Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 92Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1916 - American literature |
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... head of the man -moist flies that felt damp on the skin . They were slow and languid flies , which wanted to settle and stay . It was his breathing that made them restless , but not enough to clear them away ; only enough to make a low ...
... head of the man -moist flies that felt damp on the skin . They were slow and languid flies , which wanted to settle and stay . It was his breathing that made them restless , but not enough to clear them away ; only enough to make a low ...
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... head , a tall figure of a man , but bent at the shoul- ders , as if all the dreariness of his sur- roundings had settled there . He had the stoop of an old man , and the walk . He stepped out of his room into the street , and stood ...
... head , a tall figure of a man , but bent at the shoul- ders , as if all the dreariness of his sur- roundings had settled there . He had the stoop of an old man , and the walk . He stepped out of his room into the street , and stood ...
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... head , and made for the spot on the spread . It nosed its way in , crawled heavily a few inches up the coverlet , and turned its legs up . Two more came , sniffed , and died . " You see , " he said . NEXT day the head of the Coxyde ...
... head , and made for the spot on the spread . It nosed its way in , crawled heavily a few inches up the coverlet , and turned its legs up . Two more came , sniffed , and died . " You see , " he said . NEXT day the head of the Coxyde ...
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... head . " I held it out of the Western remit- tances , Mr. Remsen . They were coming in heavy just then . I was up against it . I had n't saved anything to marry on , and my wife thought I was getting more money than I was . Since we ...
... head . " I held it out of the Western remit- tances , Mr. Remsen . They were coming in heavy just then . I was up against it . I had n't saved anything to marry on , and my wife thought I was getting more money than I was . Since we ...
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... head , and whenever Dylks got down to pray , the ring just stayed in the air over the saddle tell he got back , and then it dropped round his head ag'in . " Reverdy stopped for the effect , but Braile only said : " Go on ! Go on ...
... head , and whenever Dylks got down to pray , the ring just stayed in the air over the saddle tell he got back , and then it dropped round his head ag'in . " Reverdy stopped for the effect , but Braile only said : " Go on ! Go on ...
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