Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 110Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1925 - American literature |
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... walked away , even though it was three o'clock in the morning . She had been rather like a person waiting at a railroad station for the coming of a train . There is a blackboard , and a strange man comes out and writes on it , " Train ...
... walked away , even though it was three o'clock in the morning . She had been rather like a person waiting at a railroad station for the coming of a train . There is a blackboard , and a strange man comes out and writes on it , " Train ...
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... walked . Now he was getting old ; his face seemed wrinkled and faded , like a dried lemon , and his clothes had spots down the front . People , even sick people , live a long time in small Ohio towns . It is sur- prising how they hang ...
... walked . Now he was getting old ; his face seemed wrinkled and faded , like a dried lemon , and his clothes had spots down the front . People , even sick people , live a long time in small Ohio towns . It is sur- prising how they hang ...
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... walked in a newly cut hayfield . The cut hay lay all about in little cocks . John wanted to lie on one of the hay - cocks with Lillian , but did not dare suggest it . At the hotel John ate his dinner in silence . There was n't even a ...
... walked in a newly cut hayfield . The cut hay lay all about in little cocks . John wanted to lie on one of the hay - cocks with Lillian , but did not dare suggest it . At the hotel John ate his dinner in silence . There was n't even a ...
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... walked for a ways . It was a chance for a fellow to kiss his girl when the others could not see . By hurrying a little , they could later easily enough catch up with the bus . A rather heavy - faced Italian named Francisco owned Lylse's ...
... walked for a ways . It was a chance for a fellow to kiss his girl when the others could not see . By hurrying a little , they could later easily enough catch up with the bus . A rather heavy - faced Italian named Francisco owned Lylse's ...
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... walked across the dusty road and stood for a time by the river's - edge , but got back to the bench before the others had finished their dance . Maud persistently refused to dance . At ten - thirty , all of the others hav- ing got a ...
... walked across the dusty road and stood for a time by the river's - edge , but got back to the bench before the others had finished their dance . Maud persistently refused to dance . At ten - thirty , all of the others hav- ing got a ...
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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.