Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many LandsLittle, Brown, 1899 - 499 strani |
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Stran 13
... weeks ' time he hoped to be in Africa , having promised to spend the Christ- mas with Abd - el - Kader , we were left his sole literary exec- utor , with full power to edit him in any shape it might please us , lopping , cutting ...
... weeks ' time he hoped to be in Africa , having promised to spend the Christ- mas with Abd - el - Kader , we were left his sole literary exec- utor , with full power to edit him in any shape it might please us , lopping , cutting ...
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... weeks in the country , than among such as had never vis- ited our shores . With the former , the Thames Tunnel is our national boast ; raw beef and boxing our national predi- lections ; the public sale of our wives a national practice ...
... weeks in the country , than among such as had never vis- ited our shores . With the former , the Thames Tunnel is our national boast ; raw beef and boxing our national predi- lections ; the public sale of our wives a national practice ...
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... week , that a calèche , travel - stained and dirty , drove into the court of the minister's hotel , and five min- utes after , Frank , wearied and exhausted , was ushered into M. de Louvois ' presence . " Well , Monsieur , " said he ...
... week , that a calèche , travel - stained and dirty , drove into the court of the minister's hotel , and five min- utes after , Frank , wearied and exhausted , was ushered into M. de Louvois ' presence . " Well , Monsieur , " said he ...
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... week of December ; the frost was setting in , and I resolved to pay a visit to my brother , whom I had n't seen for forty years : he was burgomaster of Antwerp . It is a long voyage and a perilous one , but with the protection of ...
... week of December ; the frost was setting in , and I resolved to pay a visit to my brother , whom I had n't seen for forty years : he was burgomaster of Antwerp . It is a long voyage and a perilous one , but with the protection of ...
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... weekly score with your hotel - keeper , under the pleasant delusion that you are to dine out four days out of the seven . Alas and alack ! the ambassador does n't keep open house for his rapparee coun- trymen ; his hôtel is no shelter ...
... weekly score with your hotel - keeper , under the pleasant delusion that you are to dine out four days out of the seven . Alas and alack ! the ambassador does n't keep open house for his rapparee coun- trymen ; his hôtel is no shelter ...
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acquaintance admirable amusing Antwerp Arthur O'Leary Aubuisson beside Boitsfort burgomaster called character château colonel companion cried dark delightful Dinant dinner door dressed endeavored English Erfurt Ettenheim eyes face fear feel felt Flemish followed fortune Frankfort French German give Givet Göttingen habits half Halsdt hand happy head heard heart honor horses host Hôtel de France hour kind knew lady laughing Laura leave live look louis-d'ors Meuse mind Monsieur morning mountain Napoleon never night Norvins O'Kelly once party passed passion Père pleasant pleasure replied Rhine road Saint Christopher scarcely scene Scheldt schiedam seemed seen side smile speak spirit spoke stood story strange table d'hôte taste tell there's thing thought tion tone took traveller turned Tyrol Vandyck voice walked whole wild wish word
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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...