Blackwood's Magazine, Volum 219W. Blackwood, 1926 |
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Side 28
... months peace reigned among the hills . something had roused him . The night was very dark , and quiet save for the occasional grumble of thunder in the south . He thought he heard a faint sound from the edge of the verandah near his bed ...
... months peace reigned among the hills . something had roused him . The night was very dark , and quiet save for the occasional grumble of thunder in the south . He thought he heard a faint sound from the edge of the verandah near his bed ...
Side 37
... months in the making , and meanwhile Davidson had to find the exact situation of the wreck , and the many scattered pockets in which the restless sea had secreted the wandering treasure . The ponderous derrick , with its net- work of ...
... months in the making , and meanwhile Davidson had to find the exact situation of the wreck , and the many scattered pockets in which the restless sea had secreted the wandering treasure . The ponderous derrick , with its net- work of ...
Side 40
... months . A mile and a half of roads and paths were cut in the cliffs between the camp and the working platforms . It had been origin- ally intended to make the derrick 120 feet long , and to step the heel of it on a platform at some ...
... months . A mile and a half of roads and paths were cut in the cliffs between the camp and the working platforms . It had been origin- ally intended to make the derrick 120 feet long , and to step the heel of it on a platform at some ...
Side 42
... months going to wreck before his eyes . At ten o'clock " a stupendous roller rushed in , struck the derrick on its side , and broke it off at about twenty feet from the heel . Thus in one crash was destroyed this child of my hopes just ...
... months going to wreck before his eyes . At ten o'clock " a stupendous roller rushed in , struck the derrick on its side , and broke it off at about twenty feet from the heel . Thus in one crash was destroyed this child of my hopes just ...
Side 45
... months it would probably have achieved all that Davidson wrung from the sea by launch and cable in ten months , but he " got there all the same . " Stripped of his great machine , he forced time and the labour of men's hands to serve ...
... months it would probably have achieved all that Davidson wrung from the sea by launch and cable in ten months , but he " got there all the same . " Stripped of his great machine , he forced time and the labour of men's hands to serve ...
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Side 728 - I hail this interchange of sentiment, therefore, as an augury that whatever else may happen, whatever misfortune may befall your country or my own, the peace and friendship which now exist between the two nations will be, as it shall be my desire to make them, perpetual.
Side 435 - poets in especial, prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy— an ecstatic intuition; and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes at the elaborate and vacillating crudities of thought
Side 387 - Then the boys who are bending and watching on the outside, mark them: they are most useful players, the dodgers, who seize on the ball the moment it rolls out from amongst the chargers, and away with it across to the opposite goal. They seldom go into the scrummage, but must have more coolness than the chargers.
Side 435 - in a word, at the wheels and pinions, the tackle for scene-shifting, the step-ladders and demon-traps, the cock's feathers, the red paint and black patches, which in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred constitute the properties of the literary histrio.
Side 133 - has not yet quite found his groove and settled down to his work, and so he is just asserting his personal liberty a little, going where he likes, assembling where he likes, bawling as he likes, hustling as he likes. Just as the rest of us,
Side 270 - many other folks who learn to undervalue the means by which they have risen, has behaved, or rather suffered his partner to behave, very uncivilly towards me. But they may both live to know that they should not have kicked down the ladder till they were sure of their footing/
Side 270 - Constable, or rather that Bear his partner, has behaved to me of late not very civilly, and I owe Jeffrey a flap with a foxtail on account of his review of ' Marmion,' and thus doth the whirligig of time bring about my revenges.