All the Year RoundChapman and Hall, 1891 |
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Página 119
... James Brown . Mr. Dawe is my uncle . " Miss Smith felt incredulous . The Dawes had particularly impressed on her ... James Brown's had not been among them . There was nothing aristocratic in this young man's rough , badly - made ...
... James Brown . Mr. Dawe is my uncle . " Miss Smith felt incredulous . The Dawes had particularly impressed on her ... James Brown's had not been among them . There was nothing aristocratic in this young man's rough , badly - made ...
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... James Brown ! " The features were Selma's - Selma's with the beauty of 120 [ August 1 , 1891. ] ALL THE YEAR ROUND .
... James Brown ! " The features were Selma's - Selma's with the beauty of 120 [ August 1 , 1891. ] ALL THE YEAR ROUND .
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... James Brown . " But I suppose everybody has some . " He stood there , absorbed apparently in the summer - garden scene before him , giving no sign of having spoken . Mrs. Dawe's face speech . Mrs. Dawe's face flushed scarlet and then ...
... James Brown . " But I suppose everybody has some . " He stood there , absorbed apparently in the summer - garden scene before him , giving no sign of having spoken . Mrs. Dawe's face speech . Mrs. Dawe's face flushed scarlet and then ...
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... James Brown not being looked upon as a visitor , the usual order of things continued , and she sat down at table with them . As Martha was utterly incompetent as a cook , and as Mr. Dawe's temperit was called digestion was " And then ...
... James Brown not being looked upon as a visitor , the usual order of things continued , and she sat down at table with them . As Martha was utterly incompetent as a cook , and as Mr. Dawe's temperit was called digestion was " And then ...
Página 144
... James Brown leant back in his chair contemplating the amazement he had created . " Oh - we- " " stammered Minnie . " Well- " " " We never thought you would care to dine with us , " said her mother , coming to her rescue . " You always ...
... James Brown leant back in his chair contemplating the amazement he had created . " Oh - we- " " stammered Minnie . " Well- " " " We never thought you would care to dine with us , " said her mother , coming to her rescue . " You always ...
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afternoon Andorra answered asked asteroids beautiful Brown Bryher called Carbonel Carnforth Catherine Charity Organisation Society CHARLES DICKENS colour Cornish course cried Crystal Palace Dawe dear dine dinner door dress eyes face feel friends garden girl give Gordon Grace Arbuthnot hand head heard heart Helen hour Humphrey Jacques Lambert James Brown John Tyrrell Jones knew lady laugh LEA & PERRINS Léonie London Longham looked Lord Mabel Maidment Mervyn mind Minnie Miss Malet Miss Smith Miss Tyrrell morning mother never night once passed pause perhaps pleasant pretty Rênée Roger round seemed Selma Sibyl side sister smile smoke speak spoke Stewart-Carr stood suddenly talk tell thing thought tion tobacco told took Tresco turned Tyrrell's Vauxhall voice walk Wellington Street wife woman wonder words young
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Página 277 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Página 399 - ... in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense...
Página 129 - ... and he was to have a share of the profits for procuring customers amongst his numerous acquaintance. Fitzherbert was one who took his small-beer ; but it was so bad that the servants resolved not to drink it. They were at some loss how to notify their resolution, being afraid of offending their master, who they knew liked Foote much as a companion. At last they fixed upon a little black boy, who was rather a favourite, to be their deputy and deliver their remonstrance ; and having invested him...
Página 399 - Tis that which we all see and know." Any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air.
Página 300 - Framed again no second smell. Roses, violets, but toys For the smaller sort of boys, Or for greener damsels meant; Thou art the only manly scent. Stinking'st of the stinking kind, Filth of the mouth and fog of the mind...
Página 206 - While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd: With jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon; Manna and dates, in argosy transferr'd From Fez ; and spiced dainties, every one, From silken Samarcand to cedar'd Lebanon.
Página 129 - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenlyj affecting not to mind him.
Página 85 - Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.
Página 274 - ON the Mountains of the Prairie, On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry, Gitche Manito, the mighty, He the Master of Life, descending, On the red crags of the quarry Stood erect, and called the nations, Called the tribes of men together.