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Page 122
... woman is turned into a love - magnet by a tingling current of life running round her . I should like to see one of them balanced on a pivot properly adjusted , and watch if she did not turn so as to point north and south , — as she ...
... woman is turned into a love - magnet by a tingling current of life running round her . I should like to see one of them balanced on a pivot properly adjusted , and watch if she did not turn so as to point north and south , — as she ...
Page 123
... woman's voice ; for , in the first place , I could only hear indistinctly ; and , secondly , he may have an organ , or some queer instrument or other , with what they call the voce ymana stop . If he moves his bed round to get out of ...
... woman's voice ; for , in the first place , I could only hear indistinctly ; and , secondly , he may have an organ , or some queer instrument or other , with what they call the voce ymana stop . If he moves his bed round to get out of ...
Page 125
... woman's looks when a fellah lays it in too strong . The feed's well enough . After geese have got tough , ' n ' turkeys have got strong , ' n ' lamb's got old , ' n ' veal's pretty nigh beef , ' n ' sparragrass's growin ' tall ' n ...
... woman's looks when a fellah lays it in too strong . The feed's well enough . After geese have got tough , ' n ' turkeys have got strong , ' n ' lamb's got old , ' n ' veal's pretty nigh beef , ' n ' sparragrass's growin ' tall ' n ...
Page 126
... woman now - a - days till you're so deaf you have to cock your head like a par- rot to hear what she says , and so long- sighted you can't see what she looks like nearer than arm's - length . Here is another chance for you , I said ...
... woman now - a - days till you're so deaf you have to cock your head like a par- rot to hear what she says , and so long- sighted you can't see what she looks like nearer than arm's - length . Here is another chance for you , I said ...
Page 127
... woman's voice , the clear- est , purest soprano which one could well conceive of . It was not loud , and I could not distinguish a word , if it was a wom- an's voice ; but there were recurring phrases of sound and snatches of rhythm ...
... woman's voice , the clear- est , purest soprano which one could well conceive of . It was not loud , and I could not distinguish a word , if it was a wom- an's voice ; but there were recurring phrases of sound and snatches of rhythm ...
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