The Overland Monthly, Volum 15A. Roman & Company, 1875 |
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Pàgina 25
... thing of ex- quisite curves and dimples . Her white shoulders gleamed through a lace sacque and her round arms were girt by dia- mond bracelets . Her movements had the easy grace of a being reared in ele- gant leisure ; her voice the ...
... thing of ex- quisite curves and dimples . Her white shoulders gleamed through a lace sacque and her round arms were girt by dia- mond bracelets . Her movements had the easy grace of a being reared in ele- gant leisure ; her voice the ...
Pàgina 33
... thing than this . A stalwart miner dealt a stroke , And struck a buried beam of oak ; An old ship's beam the shaft appeared , With storm - worn faded figure - head . The miner twisted his long beard , Leaned on his pickaxe as he spoke ...
... thing than this . A stalwart miner dealt a stroke , And struck a buried beam of oak ; An old ship's beam the shaft appeared , With storm - worn faded figure - head . The miner twisted his long beard , Leaned on his pickaxe as he spoke ...
Pàgina 39
... thing , she had been heard to observe , meditatively , that if Tildy's nose had kept on as it commen- ced it would have been a " kuiosity . " Her chin and forehead were of that style of beauty known as " retreating ; " so that the ...
... thing , she had been heard to observe , meditatively , that if Tildy's nose had kept on as it commen- ced it would have been a " kuiosity . " Her chin and forehead were of that style of beauty known as " retreating ; " so that the ...
Pàgina 40
... thing would he lose the chance of pump- ing the last drop of excitement or inter- est out of each day . He can sleep when he can not do anything else . It was he who was doing the most of the talking , and the best of the listening that ...
... thing would he lose the chance of pump- ing the last drop of excitement or inter- est out of each day . He can sleep when he can not do anything else . It was he who was doing the most of the talking , and the best of the listening that ...
Pàgina 43
... thing just as it should be . I can not tell who first gave him the name , but it was fastened on him firmly before he had been with us a fortnight . He accepted it humbly , of course ; and if he pitied the ignorance and want of taste ...
... thing just as it should be . I can not tell who first gave him the name , but it was fastened on him firmly before he had been with us a fortnight . He accepted it humbly , of course ; and if he pitied the ignorance and want of taste ...
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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.