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Pàgina 15
... round corners with a rapid scientific round- hand whirl , that sends the hot prickly dust tingling through every crevice of our clothing - and all this with an ingenious and malignant persistency which is almost like the intelligent ...
... round corners with a rapid scientific round- hand whirl , that sends the hot prickly dust tingling through every crevice of our clothing - and all this with an ingenious and malignant persistency which is almost like the intelligent ...
Pàgina 16
... round the Chris- tian quarter of Damascus . And now , over the ' Wal , ' replied the Yankee , looking appealingly upward , as if invoking a thunderbolt for our espe- cial benefit , I guess , if yu think that scramblin ' up that air ...
... round the Chris- tian quarter of Damascus . And now , over the ' Wal , ' replied the Yankee , looking appealingly upward , as if invoking a thunderbolt for our espe- cial benefit , I guess , if yu think that scramblin ' up that air ...
Pàgina 19
... round with a string ; and then to clip the paper close and neat , all round , until it looked as smart as a pot of ointment from an apothecary's shop . When a certain number of grosses of pots had attained this pitch of perfection , I ...
... round with a string ; and then to clip the paper close and neat , all round , until it looked as smart as a pot of ointment from an apothecary's shop . When a certain number of grosses of pots had attained this pitch of perfection , I ...
Pàgina 34
... round curve the Norman masons would have used , and the next the acute arch that was to come into exclusive use ... rounded , notwith- standing the sweeping winds and passionate rains ; for it was rigorously perfect , to begin with . The ...
... round curve the Norman masons would have used , and the next the acute arch that was to come into exclusive use ... rounded , notwith- standing the sweeping winds and passionate rains ; for it was rigorously perfect , to begin with . The ...
Pàgina 44
... round and round like a great stone , the boy as pale as death ; the horses were strugg- ling , and plashing , and snorting like sea - animals , and we were all roaring to the driver to throw himself off , and let them and the coach go ...
... round and round like a great stone , the boy as pale as death ; the horses were strugg- ling , and plashing , and snorting like sea - animals , and we were all roaring to the driver to throw himself off , and let them and the coach go ...
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Chambers's Edinburgh journal, conducted by W. Chambers. [Continued ..., Volum 15 Chambers's journal Visualització completa - 1861 |
Chambers's Edinburgh journal, conducted by W. Chambers. [Continued ..., Volum 1 Chambers's journal Visualització completa - 1854 |
Chambers's Edinburgh journal, conducted by W. Chambers. [Continued as ... Chambers's journal Visualització completa - 1874 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 231 - Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase. For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
Pàgina 20 - I have been Tom Jones (a child's Tom Jones, a harmless creature) for a week together. I have sustained my own idea of Roderick Random for a month at a stretch, I verily believe.
Pàgina 20 - When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life. Every barn in the neighbourhood, every stone in the church, and every foot of the churchyard, had some association of its own, in my mind, connected with these books, and stood for some locality made famous in them.
Pàgina 21 - It is wonderful to me how I could have been so easily cast away at such an age. It is wonderful to me, that, even after my descent into the poor little drudge I had been since we came to London, no one had compassion enough on me — a child of singular abilities, quick, eager, delicate, and soon hurt, bodily or mentally...
Pàgina 3 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Pàgina 231 - Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations : ask thy father, and he will shew thee ; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
Pàgina 400 - ... of the institution would have had a conspicuous place in that court which presents two lofty domes and two graceful colonnades to the multitudes who are perpetually passing up and down the imperial river. But that part of the plan was never carried into effect; and few of those who now gaze on the noblest of European hospitals are aware that it is a memorial of the virtues of the good Queen Mary, of the love and sorrow of William, and of the great victory of La Hogue.
Pàgina 22 - They asked me a good many questions ; as, what my name was, how old I was, where I lived, how I was employed, and how I came there.
Pàgina 345 - They precisely suit my taste, — solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and through the inspiration of ale, and just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump of earth and put it under a glass case, with all its inhabitants going about their daily business, and not suspecting that they were being made a show of.
Pàgina 46 - It is nothing that I have a claim to speak and be heard. The wonder is that a breathing man can be found with temerity enough to suggest to the Americans the possibility of their having done wrong.