LandmarksMethuen, 1914 - 308 էջ |
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... Bloor , an American , is in London , at Sirridge's Hotel . He has come to Europe as com- missioner for an international art exhibition to be held in New York , and he wants a secretary . It will mean travel , and , I should say , some ...
... Bloor , an American , is in London , at Sirridge's Hotel . He has come to Europe as com- missioner for an international art exhibition to be held in New York , and he wants a secretary . It will mean travel , and , I should say , some ...
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... Bloor's suite , and his gnarled and slightly greasy ground - ash stick and far too comfort- able hat were being taken firmly from him by Mr. Bloor's discreet valet . Rudd was then shown into Mr. Bloor's sitting room and requested to ...
... Bloor's suite , and his gnarled and slightly greasy ground - ash stick and far too comfort- able hat were being taken firmly from him by Mr. Bloor's discreet valet . Rudd was then shown into Mr. Bloor's sitting room and requested to ...
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... Bloor , speaking with a strong American accent , but without any American harshness , offered Rudd a cigarette from a cedar - wood box , and began to talk . With infinite detail and some circumlocution he made Rudd acquainted with the ...
... Bloor , speaking with a strong American accent , but without any American harshness , offered Rudd a cigarette from a cedar - wood box , and began to talk . With infinite detail and some circumlocution he made Rudd acquainted with the ...
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... Bloor was probably more unlike any- one else than anyone had ever been before him : dif- ferentiated from them not only by temperament but by mentality . And as Mr. Bloor went on and on , and his chest swelled under his lovely black tie ...
... Bloor was probably more unlike any- one else than anyone had ever been before him : dif- ferentiated from them not only by temperament but by mentality . And as Mr. Bloor went on and on , and his chest swelled under his lovely black tie ...
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Edward Verrall Lucas. Mr. Bloor concluded , for the time being , by telling Rudd that he liked him more than he had liked ... Bloor's own apartment , where every facility for beautifying the exterior of man , mounted in gold , awaited him ...
Edward Verrall Lucas. Mr. Bloor concluded , for the time being , by telling Rudd that he liked him more than he had liked ... Bloor's own apartment , where every facility for beautifying the exterior of man , mounted in gold , awaited him ...
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Էջ 213 - WILT thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony ? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour, and keep her, in sickness and in health, and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live ? The man shall answer, I Will.
Էջ 214 - Wommn, .• wilt thou have this Man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou obey him, and serve him, love, honour, and keep him in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all others, keep thee only unto him, so long as ye both shall live?
Էջ 124 - One of the most serious thoughts that life provokes is the reflection that we can never tell, at the time, whether a word, a look, a touch, an occurrence of any kind, is trivial or important.
Էջ 20 - Adam and Eve and Pinchme Went down to the river to "bathe. Adam and. Eve got drownded Who do you think was saved?
Էջ 177 - There is only one thing to do and that is to go on down the river.
Էջ 214 - Esther, to be my wedded wife, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, to love and to cherish, till death us do part ; and thereto I plight thee my troth.
Էջ 45 - A starry night for a ramble, In the flowery dell, Through the bush and bramble, Kiss, but never tell!
Էջ 1 - Lucas calls his story a moving-picture novel, because in it he has fried to adapt to the novelist's use the methods of "the gifted gentlemen who apply the severe selective machinery of the cinema.