Joseph's Coat, Volumen1

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Chatto & Windus, 1881
 

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Página 35 - ... round the corner of the farthest bluff came a figure in fluttering white muslin and a straw hat. His back was turned, and the new-comer, with innocent mirthful mischief in her face, ran tiptoe along the sward, and clapped both hands across his eyes. " Guess who it is," said the newcomer blithely. arm around his neck, and, seeking his left hand with hers, asked with tender solicitude, " What is it, Joe, dear ? What's the matter ? " Young Joe, facing about, kissed her, and took both her hands in...
Página 47 - O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! 3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me : and there are that raise up strife and contention. 4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
Página 187 - Our friend is not himself," said Mr Tinfoil, producing a key bugle ; " but " Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, and rend the knotted oak : and, therefore, will we try the effect of it upon his senses. Mr Tinfoil then played the air in " Midas — " " Pray Goody, please to moderate,
Página 138 - Ill-natured young women, her compeers, said that her hair was ' carroty,' from which I desire you to argue that it was of the colour painters have loved to paint — In gloss and hue the chestnut when the husk Divides three-fold to show the fruit within, as Mr. Tennyson says. Her eyes were hazel and full of mirth and honesty. Her skin was of red rose and white ; not the dead lily colour which poets have so often acd so falsely feigned, but white rose with the faintest live blush in it.
Página 302 - ... and wrecked it, it was held in World Fire & Marine Ins. Co. v Snyder (1942) 190 Okla 271, 122 P2d 812, that the loss was within the coverage of a policy insuring the car against damage caused by theft, notwithstanding the taker's testimony that he had no intention of stealing the same but intended to return it to the place from which he had taken it. The court stated that when, as in the instant case, the evidence shows a taking and an asportation under circumstances from which it might be reasonably...
Página 20 - The Reverend Paul Screed's wrath was seasoned by a certain self-repression and a certain sense of authority. He told himself and he believed it, that he did well to be angry. But, in spite of the fact that he was, according to his lights, a good man, he had a strain of meanness in him. Anger, says the old poet, is a brief madness. It is also a self-revelation, searching as lightning. Young Joe was on his way to the door, hat in hand. The minister, with one hand on the wall and the other grasping...
Página 37 - as your folks are going to drive you away for always — I know better. If you take 'em at their word, and stay away a week, they'll be glad to have you back again.' Young Joe recognised the truth of this observation, but it played such havoc with the heroics of the case that he resented it and pooh-poohed it with a sombre gloom. ' It isn't very kind of you, Dinah...
Página 15 - ... Joseph,' said his mother with placid severity, ' it is better to serve God than Mammon. I can't break the Sabbath by cooking to satisfy your carnal appetit.es.' ' I don't want you to cook for me, mother,' said the young fellow, sorely baited by his own feelings. ' The fowl is well enough, but I am not hungry. That is all.' The mother sighed — and the sigh said plainly, ' I hold my own opinion.' The father set his hand on the young man's shoulder. ' You've been a bit downhearted-like all mornin'....
Página 270 - ... of justice into the hall itself. The hall of justice was small and shabby, and there were fifty or sixty people packed into it like herrings in a barrel. There were hundreds more outside eager for a look at him, doomed for the present to be disappointed. The prisoner was a good-looking young fellow, tall, straight and broadshouldered, scrupulously dressed and groomed. He smoothed his silky mustache nervously with his ringed hand, and stood squarely there, at military ease.

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