Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 92Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1916 - American literature |
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Page 4
... took it up and asked what it was about , I would say : " Oh , it ' s rather a remarkable book . It ' s by a man whom I know . " Just " what it was about " I never was able to say . Head or tail was just what I had n't made of that slim ...
... took it up and asked what it was about , I would say : " Oh , it ' s rather a remarkable book . It ' s by a man whom I know . " Just " what it was about " I never was able to say . Head or tail was just what I had n't made of that slim ...
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... took the chair oppo- site to his . He was smoking a cigarette , with an untasted salmi of something on his plate and a half - empty bottle of Sau- terne before him , and he was quite silent . I said that the preparations for the Jubilee ...
... took the chair oppo- site to his . He was smoking a cigarette , with an untasted salmi of something on his plate and a half - empty bottle of Sau- terne before him , and he was quite silent . I said that the preparations for the Jubilee ...
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... took the trouble to copy out the passage . Read it . " I snatched the paper . Soames's hand- writing was characteristically dim . It and the noisome spelling and my excitement made me all the slower to grasp what T. K. Nupton was ...
... took the trouble to copy out the passage . Read it . " I snatched the paper . Soames's hand- writing was characteristically dim . It and the noisome spelling and my excitement made me all the slower to grasp what T. K. Nupton was ...
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... took part ; only 1400 enlisted men took advantage of camps of instruction ; and in 1915 only one State , Washington , was equipped as prescribed by the war depart ment . Target practice was satisfactory in eight States only , and ...
... took part ; only 1400 enlisted men took advantage of camps of instruction ; and in 1915 only one State , Washington , was equipped as prescribed by the war depart ment . Target practice was satisfactory in eight States only , and ...
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... took the girls out in a bunch to dances and movies seemed to realize this . They merely wanted a whirl with Stella before they settled down to one of her sisters . It was tacitly understood that she came too high for them . Percy had ...
... took the girls out in a bunch to dances and movies seemed to realize this . They merely wanted a whirl with Stella before they settled down to one of her sisters . It was tacitly understood that she came too high for them . Percy had ...
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