Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many LandsLittle, Brown, 1899 - 499 strani |
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... scarcely know which I detest the more ; the insane toryism of the one is about as sickening as the rabid radicalism of the other . The absurd misapprehensions foreigners entertain about us are in nine cases out of ten communicated by ...
... scarcely know which I detest the more ; the insane toryism of the one is about as sickening as the rabid radicalism of the other . The absurd misapprehensions foreigners entertain about us are in nine cases out of ten communicated by ...
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... scarcely have resolved it when he again emerged , but how changed ! The broad beaver had given place to a blue cloth foraging - cap with a gold band around it ; the beard had disappeared totally , and left no successor save a well ...
... scarcely have resolved it when he again emerged , but how changed ! The broad beaver had given place to a blue cloth foraging - cap with a gold band around it ; the beard had disappeared totally , and left no successor save a well ...
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... scarcely felt his weight , as he was dragged along beside them . With one tremendous effort , however , he wrested the near horse's head from the pole , and thus compelling him to cross his forelegs the animal tripped , and came ...
... scarcely felt his weight , as he was dragged along beside them . With one tremendous effort , however , he wrested the near horse's head from the pole , and thus compelling him to cross his forelegs the animal tripped , and came ...
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... scarcely venture to read such a puerile detail . " " Read it at once , Monsieur , " was the stern command . Frank's face became deep - red with shame , as he began thus : " Nine o'clock . I see an ass coming along 32 ARTHUR O'LEARY .
... scarcely venture to read such a puerile detail . " " Read it at once , Monsieur , " was the stern command . Frank's face became deep - red with shame , as he began thus : " Nine o'clock . I see an ass coming along 32 ARTHUR O'LEARY .
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... Scarcely five feet in height , he might measure nearly nine in circumference , and in case of emergency could be used as a sluice - gate should anything happen to the dykes . He was never to be seen before one o'clock in the day , but ...
... Scarcely five feet in height , he might measure nearly nine in circumference , and in case of emergency could be used as a sluice - gate should anything happen to the dykes . He was never to be seen before one o'clock in the day , but ...
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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...