LandmarksMethuen, 1914 - 308 էջ |
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... kind . My narrative ought perhaps to do the same ; but instead I have chosen a later starting - point , and thereafter have endeavoured― passing Rudd's career in review - to put myself in the place of the gifted gentlemen who apply the ...
... kind . My narrative ought perhaps to do the same ; but instead I have chosen a later starting - point , and thereafter have endeavoured― passing Rudd's career in review - to put myself in the place of the gifted gentlemen who apply the ...
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... kind old gentleman had laid a sixpence on his open palm and awaited events . At " Sunnyside , " Rudd's grandfather's house , cer- tain toys were kept for grandchildren on their visits- toys which had already satisfied more than one gen ...
... kind old gentleman had laid a sixpence on his open palm and awaited events . At " Sunnyside , " Rudd's grandfather's house , cer- tain toys were kept for grandchildren on their visits- toys which had already satisfied more than one gen ...
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... a paint - box of polished mahogany , with two layers of lustrous cakes of paint ( the old hard kind ) , with their names under each : cobalt , vermilion , mad- der brown , crimson lake ( so pleasant to the ΙΟ LANDMARKS.
... a paint - box of polished mahogany , with two layers of lustrous cakes of paint ( the old hard kind ) , with their names under each : cobalt , vermilion , mad- der brown , crimson lake ( so pleasant to the ΙΟ LANDMARKS.
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... kind and unselfish . With his questions as to the darker side of the world she fenced , or put him off with the remark that there were certain things we were not intended to under- stand . Her belief that a Providence had placed us here ...
... kind and unselfish . With his questions as to the darker side of the world she fenced , or put him off with the remark that there were certain things we were not intended to under- stand . Her belief that a Providence had placed us here ...
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... kind to him , and took him to his shed and bathed his face and put a cold key down his back . Altogether Rudd thought him the nicest casual acquaintance he had ever met . When he went in to tea and was asked how he had been spending the ...
... kind to him , and took him to his shed and bathed his face and put a cold key down his back . Altogether Rudd thought him the nicest casual acquaintance he had ever met . When he went in to tea and was asked how he had been spending the ...
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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.