Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 92Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1916 - American literature |
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Page 6
... once . I'm afraid I found it rather a depressing place . It it seemed to sap one's vitality . " " It does . That ' s why I go there . The lower one's vitality , the more sensitive one is to great art . I live near the museum . I have ...
... once . I'm afraid I found it rather a depressing place . It it seemed to sap one's vitality . " " It does . That ' s why I go there . The lower one's vitality , the more sensitive one is to great art . I live near the museum . I have ...
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... Once a week , for a treat , you cut a steak off the flank of a dead horse . That tastes better , because it ' s fresh meat . When you ' re sent back a few miles en piquet , you sleep in a village that looks like Sodom after the sulphur ...
... Once a week , for a treat , you cut a steak off the flank of a dead horse . That tastes better , because it ' s fresh meat . When you ' re sent back a few miles en piquet , you sleep in a village that looks like Sodom after the sulphur ...
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... once was familiar only to observers of the sober practical and frugal life of provincial France ; namely , that the Gallic tempera- ment is essentially patient , thrifty , and equable . France in her life to - day illus- trates at its ...
... once was familiar only to observers of the sober practical and frugal life of provincial France ; namely , that the Gallic tempera- ment is essentially patient , thrifty , and equable . France in her life to - day illus- trates at its ...
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... once ap- pears . The pocked and scarred fields were required at once for the crops of the en- suing season . With a cool sense of France's need to be fed and sustained , the peasants , many of whose houses had been battered to pieces ...
... once ap- pears . The pocked and scarred fields were required at once for the crops of the en- suing season . With a cool sense of France's need to be fed and sustained , the peasants , many of whose houses had been battered to pieces ...
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... Once they were outside , Percy turned into a shadowy side street that was only partly built up , a dreary waste of der- ricks and foundation holes , but compara- tively solitary . Stella liked Percy's steady , sympathetic silences ; she ...
... Once they were outside , Percy turned into a shadowy side street that was only partly built up , a dreary waste of der- ricks and foundation holes , but compara- tively solitary . Stella liked Percy's steady , sympathetic silences ; she ...
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