Life ...Houghton, Mifflin, 1874 - 208 pages |
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Page 13
... feet . I never saw a more unforgettable face , — pale , serious , lonely , delicate , sweet , without being at all what we call fine . She looked sixty , and had on a mutch , white as snow , with its black ribbon , her silvery , smooth ...
... feet . I never saw a more unforgettable face , — pale , serious , lonely , delicate , sweet , without being at all what we call fine . She looked sixty , and had on a mutch , white as snow , with its black ribbon , her silvery , smooth ...
Page 31
... feet stumbled over the accustomed walks . In his quality of houseless wanderer , and , so far as appeared to others , - possibly , worth- less vagabond , he also got a new and instructive effect upon the faces which , in his real ...
... feet stumbled over the accustomed walks . In his quality of houseless wanderer , and , so far as appeared to others , - possibly , worth- less vagabond , he also got a new and instructive effect upon the faces which , in his real ...
Page 46
... feet in height , with a soft voice and an embarrassed , timid man- ner . The term " roughs , " applied to them , was a dis- tinction rather than a definition . Perhaps in the minor details of fingers , toes , ears , etc. , the camp may ...
... feet in height , with a soft voice and an embarrassed , timid man- ner . The term " roughs , " applied to them , was a dis- tinction rather than a definition . Perhaps in the minor details of fingers , toes , ears , etc. , the camp may ...
Page 47
... feet as one man . It was pro- posed to explode a barrel of gunpowder ; but , in consid- eration of the mother , better counsels prevailed , and only a few revolvers were discharged . For , whether owing to the rude surgery of the camp ...
... feet as one man . It was pro- posed to explode a barrel of gunpowder ; but , in consid- eration of the mother , better counsels prevailed , and only a few revolvers were discharged . For , whether owing to the rude surgery of the camp ...
Page 55
... feet . A flake of glittering mica , a frag- ment of variegated quartz , a bright pebble from the bed of the creek , became beautiful to eyes thus cleared and strengthened , and were invariably put aside for The Luck . It was wonderful ...
... feet . A flake of glittering mica , a frag- ment of variegated quartz , a bright pebble from the bed of the creek , became beautiful to eyes thus cleared and strengthened , and were invariably put aside for The Luck . It was wonderful ...
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