The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 128Atlantic Monthly Company, 1921 - American essays |
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We rose and passed into another of the three tiny rooms that the villa contained . It was a sort of office , with paper , ink , pens , and a typewriter on the table . ' What name do you want to have ? ' asked the cadaverous man .
We rose and passed into another of the three tiny rooms that the villa contained . It was a sort of office , with paper , ink , pens , and a typewriter on the table . ' What name do you want to have ? ' asked the cadaverous man .
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I asked . after much reflection , La Farge asked whether there might not still be room for something simple in art , Adams shook his head . As he saw the world , it was no longer simple and could not express itself simply .
I asked . after much reflection , La Farge asked whether there might not still be room for something simple in art , Adams shook his head . As he saw the world , it was no longer simple and could not express itself simply .
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No father , asked for bread , would give a stone ; but when asked for truth and beauty and reality , how few of us have the courage to give a son what Jesus had , or Lincoln had , or the two years before the mast that young Richard ...
No father , asked for bread , would give a stone ; but when asked for truth and beauty and reality , how few of us have the courage to give a son what Jesus had , or Lincoln had , or the two years before the mast that young Richard ...
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I asked . She raised her hands to her face , shivered cruelly , and replied that she just hated such horrid words - she just hated to think of that battlefield all strewn with ghastly tattered corpses ! And what shall be said of another ...
I asked . She raised her hands to her face , shivered cruelly , and replied that she just hated such horrid words - she just hated to think of that battlefield all strewn with ghastly tattered corpses ! And what shall be said of another ...
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I asked her . was a man ― " The most beautiful of all , I think , a splendid dark ruffian , lounging along . He wanted to show off , and his swagger was perfect . Long black onyx eyes , and a tumble of black curls , and teeth like ...
I asked her . was a man ― " The most beautiful of all , I think , a splendid dark ruffian , lounging along . He wanted to show off , and his swagger was perfect . Long black onyx eyes , and a tumble of black curls , and teeth like ...
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