Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 92Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1916 - American literature |
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... hair . He had a thin , vague beard , or , rather , he had a chin on which a large number of hairs weakly curled and clustered to cover its retreat . He was an odd - looking person ; but in the nineties odd apparitions were more frequent ...
... hair . He had a thin , vague beard , or , rather , he had a chin on which a large number of hairs weakly curled and clustered to cover its retreat . He was an odd - looking person ; but in the nineties odd apparitions were more frequent ...
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... hair was en brosse , I did not think he was French . To Berthe , who waited on him , he spoke French fluently , but with a hardly native idiom and accent . I gathered that this was his first visit to the Vingtième ; but Berthe was ...
... hair was en brosse , I did not think he was French . To Berthe , who waited on him , he spoke French fluently , but with a hardly native idiom and accent . I gathered that this was his first visit to the Vingtième ; but Berthe was ...
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... hair , Thrusting whole sheaves of icicles under your shuddering skin . " Yow ! " you leap . " Yow ! You ! " and yank at the handle . SWISH ! The confronting bay is all cold - blue glitter , But these fields and undulant hills and rich ...
... hair , Thrusting whole sheaves of icicles under your shuddering skin . " Yow ! " you leap . " Yow ! You ! " and yank at the handle . SWISH ! The confronting bay is all cold - blue glitter , But these fields and undulant hills and rich ...
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... hair and complexion like Stella's could scarcely be expected to do poorly . Most of the boys who went to the house and took the girls out in a bunch to dances and movies seemed to realize this . They merely wanted a whirl with Stella ...
... hair and complexion like Stella's could scarcely be expected to do poorly . Most of the boys who went to the house and took the girls out in a bunch to dances and movies seemed to realize this . They merely wanted a whirl with Stella ...
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... hair , with bluish tones in it , very soft and fine , so that it lay smooth however she dressed it , and pale - blue eyes , with blond eyebrows and long , dark lashes . She would have been a little too remote and languid even for the ...
... hair , with bluish tones in it , very soft and fine , so that it lay smooth however she dressed it , and pale - blue eyes , with blond eyebrows and long , dark lashes . She would have been a little too remote and languid even for the ...
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