Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 116Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Scribner & Company; The Century Company, 1928 - American literature |
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... , It ticked away in a mood unwitting , And half remembering the cattle and cows , And Tirzah Potter before it knitting , And the mornings when it struck to rouse Harvesters and men of plows . Then after a time the nephew failed , and what.
... , It ticked away in a mood unwitting , And half remembering the cattle and cows , And Tirzah Potter before it knitting , And the mornings when it struck to rouse Harvesters and men of plows . Then after a time the nephew failed , and what.
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... half - way home , not yet . " Ut's horrified ears seized the whis- pered words and he tried to yell ; but his frozen tongue could make no sound . His ears began roaring like the river in a flood . He could not think for its noise . But ...
... half - way home , not yet . " Ut's horrified ears seized the whis- pered words and he tried to yell ; but his frozen tongue could make no sound . His ears began roaring like the river in a flood . He could not think for its noise . But ...
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... half the night of those bottomless. I WONDER what a robin calls a thrush . Does it recognize its re- lationship ? If it does , American though it be , it likely would use the old English " coz , " not cousin . A robin is not given to ...
... half the night of those bottomless. I WONDER what a robin calls a thrush . Does it recognize its re- lationship ? If it does , American though it be , it likely would use the old English " coz , " not cousin . A robin is not given to ...
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... half a dozen of their words , and even one of these I take no satisfaction in be- cause I suspect that it may be not bird language at all , but just English . The catbird calling me to drive away a cat does so with a distinctly uttered ...
... half a dozen of their words , and even one of these I take no satisfaction in be- cause I suspect that it may be not bird language at all , but just English . The catbird calling me to drive away a cat does so with a distinctly uttered ...
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... half - collapsed paper cup . Wrens are very small , just voice and wings . But what bright chaps they are , and so honored too through long tradition . Little Kings they are called . You know that if you kill one of these diminutive ...
... half - collapsed paper cup . Wrens are very small , just voice and wings . But what bright chaps they are , and so honored too through long tradition . Little Kings they are called . You know that if you kill one of these diminutive ...
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