Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 100Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1920 - American literature |
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Page 14
... present to the past , so recent , yet so remote ! Until a few months before Bessie had shaken a gay head with its crinkly red- brown hair as defiantly as a frisky colt at anything that did not please her , and had twinkled her amber ...
... present to the past , so recent , yet so remote ! Until a few months before Bessie had shaken a gay head with its crinkly red- brown hair as defiantly as a frisky colt at anything that did not please her , and had twinkled her amber ...
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... present is to convince the ignorant caco rank and file that the great Charlemagne is dead . His superstitious followers credit him with supernatural powers , and many a cap- tured bandit , when asked who is now his commander - in ...
... present is to convince the ignorant caco rank and file that the great Charlemagne is dead . His superstitious followers credit him with supernatural powers , and many a cap- tured bandit , when asked who is now his commander - in ...
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... present , and future , known and un- known . We shall be for our contribu- tion to psychology as impudent and dar- ing as the futurists and vers - librists ; we shall peer and prowl and exultingly imagine . We shall wallow in sentiment ...
... present , and future , known and un- known . We shall be for our contribu- tion to psychology as impudent and dar- ing as the futurists and vers - librists ; we shall peer and prowl and exultingly imagine . We shall wallow in sentiment ...
Page 55
... present issue , and I find that the great ladies over here enjoy it as much as the Dorcas Society does in an Idaho village . I sat forward , for I wished to get into the talk again , if only as a member of the Dorcas Society . " Why won ...
... present issue , and I find that the great ladies over here enjoy it as much as the Dorcas Society does in an Idaho village . I sat forward , for I wished to get into the talk again , if only as a member of the Dorcas Society . " Why won ...
Page 57
... present , as I have outlined before , we are in the worst stage of all , for the English servant will not work for those who are n't kind to her , yet despises those whose sway is gentle . I wish a woman's brain could be entirely taken ...
... present , as I have outlined before , we are in the worst stage of all , for the English servant will not work for those who are n't kind to her , yet despises those whose sway is gentle . I wish a woman's brain could be entirely taken ...
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