The Overland Monthly, Volum 15A. Roman & Company, 1875 |
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Pàgina 18
... fact . This depression grad- ually diminishes farther south , but a canal from the head of the Gulf of Cali- fornia , thirty or forty miles in length , would let the waters of the ocean in , and overflow an area probably twenty to ...
... fact . This depression grad- ually diminishes farther south , but a canal from the head of the Gulf of Cali- fornia , thirty or forty miles in length , would let the waters of the ocean in , and overflow an area probably twenty to ...
Pàgina 27
... fact is , Ray , that I keep the trouble about our land from her , and I must see to that , or have no home for the poor girl . I think the case will be tried soon , and then I can stay at the ranch . " " Can't Forsyth attend to the suit ...
... fact is , Ray , that I keep the trouble about our land from her , and I must see to that , or have no home for the poor girl . I think the case will be tried soon , and then I can stay at the ranch . " " Can't Forsyth attend to the suit ...
Pàgina 29
... fact , indulged in pithy observations on the dual proprietorship of the " Cross- key boys " in the lady which would have demanded personal satisfaction had they reached the ears of Mr. Gale . The second autumn after Daisy's mar- riage ...
... fact , indulged in pithy observations on the dual proprietorship of the " Cross- key boys " in the lady which would have demanded personal satisfaction had they reached the ears of Mr. Gale . The second autumn after Daisy's mar- riage ...
Pàgina 32
... fact that the title to our land was in dispute , lest it should give you needless anxiety ; but the Supreme Court has de- cided against us . In the contest we have sacrificed most of our personal property ; we have lost the Crosskey ...
... fact that the title to our land was in dispute , lest it should give you needless anxiety ; but the Supreme Court has de- cided against us . In the contest we have sacrificed most of our personal property ; we have lost the Crosskey ...
Pàgina 36
... fact that all the other mammalians of the period in which the human race originated have become ex- tinct , and that from similar causes all the early races of mammalians most nearly allied to mankind , also became extinct . Only the ...
... fact that all the other mammalians of the period in which the human race originated have become ex- tinct , and that from similar causes all the early races of mammalians most nearly allied to mankind , also became extinct . Only the ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 137 - No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth...
Pàgina 234 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Pàgina 457 - And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum, and the Three Taverns ; whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.
Pàgina 537 - In the scene that ensued I did not take a hand, But the floor it was strewed Like the leaves on the strand With the cards that Ah Sin had been hiding In the game
Pàgina 141 - But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall...
Pàgina 538 - ... painted The ruddy tints of health On haggard face and form that drooped and fainted In the fierce race for wealth. Till one arose, and from his pack's scant treasure A hoarded volume drew. And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure To hear the tale anew. And then, while round them shadows gathered faster. And as the fire-light fell, He read aloud the book wherein the Master Had writ of "Little Nell.
Pàgina 143 - Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be! Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. He dies, and makes no sign.
Pàgina 141 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Pàgina 538 - ... when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen, And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more. For, in less time than I write it, every member did engage In a warfare with the remnants of a palaeozoic age; And the way they heaved those fossils in their anger was a sin, Till the skull of an old mammoth caved the head of Thompson in.
Pàgina 358 - In the spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast; In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.