Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 91Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1916 - American literature |
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Page 31
... never - failing pana- cea . When driven from that untenable ground , they retreat , crying that our " mighty " navy could easily prevent any hostile army from landing on our shores . When a score of facts are pointed out to them , such ...
... never - failing pana- cea . When driven from that untenable ground , they retreat , crying that our " mighty " navy could easily prevent any hostile army from landing on our shores . When a score of facts are pointed out to them , such ...
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... never so strong mor- ally and politically , and their armies are never so effective , as immediately follow- ing a long conflict . " Practice makes per- fect . " Greece was never stronger than after Platæa and Salamis , nor Rome than ...
... never so strong mor- ally and politically , and their armies are never so effective , as immediately follow- ing a long conflict . " Practice makes per- fect . " Greece was never stronger than after Platæa and Salamis , nor Rome than ...
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... never was much of a cook myself , as my poor dead husband has remarked on more than one occasion , and I don't pretend to be . Mr. Parable added , apologetic like , that he had been suffering lately from indigestion . " I am only too ...
... never was much of a cook myself , as my poor dead husband has remarked on more than one occasion , and I don't pretend to be . Mr. Parable added , apologetic like , that he had been suffering lately from indigestion . " I am only too ...
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... Never saw a happier marriage . " It struck me that Helen looked a trifle bleak , and I suddenly remembered all that gossip that Marty Keene told us last summer ; so I hastily changed the conver- sation to a perfectly safe subject like ...
... Never saw a happier marriage . " It struck me that Helen looked a trifle bleak , and I suddenly remembered all that gossip that Marty Keene told us last summer ; so I hastily changed the conver- sation to a perfectly safe subject like ...
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... never able to dismiss a crisis in order to discuss the weather . This is apropos of a call I received to- day . A woman had come to deliver her sister's child - sister in a sanatorium for tuberculosis ; we to keep the child until the ...
... never able to dismiss a crisis in order to discuss the weather . This is apropos of a call I received to- day . A woman had come to deliver her sister's child - sister in a sanatorium for tuberculosis ; we to keep the child until the ...
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