LandmarksMethuen, 1914 - 308 էջ |
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... remarked Mr. Hoadley . " Me not going ? " Rudd answered with surprise and misgiving . " How could you bring yourself to take part in selling beasts for folks to eat ? " was the Socratic reply . Rudd felt that he was up against more ...
... remarked Mr. Hoadley . " Me not going ? " Rudd answered with surprise and misgiving . " How could you bring yourself to take part in selling beasts for folks to eat ? " was the Socratic reply . Rudd felt that he was up against more ...
Էջ 71
... remarked , when the first party had left , that he was sure his pater would be jolly stuffy about it — a statement which led to a series of similar avowals , with mater here and there substituted as the jolly stuffy one . Still , the ...
... remarked , when the first party had left , that he was sure his pater would be jolly stuffy about it — a statement which led to a series of similar avowals , with mater here and there substituted as the jolly stuffy one . Still , the ...
Էջ 108
... remarked that he had decided that his boy should be a medical man . " A noble profession , " he would say . " A fine thing , healing one's fellow - creatures , " he would say . " The great fight with pain and disease , don't you know ...
... remarked that he had decided that his boy should be a medical man . " A noble profession , " he would say . " A fine thing , healing one's fellow - creatures , " he would say . " The great fight with pain and disease , don't you know ...
Էջ 147
... remarked that she would prefer to sit out . Why total strangers should suddenly grasp each other's bodies and twist and twirl about to music , he had never understood ; nor would he , he was certain , ever acquire any ease in the per ...
... remarked that she would prefer to sit out . Why total strangers should suddenly grasp each other's bodies and twist and twirl about to music , he had never understood ; nor would he , he was certain , ever acquire any ease in the per ...
Էջ 156
... remarked , leaning on her elbow and turn- ing her eyes full on him . Rudd had been wondering too . He avoided her eyes , and said nothing . " I suppose it's the masculine side of me that ap- peals to you , " she continued , all ...
... remarked , leaning on her elbow and turn- ing her eyes full on him . Rudd had been wondering too . He avoided her eyes , and said nothing . " I suppose it's the masculine side of me that ap- peals to you , " she continued , all ...
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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.