Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 99Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Scribner & Company; The Century Company, 1919 - American literature |
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Page 54
... light as a fly's wing would brush my arm . I would turn to meet the terrible begging gaze in the eyes of some child - some sin of the fathers that should never have been born . Everywhere were beg- gars and the wretched , and all with ...
... light as a fly's wing would brush my arm . I would turn to meet the terrible begging gaze in the eyes of some child - some sin of the fathers that should never have been born . Everywhere were beg- gars and the wretched , and all with ...
Page 56
... light through it . Just as I looked , a shadow seemed to pass it , quickly , like a wraith , a fancy . I shut my eyes . I was afraid to look . Perhaps it was a cat over a ventilator , which had been closed be- fore . Again I looked ...
... light through it . Just as I looked , a shadow seemed to pass it , quickly , like a wraith , a fancy . I shut my eyes . I was afraid to look . Perhaps it was a cat over a ventilator , which had been closed be- fore . Again I looked ...
Page 60
... light . A little room , hot , close , and empty , with a peculiar sepulchral smell in which chloride of lime could be de- tected . I looked all around . There was a door , with a heavy , padlocked bar across , which must have led to the ...
... light . A little room , hot , close , and empty , with a peculiar sepulchral smell in which chloride of lime could be de- tected . I looked all around . There was a door , with a heavy , padlocked bar across , which must have led to the ...
Page 66
... light . Most of them merry , Some of them grave , Each of them lithe As willows that wave . Some bearing violets , Some bearing bay ; One with a burning rose Hidden away . T O ALL the nations that participated in the con- 66 THE CENTURY ...
... light . Most of them merry , Some of them grave , Each of them lithe As willows that wave . Some bearing violets , Some bearing bay ; One with a burning rose Hidden away . T O ALL the nations that participated in the con- 66 THE CENTURY ...
Page 79
... light it can , and study and discuss the consequences of the treaty from every angle ? Denouncing the Senate for per- forming its duty under the Constitu- tion ; imputing unworthy motives to every senator who does not show an in ...
... light it can , and study and discuss the consequences of the treaty from every angle ? Denouncing the Senate for per- forming its duty under the Constitu- tion ; imputing unworthy motives to every senator who does not show an in ...
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