The EarthquakeCharles Scribner's Sons, 1918 - 307 páginas The awakening of the United States to it's involvement in World War I. |
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... Light and Heat , and so on . It made me almost sick to look at the thing . It was preposterous ! " 1916 - Mr . Stanton- $ 3,714.27 , " for instance ! How on earth could I have spent any such sum on myself ? Mentally I reviewed my ...
... Light and Heat , and so on . It made me almost sick to look at the thing . It was preposterous ! " 1916 - Mr . Stanton- $ 3,714.27 , " for instance ! How on earth could I have spent any such sum on myself ? Mentally I reviewed my ...
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... light , heat , repairs , various maintenance charges , and servants ' wages . We should also not have to run our kitchen . We had previously kept ten servants . It would be much cheaper for the three of us and our maid to board at a ...
... light , heat , repairs , various maintenance charges , and servants ' wages . We should also not have to run our kitchen . We had previously kept ten servants . It would be much cheaper for the three of us and our maid to board at a ...
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... Light that fire or be forever disgraced in your own eyes and those of Mrs. Gavin . " Meantime that furnace was sitting there with its mouth wide open and its tongue in its cheek . I glared back at it resentfully . The indicator was ...
... Light that fire or be forever disgraced in your own eyes and those of Mrs. Gavin . " Meantime that furnace was sitting there with its mouth wide open and its tongue in its cheek . I glared back at it resentfully . The indicator was ...
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... lights of our recent do- mestic revolution . He listened with only polite in- terest , intimating that I was way behind the times . It appeared that most people of our means had also awakened to the absurdity or at least the high cost ...
... lights of our recent do- mestic revolution . He listened with only polite in- terest , intimating that I was way behind the times . It appeared that most people of our means had also awakened to the absurdity or at least the high cost ...
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... light dish of that sort , and although we had lingered as long as we wished , we were through in half the usual time . Down in the hall I picked up Thomas again and invited him to smoke another cigarette before going away . " You can't ...
... light dish of that sort , and although we had lingered as long as we wished , we were through in half the usual time . Down in the hall I picked up Thomas again and invited him to smoke another cigarette before going away . " You can't ...
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Allies American answered army asked Belgium boches boys butler cent chauffeur coffee course crowd daughter exclaimed eyes face feel fellows five France friends front furnace German German General Staff girls give going gone good-by half hand Helen Highbilt hundred Jack John John Stanton labor lady laughed less Liberty Bonds Liberty Loan live Long Island look Lord Margery million Miss Pritchett months moral morning Morris mother motor nation never Pennsylvania Station Plattsburg pretty realize Red Cross René replied retorted seemed servants side slackers social soldiers sort Stanton Stock Broker suppose talk tell there's thing thought thousand dollars to-day train trenches turned twenty Uncle Sam uniform Vanderlip week What's wife woman women Yaphank York York City young
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Página 79 - Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far above rubies. ' The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. ' She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
Página 306 - And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks, before the LORD ; but the LORD was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake ; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: and after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.
Página 79 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
Página 214 - For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Página 2 - Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
Página 2 - And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay ; and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.
Página 79 - She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy. She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Página 2 - And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord ; but the Lord was not in the wind : and after the wind an earthquake ; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire ; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
Página 225 - Remember that you are the chosen people ! The spirit of the Lord has descended upon me because I am the Emperor of the Germans ! " 'I am the instrument of the Almighty. I am his sword, his agent. Woe and death to all those who shall oppose my will! Woe and death to those who do not believe in my mission ! Woe and death to the cowards ! "'Let them perish, all the enemies of the German people!
Página 79 - She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Earthquake American Fiction, 1774-1920 |
| Autor | Arthur Train |
| Editor | Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 6 Jun. 2007 |
| Largo | 307 páginas |
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