A Waif of the PlainsHoughton, Mifflin, 1890 - 231 sider |
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A Waif of the Plains: In the Carquinez Woods ; Snow Bound at Eagle's ; A ... Bret Harte Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1890 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
afore ain't already asked awoke bank began Benham boy's boyish breathless BRET HARTE broken frame Buckeye Mills buffalo camp fire Carden Clar Clarence felt Clarence profited Clarence's companion conscious cousin dark dead Deadman's Gulch Don Juan door dress dusty dwarf willows ence ence's eyes face fancy Father Sobriente fear flashed Flynn forward front gaze Gildersleeve girl glance half halted hand head Henry Benham horse hour hurriedly Indian Injins Jackson Brant Jim Hooker KATE GREENAWAY Kla'uns knew lariat laugh light mento mesquite middle seat ness never night NORTH LIBERTY once outriders party passengers perhaps Peyton plain road round Sacramento saddle seemed shoulder side Silsbee Silsbee's singular smile sonny stage Stockton strange struck sudden suddenly Susy Susy's suthin teamsters tell thought timidly tion turned uncon vacant card vague voice wagon youth
Populære avsnitt
Side 143 - Clarence smiled. These sporadic moments of instruction and admonition were not unusual to the good Father. He cheerfully seated himself at the Padre's table before a blank sheet of paper, with a pen in his hand. Father Sobriente paced the apartment, with his usual heavy but noiseless tread. To his surprise, the good priest, after an exhaustive pinch of snuff, blew his nose, and began, in his most lugubrious style of pulpit exhortation: — "It has been written that the sins of the father shall be...
Side 143 - ... the sins of the father shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generations.