God's PuppetsMacmillan, 1916 - 309 sider |
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Side 3
... the heart of a Yankee girl near Boston , had eloped with her to Arizona after the Fenian raid , and the rest we knew . He had no particular business or ― calling , and was just coloneling round in a A SOCIAL RECTANGLE 3.
... the heart of a Yankee girl near Boston , had eloped with her to Arizona after the Fenian raid , and the rest we knew . He had no particular business or ― calling , and was just coloneling round in a A SOCIAL RECTANGLE 3.
Side 4
William Allen White. ― calling , and was just coloneling round in a grand way in politics and in real estate and in contracts to supply stone or meat or hay or railroad rights- of - way , wherever he could find employment for his talents ...
William Allen White. ― calling , and was just coloneling round in a grand way in politics and in real estate and in contracts to supply stone or meat or hay or railroad rights- of - way , wherever he could find employment for his talents ...
Side 15
... round to read the despatch , and there it was , in plain typewritten characters the story of Lalla Rookh and the Professor , and the Colonel chasing them furiously to the station in a cab and then throwing kisses after them as they ...
... round to read the despatch , and there it was , in plain typewritten characters the story of Lalla Rookh and the Professor , and the Colonel chasing them furiously to the station in a cab and then throwing kisses after them as they ...
Side 17
... of herself as she appeared in public with her children , rather over - dressed and bedizened , grouped beautifully round her . Then she opened another door as impetuously as she had shut the last A SOCIAL RECTANGLE 17 PART II ...
... of herself as she appeared in public with her children , rather over - dressed and bedizened , grouped beautifully round her . Then she opened another door as impetuously as she had shut the last A SOCIAL RECTANGLE 17 PART II ...
Side 19
... round selling ' em - literally choking baskets down people's throats . That's the third little ash - cat she's picked up this year . " Elsie rattled away as she corrected the copy , and when the printer girl had gone she called ...
... round selling ' em - literally choking baskets down people's throats . That's the third little ash - cat she's picked up this year . " Elsie rattled away as she corrected the copy , and when the printer girl had gone she called ...
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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
Populære avsnitt
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...