LandmarksMethuen, 1914 - 308 էջ |
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... knew of a thousand things to do with a box divided into compartments like that , apart alto- gether from such rubbish as needlework . Henry and Anne equally were in raptures . Next came Ernest to join them in ecstasy over a tool - chest ...
... knew of a thousand things to do with a box divided into compartments like that , apart alto- gether from such rubbish as needlework . Henry and Anne equally were in raptures . Next came Ernest to join them in ecstasy over a tool - chest ...
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... knew that you were , and it's a story , a dreadful story . And Jane says you told her to tell it . " 66 Mrs. Sergison drew the boy to her . " " Not at home ' means I don't want to see any callers , " she said . " But it was a story ...
... knew that you were , and it's a story , a dreadful story . And Jane says you told her to tell it . " 66 Mrs. Sergison drew the boy to her . " " Not at home ' means I don't want to see any callers , " she said . " But it was a story ...
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... knew when she had occasion to hold him firmly , which happened now and then when he had been naughty and must be forcibly got back in the house , or when the cod - liver - oil season set in . Certain crusted scraps of nursery wisdom ...
... knew when she had occasion to hold him firmly , which happened now and then when he had been naughty and must be forcibly got back in the house , or when the cod - liver - oil season set in . Certain crusted scraps of nursery wisdom ...
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... knew too , but being an excellent nurse she did not urge that upon him . Such disenchanting truths can be reserved for one's own acquisition in the school of the world ; it is the lenitives with which the instructors of childhood are ...
... knew too , but being an excellent nurse she did not urge that upon him . Such disenchanting truths can be reserved for one's own acquisition in the school of the world ; it is the lenitives with which the instructors of childhood are ...
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... knew it ! And even the conscious teach- ers perhaps instruct best when they are least con- scious . But when the stick was thrown it was splendid . The negro would point to its passage through the air , his great white teeth and wide ...
... knew it ! And even the conscious teach- ers perhaps instruct best when they are least con- scious . But when the stick was thrown it was splendid . The negro would point to its passage through the air , his great white teeth and wide ...
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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.