LandmarksMethuen, 1914 - 308 էջ |
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... gave him a rook- and - rabbit rifle on his sixteenth birthday he was ex- cited enough ; but the event was no landmark . The landmark came a few days later when , in the evening , as dusk was falling , he shot his first rabbit , and on ...
... gave him a rook- and - rabbit rifle on his sixteenth birthday he was ex- cited enough ; but the event was no landmark . The landmark came a few days later when , in the evening , as dusk was falling , he shot his first rabbit , and on ...
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... gave it a sovereign and was much entertained by the way in which the baby treated it . Rudd at once allowed his coin to fall on the floor . " Tut , tut ! a spendthrift ! " said his grandfather , chuckling . In the pocket of the first ...
... gave it a sovereign and was much entertained by the way in which the baby treated it . Rudd at once allowed his coin to fall on the floor . " Tut , tut ! a spendthrift ! " said his grandfather , chuckling . In the pocket of the first ...
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... gave a spring and another victim was in its jaws . All unexpected too - what a red letter Sun- day morning for it ! Then Rudd realized that this little bird had but just left the nest , and was learning to fly . A favourite nursery poem ...
... gave a spring and another victim was in its jaws . All unexpected too - what a red letter Sun- day morning for it ! Then Rudd realized that this little bird had but just left the nest , and was learning to fly . A favourite nursery poem ...
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... gave him Pickwick when he was six , and David Copperfield when he was seven , and Thomas Edwards , the Scotch Naturalist , when he was eight , and The Ingoldsby Legends when he was nine , and The Three Musketeers when he was ten . Uncle ...
... gave him Pickwick when he was six , and David Copperfield when he was seven , and Thomas Edwards , the Scotch Naturalist , when he was eight , and The Ingoldsby Legends when he was nine , and The Three Musketeers when he was ten . Uncle ...
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... gave him also little pictures for his room - not the coloured soap pictures , or puppies and kittens from Christmas numbers , but beautiful faces after drawings by Leonardo and Raphael , and Dürer's " White Horse , " and " St. Jerome ...
... gave him also little pictures for his room - not the coloured soap pictures , or puppies and kittens from Christmas numbers , but beautiful faces after drawings by Leonardo and Raphael , and Dürer's " White Horse , " and " St. Jerome ...
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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.