the last flicker of the ...
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... face , and back again ; the housemaid passing and repassing a dozen times on her way nowhere , with a look half saucy , half shy ; the landlord's son , an abortion of two feet high , a kind of family chief - remembrancer , that sits on ...
... face , and back again ; the housemaid passing and repassing a dozen times on her way nowhere , with a look half saucy , half shy ; the landlord's son , an abortion of two feet high , a kind of family chief - remembrancer , that sits on ...
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... face , a third read out the clauses of the passport , and compared the description with the original . Happily Mr. Moriarty's ignorance of French saved him from the penalty of lis- tening to the comments which were passed upon his nez ...
... face , a third read out the clauses of the passport , and compared the description with the original . Happily Mr. Moriarty's ignorance of French saved him from the penalty of lis- tening to the comments which were passed upon his nez ...
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Stran 191 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Stran 53 - I will not bore my reader with the tiresome cant of "effect," "expression," "force," "depth," and " relief," but, instead of all this, will tell him a short story about the painting, which, if it has no other merit, has at least that of authenticity. Rubens — who, among his other tastes, was a great florist — was very desirous to enlarge his garden, by adding to it a patch of ground adoining.
Stran 191 - With equal taste and judgement it is provided that the deep recesses of the forest, and the ' oak, whose antique root peeps out upon the brook that brawls along the wood,' should be the scenes whence Jaques inculcated his lessons of philosophy and morality.
Stran 242 - Why, soldiers, why Should we be melancholy, boys! Why, soldiers, why? Whose business 'tis to die?
Stran 103 - Northumberland," with troops, was the answer ; and before the words were well out, a banging noise was heard — the ports of the...