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... stand and let us wait . Cooks do not wait . Why should they , if they can make us hire a waitress to do it ? And , oh , Josey , " her voice broke- " I am so tired . " Again he comforted her , and , from the depths of a philosophic ...
... stand and let us wait . Cooks do not wait . Why should they , if they can make us hire a waitress to do it ? And , oh , Josey , " her voice broke- " I am so tired . " Again he comforted her , and , from the depths of a philosophic ...
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... stand the bills , I suppose , but are n't we parting with our liberty , too ? She rules us with a rod of iron . She makes us do everything she thinks best . Is it worth it ? " His wife hesitated , began to speak , then stopped . A great ...
... stand the bills , I suppose , but are n't we parting with our liberty , too ? She rules us with a rod of iron . She makes us do everything she thinks best . Is it worth it ? " His wife hesitated , began to speak , then stopped . A great ...
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... stand- ing ajar , will often show a family wash in progress over a sodden floor , a meal in preparation , or a baby ... stands before one openly , yet enveloped in impenetrable mys- tery . In my dream world of the East , min- gled with ...
... stand- ing ajar , will often show a family wash in progress over a sodden floor , a meal in preparation , or a baby ... stands before one openly , yet enveloped in impenetrable mys- tery . In my dream world of the East , min- gled with ...
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... stand- still . There is enough of such experiences to make one call China " the land of broken promise . " Some of the trouble is due to bad judgment , but too often the management has been pulled out of plumb by the itch for ...
... stand- still . There is enough of such experiences to make one call China " the land of broken promise . " Some of the trouble is due to bad judgment , but too often the management has been pulled out of plumb by the itch for ...
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... stand so near me . " " Get enough for two , " was his parting remark ; " Taulbee ' s commencing to scratch , too . " " Yes , get enough for a dozen , " was her sad reflection , only too promptly verified , for within a few days her ...
... stand so near me . " " Get enough for two , " was his parting remark ; " Taulbee ' s commencing to scratch , too . " " Yes , get enough for a dozen , " was her sad reflection , only too promptly verified , for within a few days her ...
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Page 512 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 147 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 746 - If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Page 516 - I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. Put out the light, and then put out the light.
Page 42 - I smile, And cry, Content, to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
Page 433 - There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them.
Page 132 - battlements that on their restless fronts bore stars " — might have been copied from my architectural dreams, for it often occurred. We hear it reported of Dryden, and of Fuseli in modern times, that they thought proper to eat raw meat for the sake of obtaining splendid dreams: how much better, for such a purpose, to have eaten opium, which yet I do not remember that any poet is recorded to have done, except the dramatist Shadwell...
Page 307 - mid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him from his father's eyes!
Page 512 - It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause.
Page 454 - They declared against superstition on the one hand, and enthusiasm on the other. They loved the constitution of the Church, and the Liturgy, and could well live under them: But they did not think it unlawful to live under another form. They wished that things might have been carried with more moderation. And they continued to keep a good correspondence with those who had differed from them in opinion, and allowed a great freedom both in philosophy and in divinity: From whence they were called men...