Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 92Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1916 - American literature |
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... ment in darkness and hunger among dust and rats and old legal parchments . The Vingtième was but a small whitewashed room , leading out into the street at one end and into a kitchen at the other . The proprietor and cook was a Frenchman ...
... ment in darkness and hunger among dust and rats and old legal parchments . The Vingtième was but a small whitewashed room , leading out into the street at one end and into a kitchen at the other . The proprietor and cook was a Frenchman ...
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... ment . Time - an illusion . Past and fu- ture - they are as ever present as the pres- ent , or at any rate only what you call ' just round the corner . ' I switch you on to any date . I project you - pouf ! You wish to be in the reading ...
... ment . Time - an illusion . Past and fu- ture - they are as ever present as the pres- ent , or at any rate only what you call ' just round the corner . ' I switch you on to any date . I project you - pouf ! You wish to be in the reading ...
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... ment . Target practice was satisfactory in eight States only , and General Mills , head of the division of militia affairs , reports that six months of active preparation would be required to put the slipshod body in shape for real ...
... ment . Target practice was satisfactory in eight States only , and General Mills , head of the division of militia affairs , reports that six months of active preparation would be required to put the slipshod body in shape for real ...
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... ment of males in these colleges , at the last report , was 81,097 , and of this number a bare twenty - three per cent . made any pre- tense of drill . As General Wood has pointed out , the question of instructors is not such a bogy as ...
... ment of males in these colleges , at the last report , was 81,097 , and of this number a bare twenty - three per cent . made any pre- tense of drill . As General Wood has pointed out , the question of instructors is not such a bogy as ...
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... ment , smelling and staring . A cart bumped over the cobbles . Inside the window , a square room with a litter of sixpenny novels in a corner , fifty or sixty books flung down haphazard , some of them open , with the leaves crushed back ...
... ment , smelling and staring . A cart bumped over the cobbles . Inside the window , a square room with a litter of sixpenny novels in a corner , fifty or sixty books flung down haphazard , some of them open , with the leaves crushed back ...
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