Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 102Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1921 - American literature |
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... seemed ninety . He was enormous . He must have been hard to care for . His shoulders , in the mended linen nightgown thrust up above the patch- work comforter , were bulky ; his neck was thick ; his head a shiny dome- an Olympian ...
... seemed ninety . He was enormous . He must have been hard to care for . His shoulders , in the mended linen nightgown thrust up above the patch- work comforter , were bulky ; his neck was thick ; his head a shiny dome- an Olympian ...
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... seemed put out . " The joke is that three weeks later he approached the good matron with a petition to be permitted to do what he had scorned . She rightly , he records without comment , " showed me the door . " No , he was not virtuous ...
... seemed put out . " The joke is that three weeks later he approached the good matron with a petition to be permitted to do what he had scorned . She rightly , he records without comment , " showed me the door . " No , he was not virtuous ...
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... seemed beggary . I had expected to have to conceal hatred , but instead I was embarrassed . Yet by the gods it was I , the shabby scholar , who had created Jason , and this silken , sulky dilettante who with- out reason had stabbed him ...
... seemed beggary . I had expected to have to conceal hatred , but instead I was embarrassed . Yet by the gods it was I , the shabby scholar , who had created Jason , and this silken , sulky dilettante who with- out reason had stabbed him ...
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... seemed to me , however , that no good purpose would be served by enlightening the poacher on the subject of these prejudices . Rather would I seize upon the oppor- tunity for such a display of magna- nimity as would exalt the fame of ...
... seemed to me , however , that no good purpose would be served by enlightening the poacher on the subject of these prejudices . Rather would I seize upon the oppor- tunity for such a display of magna- nimity as would exalt the fame of ...
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... seemed to me to connote some indescribable wickedness . Then some one told me that it was a swelling of the lacrymal gland produced by ex- posure to a tropical sun , and I loathed him no more . It is generally some superficial and ...
... seemed to me to connote some indescribable wickedness . Then some one told me that it was a swelling of the lacrymal gland produced by ex- posure to a tropical sun , and I loathed him no more . It is generally some superficial and ...
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