Scribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People, Volume 110Scribner & Company, 1925 |
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... was John Holden - had grown very un- easy . After eighteen years it seemed to him he could see , lying before him , one of the letters written eighteen 3 years before when he had first come into the strange The CENTURY MAGAZINE.
... was John Holden - had grown very un- easy . After eighteen years it seemed to him he could see , lying before him , one of the letters written eighteen 3 years before when he had first come into the strange The CENTURY MAGAZINE.
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... seemed rather stunned when he walked away , even though it was three o'clock in the morning . She had been rather ... seemed very well , but suddenly she was attacked by a baffling kind of slow fever that lasted nearly a year . Sometimes ...
... seemed rather stunned when he walked away , even though it was three o'clock in the morning . She had been rather ... seemed very well , but suddenly she was attacked by a baffling kind of slow fever that lasted nearly a year . Sometimes ...
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... seemed reluctant about going away . After they got out of the car at Lylse's , he felt uncomfortably old and queer . " What am I doing here with these people ? " he kept asking himself . When they had got into the light , he stole a ...
... seemed reluctant about going away . After they got out of the car at Lylse's , he felt uncomfortably old and queer . " What am I doing here with these people ? " he kept asking himself . When they had got into the light , he stole a ...
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... seemed very alive and alert . " I saw you out to Lylse's , " he said , and , without being asked , went to look at the tank . " You ' re all right ; you got ' most eight gallons , " he as- sured John as he climbed into the driver's seat ...
... seemed very alive and alert . " I saw you out to Lylse's , " he said , and , without being asked , went to look at the tank . " You ' re all right ; you got ' most eight gallons , " he as- sured John as he climbed into the driver's seat ...
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... on nothin ' ' Way up in the sky . seemed to kind o ' take pride in their ridin ' - so the ol ' man took ' em on ; said he ' d give ' em a try - out , anyhow . Bonnet Sonnet BY JACQUELINE Embry What lady knows a hat 24 THE CENTURY MAGAZINE.
... on nothin ' ' Way up in the sky . seemed to kind o ' take pride in their ridin ' - so the ol ' man took ' em on ; said he ' d give ' em a try - out , anyhow . Bonnet Sonnet BY JACQUELINE Embry What lady knows a hat 24 THE CENTURY MAGAZINE.
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Page 338 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Page 437 - Hurrah ! hurrah for Sheridan ! Hurrah! hurrah for horse and man ! And when their statues are placed on high, Under the dome of the Union sky, The American soldier's Temple of Fame, — There with the glorious General's name, Be it said, in letters both bold and bright, " Here is the steed that saved the day By carrying Sheridan into the fight, From Winchester, twenty miles away!
Page 475 - Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
Page 472 - tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.
Page 471 - But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps, at mid-day, in the fairest weather, with one half-throttled shriek you drop through that transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise for ever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists!
Page 625 - We were very tired, we were very merry — We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
Page 471 - There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God. But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror.
Page 620 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 696 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 473 - Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself.