Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 100Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1920 - American literature |
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... 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 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 ...
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... 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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... present every - nation - for - itself - and - the - devil- take - the - hindmost system prevails , there will be ugly and reprehensible policies that call not so much for our impugning the motives of the nations holding to them , as for ...
... present every - nation - for - itself - and - the - devil- take - the - hindmost system prevails , there will be ugly and reprehensible policies that call not so much for our impugning the motives of the nations holding to them , as for ...
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