Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 105Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1923 - American literature |
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... mind . Her husband , Kristàver Myran , was still the handsomest man Gin the district , but he was out on the sea the greater part of the year , chaining her to a life on the wild , barren shore , and filling her with such fear and un ...
... mind . Her husband , Kristàver Myran , was still the handsomest man Gin the district , but he was out on the sea the greater part of the year , chaining her to a life on the wild , barren shore , and filling her with such fear and un ...
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... mind . If the boat had capsized with others , why should he be better able to keep her right way up ? Was not that merely a boast ? And would he dare to take his eldest boy with him in such a venture ? He smiled at this , however ...
... mind . If the boat had capsized with others , why should he be better able to keep her right way up ? Was not that merely a boast ? And would he dare to take his eldest boy with him in such a venture ? He smiled at this , however ...
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... mind was full of all the bustle down by the sea , but when she had passed Lindegaard , and the valley lay before her in the hot autumn sunshine , with its farms and woods , where bright patches of scar- let leafage stood out here and ...
... mind was full of all the bustle down by the sea , but when she had passed Lindegaard , and the valley lay before her in the hot autumn sunshine , with its farms and woods , where bright patches of scar- let leafage stood out here and ...
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... mind well prepared for them . The excep- tional boy in the exceptional home may have the background for reading Shakspere with honest appreciation , but I am seriously inclined to doubt that . I am much inclined to view the average ...
... mind well prepared for them . The excep- tional boy in the exceptional home may have the background for reading Shakspere with honest appreciation , but I am seriously inclined to doubt that . I am much inclined to view the average ...
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... mind singularly free from any moral strabismus . The book was widely reviewed and approved . It was the joy of reform editorial writers who in later years quoted from the book when Senator Penrose was in position to carry out his early ...
... mind singularly free from any moral strabismus . The book was widely reviewed and approved . It was the joy of reform editorial writers who in later years quoted from the book when Senator Penrose was in position to carry out his early ...
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Page 227 - I pray God everything goes well with Maria Concepcion from this out," she would say, "for she has had her share of trouble." When some idle person repeated this to the deserted woman, she went down to Lupe's house and stood within the clearing and called to the medicine woman, who sat in her doorway stirring a mess of her infallible cure for sores: "Keep your prayers to yourself, Lupe, or offer them for others who need them.
Page 229 - That's nothing. Look, my chief, to be married in the church is a great misfortune for a man. After that he is not himself any more. How can that woman complain when I do not drink even at fiestas enough to be really drunk? I do not beat her; never, never. We were always at peace. I say to her, Come here, and she comes straight.