God's PuppetsMacmillan, 1916 - 309 sider |
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Side 31
... heard . Whatever Lalla Rookh's theory of the situation was , it was certain that the Doctor was taking it with dreadful seriousness . And his seriousness affected him with a kind of an obsession of gentle- ness and consideration for ...
... heard . Whatever Lalla Rookh's theory of the situation was , it was certain that the Doctor was taking it with dreadful seriousness . And his seriousness affected him with a kind of an obsession of gentle- ness and consideration for ...
Side 37
... heard the sobs struggling to rise , and in another instant Lalla Rookh was convulsed in weeping . Her whole frame shook and she moaned . 66 What have I done ! What have I done ! Be- fore God , I've done no evil - no evil no evil ! Oh ...
... heard the sobs struggling to rise , and in another instant Lalla Rookh was convulsed in weeping . Her whole frame shook and she moaned . 66 What have I done ! What have I done ! Be- fore God , I've done no evil - no evil no evil ! Oh ...
Side 46
... face , gray and worn and haggard . " Come here and work work ! " she cried as she heard wheels scraping the gravel of the driveway and knew another doctor had arrived . It was ten o'clock . Mrs. Nixon was talking to 46 GOD'S PUPPETS.
... face , gray and worn and haggard . " Come here and work work ! " she cried as she heard wheels scraping the gravel of the driveway and knew another doctor had arrived . It was ten o'clock . Mrs. Nixon was talking to 46 GOD'S PUPPETS.
Side 47
... heard her say : " Now , Elsie , call me up any time to - night if anything goes wrong . " The old man was wet - eyed and broken , not the strong old man he had been when he came laugh- ing out of the laboratory less than two hours be ...
... heard her say : " Now , Elsie , call me up any time to - night if anything goes wrong . " The old man was wet - eyed and broken , not the strong old man he had been when he came laugh- ing out of the laboratory less than two hours be ...
Side 48
... heard the front door open and close and felt the night wind blowing through the house . PART III When the Nixons came home from Europe - from their two years ' sojourn in Europe the Professor brought back sundry medals , degrees and ...
... heard the front door open and close and felt the night wind blowing through the house . PART III When the Nixons came home from Europe - from their two years ' sojourn in Europe the Professor brought back sundry medals , degrees and ...
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ain't answered Archimedes asked Astor House bank banker beautiful began Boyce Kilworth Boyceville Cale Caleb Hale called Charley Herrington Club Colonel Longford congressman Constitution Street cried Cripple Creek crowd damn Debbie Deborah desk Dick Hale Doctor dollars door dream editor Elias Elsie eyes face father flowers garden girl Globe office gone Hale's half hand Hayden head heard heart Hiram Larson Jack Beasley Jimmy Joel Ladgett Judge Judge's kind knew Kurtlin Lalla Rookh Lally larkspurs laughed little Dick live Longheath looked man's never night Nixon nodded old party paper paused Pelléas and Mélisande poor Prince Charmin Raynham replied rington rose round shook silence smiled soul spoke stood story strange boy talk tell things Toney Delaney took town turned Ty Cobb Vashti voice walked window woman women words young youth
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Side 151 - ... line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little.
Side 23 - Now is the time for all good men and true to come to the aid of the party.
Side 183 - ... for a day or a week or a month or a year; but from antiquity to posterity fcr many ages." the slaughter, "there were more young men in the country.
Side 246 - The congressman was a pudgy, soft-handed, short-legged, thin-haired, pink-browed, clabberjowled congressman, all swathed about as to his pod-like torso in a white vest, draped in a black frock coat. His name was Joel Ladgett. Joel Ladgett was the famous author of the Ladgett Bill. He sat rolling a dead cigar from one side of his loose, coarse mouth to the other, displaying a set of big, uneven teeth, badly battered by time. His jaw was coming unscrewed and was wabbling — almost visibly.
Side 293 - ... boys. There was talk of a day's walk in the country; of a raft to be made at the river under the scoutmaster's direction; of fishing tackle to be had at the town's stores; where the best rods might be bought; what minnows were worth. Some consideration was given to the various grades of khaki 292 for scouting suits.
Side 293 - ... he had dammed, let the hand with the book drop to his knee as the talk woke in his heart a faint pulse from some underconsciousness that had not been stirred for years. The boys were lying on a lawn beneath the stone veranda railing whereon his old feet rested. From time to time the youngsters...
Side 209 - ... sordid choice in life's great decision between the ways of life was due to the age and its environing shams — for it was a material age and in it youth had few visions.
Side 229 - It is hard to say whether or not this madness is more grotesque than the puppy love of early youth. Perhaps because age is supposed to be more circumspect than youth the capers of the old man and the young woman — for always he is enamoured of youth — are more fantastic than those of the young.
Side 209 - The age had planted its shams; its false valuations; its meaningless architecture, its fortunes founded on fraud; its lies and cheats in religion, and its mawkish sentiment in art. The...