The day's workCharles Scribner's Sons, 1899 |
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... laughed ; and the farmer put his head out of a window and said that Evans was no gentleman . But .007 was very sober . He had never seen a wreck before , and it frightened him . The crew still laughed , but they worked at the same time ...
... laughed ; and the farmer put his head out of a window and said that Evans was no gentleman . But .007 was very sober . He had never seen a wreck before , and it frightened him . The crew still laughed , but they worked at the same time ...
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... laughed . The reins were caught up anyhow in the tips of his strapped left hand , and he never pretended to rely on them . He knew The Cat would answer to the least pressure of the leg , and by way of show- ing off - for his shoulder ...
... laughed . The reins were caught up anyhow in the tips of his strapped left hand , and he never pretended to rely on them . He knew The Cat would answer to the least pressure of the leg , and by way of show- ing off - for his shoulder ...
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... laughed or shivered with a simple heart ; and she introduced me to a new world of doctors ' wives , captains ' wives , and engineers ' wives , whose whole talk and thought centred in and about ships and lines of ships you have never ...
... laughed or shivered with a simple heart ; and she introduced me to a new world of doctors ' wives , captains ' wives , and engineers ' wives , whose whole talk and thought centred in and about ships and lines of ships you have never ...
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... laughed aloud together . " It was left , " said McPhee , choking . “ Ou , ay , it was left . That's vara good . Of course it was left . Janet , ď ye note that ? It was left . Now if you'd put that in your pamphlet it would have been ...
... laughed aloud together . " It was left , " said McPhee , choking . “ Ou , ay , it was left . That's vara good . Of course it was left . Janet , ď ye note that ? It was left . Now if you'd put that in your pamphlet it would have been ...
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... laughed at it . But the warst was at the last . She'd a great clumsy iron twelve - foot Thresher propeller — Aitcheson designed the Kite's - an ' just on the tail o ' the shaft , behind the boss , was a red weepin ' crack ye could ha ...
... laughed at it . But the warst was at the last . She'd a great clumsy iron twelve - foot Thresher propeller — Aitcheson designed the Kite's - an ' just on the tail o ' the shaft , behind the boss , was a red weepin ' crack ye could ha ...
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ain't ambulance Archangels auld Badalia ball Bell Benami bloomin Board boat body-snatcher Breslau Brugglesmith Buchonian buggle Calder called cars Cottar curate curick Dempsey dinghy dinner doctor dreams drink engine-room engineer Eustace Hanna eyes Faiz-Ullah freight Georgie girl grey Grey Dawn Grotkau Gunnison Street half hand head heard Herodsfoot Holdock hot-box hundred Induna Janet Jenny keep Kite Kittiwynk knew Laddie Lammergeyer Larut Lascar Loo's mother laughed looked Lutyens Maltese Cat Master Georgie McPhee McRimmon miles minute Mogul navvy never night passengers play Polaris policeman Poney ponies pound Powell Purple Emperor road round RUDYARD KIPLING Sargent Shikast Shiraz shouted side Sister Eva Skidars Steiner talk tell There's things Thirty-Mile Ride thought told took track Visigoth voice What's wife Wilton woman yards Yon's young Bannister
Pasajes populares
Página 191 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Página 38 - O TRINITY of love and power, Our brethren shield in danger's hour ; From rock and tempest, fire and foe, Protect them wheresoe'er they go ; Thus evermore shall rise to Thee Glad hymns of praise from land and -sea.
Página 231 - IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Página 17 - All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.
Página 250 - Girls and boys, come out to play, The moon doth shine as bright as day; Leave your supper, and leave your sleep, And come with your playfellows into the street. Come with a whoop, come with a call, Come with a good will or not at all.
Página 38 - And that's how the Visigoth went down, for no assignable reason, with eighty bags of mail, five hundred souls, and not a single packet insured, on just such a night as this.' ' Oh, Trinity of love and power, Our brethren shield in that dread hour, From rock and tempest, fire and foe, Protect them wheresoe'er they go. Thus evermore shall rise to Thee Glad hymns of praise by land and sea.
Página 72 - Cat did not complain much when the veterinary surgeon said that he would be no good for polo any more. When Lutyens married, his wife did not allow him to play, so he was forced to be an umpire; and his pony on these occasions was a fleabitten grey with a neat polo-tail, lame all round, but desperately quick on his feet, and, as everybody knew, Past Pluperfect Prestissimo Player of the Game.
Página 192 - In the beginning of things she had been unregenerate; had worn the heavy fluffy fringe which is the ornament of the costermonger's girl, and there is a legend in Gunnison Street that on her wedding-day she, a flare-lamp in either hand, danced dances on a discarded lover's winkle-barrow, till a policeman interfered, and then Badalia danced with the Law amid shoutings. Those were her days of fatness, and they did not last long, for her husband after two years took to himself another woman, and passed...
Página 48 - Corks, who saw that, if he were not quick, it would run beyond the boundaries. That long bouncing drive gave the Archangels time to wheel and send three men across the ground to head off Corks. Kittiwynk stayed where she was, for she knew the game. Corks was on the ball half a fraction of a second before the others came up...
Página 47 - ... riders were excellent players, but they were a team of crack players instead of a crack team ; and that made all the difference in the world. They honestly meant to play together, but it is very hard for four men, each the best of the team he is picked from, to remember that in polo no brilliancy of hitting or riding makes up for playing alone. Their captain shouted his orders to them by name, and it is a curious thing that if you call his name aloud in public after an Englishman you make him...