The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 117Atlantic Monthly Company, 1916 - American essays |
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... tell the death of their friends , that she did not find tears in her eyes the minute she let her mind stray from the immediate world . But the war was not here . The nearest it came was when the dairy farmer's wife told her , as she was ...
... tell the death of their friends , that she did not find tears in her eyes the minute she let her mind stray from the immediate world . But the war was not here . The nearest it came was when the dairy farmer's wife told her , as she was ...
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... tell me that . ' Rupert looked at her , and since she did not look at him , it was very intent- ly , as if to measure to the full the differ- ence between this Marian and the Mar- ian he had known and believed in . It was hard to ...
... tell me that . ' Rupert looked at her , and since she did not look at him , it was very intent- ly , as if to measure to the full the differ- ence between this Marian and the Mar- ian he had known and believed in . It was hard to ...
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... tell you , who has given you more chances than you ever had in your life for meeting really interesting people ! They're not the sort you'd be likely to meet at your Aunt Sophy's , certainly . They'd per- ish in her milieu ! ' ' Mrs ...
... tell you , who has given you more chances than you ever had in your life for meeting really interesting people ! They're not the sort you'd be likely to meet at your Aunt Sophy's , certainly . They'd per- ish in her milieu ! ' ' Mrs ...
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... tell her . For she needed him ; he was sure of it . She needed him terribly . If she lifted him , yet how much , too , he could lift her , out of the lethargic shal- lows and sullen quagmires of her life . She could not be happy with ...
... tell her . For she needed him ; he was sure of it . She needed him terribly . If she lifted him , yet how much , too , he could lift her , out of the lethargic shal- lows and sullen quagmires of her life . She could not be happy with ...
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... tell you things I've been feeling ? I have been feeling so much about you — about myself . - I long to tell you . ' - ' By all means tell me , ' said Mrs. Dallas with great placidity ; and one could see that she had often made the same ...
... tell you things I've been feeling ? I have been feeling so much about you — about myself . - I long to tell you . ' - ' By all means tell me , ' said Mrs. Dallas with great placidity ; and one could see that she had often made the same ...
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Page 628 - I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Page 506 - Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Page 626 - Then the master of the house being angry, said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. And the Lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Page 514 - For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, saying ; Surely blessing I will bless thee ; and multiplying I will multiply thee.
Page 624 - For, behold, the day cometh, That shall burn as an oven ; And all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble : And the day that cometh shall burn them up, Saith the LORD of hosts, That it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Page 625 - AND the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ; and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him...
Page 627 - And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not : the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
Page 513 - It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 457 - Now, God be thanked, Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary...
Page 624 - If then God so clothe the grass, which is today in the field, and tomorrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?