LandmarksMethuen, 1914 - 308 էջ |
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... thought beautiful by the old and found entertaining by the young . He would then pick a lemon verbena leaf and carry it to his mother . On a week - day Rudd would hasten to possess himself of a croquet mallet , but on Sundays no croquet ...
... thought beautiful by the old and found entertaining by the young . He would then pick a lemon verbena leaf and carry it to his mother . On a week - day Rudd would hasten to possess himself of a croquet mallet , but on Sundays no croquet ...
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... Thought Readers arrived . One was blindfolded , while the other passed among the people and asked the blind- folded one to state what he had in his hand . Talk about magic ! These were magicians , if you like . The blindfolded brother ...
... Thought Readers arrived . One was blindfolded , while the other passed among the people and asked the blind- folded one to state what he had in his hand . Talk about magic ! These were magicians , if you like . The blindfolded brother ...
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... Thought Readers and the big negro and the other sun - beetles disappeared till next year . One or two of the niggers came to know Sarah and Rudd quite well , and had little jokes with Sarah , and they were the only performers who ever ...
... Thought Readers and the big negro and the other sun - beetles disappeared till next year . One or two of the niggers came to know Sarah and Rudd quite well , and had little jokes with Sarah , and they were the only performers who ever ...
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... thought of all the performers who would be submerged for ever ; but most of all poor Don Patos . The niggers might get away , the big negro certainly would ; but how could the Don escape with only one leg ? It was weeks before Rudd ...
... thought of all the performers who would be submerged for ever ; but most of all poor Don Patos . The niggers might get away , the big negro certainly would ; but how could the Don escape with only one leg ? It was weeks before Rudd ...
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... thought of all the bad men kept there . Supposing one should get out and break into the Governor's room for revenge " I'm sure you'd like to go through the prison with me , " Uncle Hector said . But Rudd shrank from the idea . He had a ...
... thought of all the bad men kept there . Supposing one should get out and break into the Governor's room for revenge " I'm sure you'd like to go through the prison with me , " Uncle Hector said . But Rudd shrank from the idea . He had a ...
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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.