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... about eight o'clock and got some break- fast . Hogan had his two customers out in the barn doing exercises . I went out and watched them . ' One ! Two ! Three ! Four ! ' Hogan was counting for them . ' Hello , Jerry , ' he said .
... about eight o'clock and got some break- fast . Hogan had his two customers out in the barn doing exercises . I went out and watched them . ' One ! Two ! Three ! Four ! ' Hogan was counting for them . ' Hello , Jerry , ' he said .
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Three or four times Jack brings the right over , but Walcott gets it on the shoulder or high up on the head . He's just like all these hookers . The only thing he's afraid of is another one of the same kind . He's covered every- where ...
Three or four times Jack brings the right over , but Walcott gets it on the shoulder or high up on the head . He's just like all these hookers . The only thing he's afraid of is another one of the same kind . He's covered every- where ...
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And the doorkeeper of the Sahib's office is a Hindu , and demandeth a gift — two annas [ four cents ] he demandeth . The Bibi knoweth that this is Bombay and the sarkar alloweth not weapons and maketh a great matter of every killing ...
And the doorkeeper of the Sahib's office is a Hindu , and demandeth a gift — two annas [ four cents ] he demandeth . The Bibi knoweth that this is Bombay and the sarkar alloweth not weapons and maketh a great matter of every killing ...
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It was a bright and mild spring afternoon , and the drive to Walpole was , in a degree , tranquillizing and refreshing , after the strong and painful excitement of our feelings during the last twenty - four hours .
It was a bright and mild spring afternoon , and the drive to Walpole was , in a degree , tranquillizing and refreshing , after the strong and painful excitement of our feelings during the last twenty - four hours .
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We are rather fortunate in our com- panions ; that is , amongst thirty - two people there are only three or four whom one wishes decidedly to avoid . There is a queer medley , for there are four Englishmen , three of them miners in ...
We are rather fortunate in our com- panions ; that is , amongst thirty - two people there are only three or four whom one wishes decidedly to avoid . There is a queer medley , for there are four Englishmen , three of them miners in ...
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Page 277 - make of it!' He became conscious of the words his brother was reading. 'Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and hi the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these
Page 548 - glowing; rapturous and frightened by turns. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done. It must have been the eye of his heart which he had been
Page 369 - in office, to which your suffrages have twice called me, have been a uniform sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of duty, and to a deference to what appeared to be your wishes. ... I rejoice that the state of your concerns, external as well as internal, no longer renders the pursuit of inclination incompatible with the pursuit of duty or propriety.
Page 377 - in retiring from the presidential office after their second term, has become, by universal concurrence, a part of our republican system of government, and that any departure from this time-honored custom would be unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free institutions. There
Page 343 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.
Page 201 - Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Page 277 - the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 317 - The impression we receive is of a feverish struggle for literary existence, a terrible pressure of the poetical population on the means of subsistence. 'Pope writes: — When sick of muse our follies we deplore And promise our best friends to write no more, We wake next morning in a raging fit, And call for pen and ink to show our wit.
Page 720 - God hath given power to his ministers to declare and pronounce to his people, being penitent, the absolution and remission of their sins, and that
Page 370 - General Washington set the example of retirement at the end of eight years. I shall follow it; and a few more precedents will oppose the obstacle of habit to any one after a while who shall endeavor to extend his term.