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... wife ; and , as soon as possible , we started out together to see the town . It was certainly a novel experience to walk through the streets of Nassau . At first it seemed to us as if the NASSAU HARBOR . " GIVE US A SMALL COPPER , BOSS ...
... wife ; and , as soon as possible , we started out together to see the town . It was certainly a novel experience to walk through the streets of Nassau . At first it seemed to us as if the NASSAU HARBOR . " GIVE US A SMALL COPPER , BOSS ...
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... wives to call upon queens , but on one fine Sunday afternoon , the wife of a governor - not the governor of the Bahamas - did ... wife accompanied us to her house . On the way I took a few lessons in African from our obliging guide , and ...
... wives to call upon queens , but on one fine Sunday afternoon , the wife of a governor - not the governor of the Bahamas - did ... wife accompanied us to her house . On the way I took a few lessons in African from our obliging guide , and ...
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... wife lookin ' this a - way ! " Whereupon he began to weep in a maudlin fashion and the men burst into a guffaw , Jim Peters declaring that he ' lowed Wash would preach his own funeral sermon when he was dead . But Roxy went home cry ...
... wife lookin ' this a - way ! " Whereupon he began to weep in a maudlin fashion and the men burst into a guffaw , Jim Peters declaring that he ' lowed Wash would preach his own funeral sermon when he was dead . But Roxy went home cry ...
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... wife and three little children were pretty nigh starving . That little fool of a Roxy picked blackberries three Saturdays hand- running and brought them into town three miles , and sold them and gave all the money to the old woman . But ...
... wife and three little children were pretty nigh starving . That little fool of a Roxy picked blackberries three Saturdays hand- running and brought them into town three miles , and sold them and gave all the money to the old woman . But ...
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... wife , was unwilling to leave her room ; but she insisted upon his going out with me to take a walk and recover his land - legs . The early autumn day was warm and charming , and our stroll through the bright - colored , busy streets of ...
... wife , was unwilling to leave her room ; but she insisted upon his going out with me to take a walk and recover his land - legs . The early autumn day was warm and charming , and our stroll through the bright - colored , busy streets of ...
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Página 429 - THIS is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...
Página 297 - So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Página 396 - I shall correct the procedure ; but that done, return with joy to that state of things, when the only questions concerning a candidate shall be, is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution ? I tender you the homage of my high respect.
Página 448 - Noah kep' a-nailin' an' a-chippin' an' a-sawin'; An' all de wicked neighbors kep' a-laughin' an' a-pshawin' ; But Noah didn't min' 'em, knowin' whut wuz gwine to happen: An' forty days an' forty nights de rain it kep' a-drappin'. Now, Noah had done cotched a lot ob ebry sort o' beas'es — Ob all de shows a-trabbelin', it beat 'em all to pieces ! He had a Morgan colt an' sebral head o' Jarsey cattle — An' druv 'em 'board de Ark as soon's he heered de thunder rattle.
Página 594 - O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n : young boys and girls Are level now with men ; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.
Página 404 - I have asked myself so often why I should be a poet more than other men, seeing how great a thing it is, — how great things are to be gained by it, what a thing to be in the mouth of Fame, — that at last the idea has grown so monstrously beyond my seeming power of attainment, that the other day I nearly consented with myself to drop into a Phaethon.
Página 135 - I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
Página 284 - The Spanish Conquest in America, and its Relation to the History of Slavery and to the Government of Colonies. By ARTHUR HELPS. 4 vols. 8vo. £3. VOLS. I. & II. 28s. VOLS. III. & IV. 16s. each. History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin.
Página 638 - But these are all lies : men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Página 259 - may go and play," While I manage the world by myself. But harness me down with your iron bands, Be sure of your curb and rein, For I scorn the strength of your puny hands As the tempest scorns a chain.