The Humour of AmericaAngus Evan Abbott W. Scott, 1893 - 462 páginas |
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... person out of Kosciusko's jaws , but not enough to do me any good . I have owned , in all , eleven dogs , and they all died violent deaths , and went out of the world totally unprepared to die . Bill Nye . KNEE - DEEP IN JUNE . CEB.92 ...
... person out of Kosciusko's jaws , but not enough to do me any good . I have owned , in all , eleven dogs , and they all died violent deaths , and went out of the world totally unprepared to die . Bill Nye . KNEE - DEEP IN JUNE . CEB.92 ...
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... persons at a distance when the face is not v to the normal eye , so the man with a bad memory le almost unconsciously , to listen carefully and report rately . My memory is bad ; but I had not had tim forget that Mr. Brewster Brede had ...
... persons at a distance when the face is not v to the normal eye , so the man with a bad memory le almost unconsciously , to listen carefully and report rately . My memory is bad ; but I had not had tim forget that Mr. Brewster Brede had ...
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... persons who were in earnest conversation in the straggling , half - dead flower- garden at the side of the house . " I don't want , " we heard Mr. Jacobus say , " to enter in no man's pry - vacy ; but I do want to know who it may be ...
... persons who were in earnest conversation in the straggling , half - dead flower- garden at the side of the house . " I don't want , " we heard Mr. Jacobus say , " to enter in no man's pry - vacy ; but I do want to know who it may be ...
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... person I can best remember , as I look back , was our family physician . A very obese man was he , with certain sweet - oiliness of manner , and never put out of patience . I think I can see him still , as he arose from his chair after ...
... person I can best remember , as I look back , was our family physician . A very obese man was he , with certain sweet - oiliness of manner , and never put out of patience . I think I can see him still , as he arose from his chair after ...
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... person , addressed her . He might have done a more eccentric thing . Without troubling herself to look at him , she turned to her servant and requested him , with a yawn of desperate ennui , to knock that fellow down ! John obeyed his ...
... person , addressed her . He might have done a more eccentric thing . Without troubling herself to look at him , she turned to her servant and requested him , with a yawn of desperate ennui , to knock that fellow down ! John obeyed his ...
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Página 107 - To see my Ma? She's sprinklin' clo'es Agin to-morrer's i'nin'." To say why gals acts so or so, Or don't, 'ould be presumin'; Mebby to mean yes an' say no Comes nateral to women. He stood a spell on one foot fust, Then stood a spell on t'other, An' on which one he felt the wust He couldn't ha
Página 104 - em, danced 'em, druv 'em, Fust this one, an' then thet, by spells — All is, he could n't love 'em. But long o' her his veins 'ould run All crinkly like curled maple, The side she breshed felt full o' sun Ez a south slope in Ap'il.
Página 135 - I was dreadfully hipped. The hours seemed as if they would never creep by. The very ticking of the clock became irksome. At length the stillness of the house was interrupted by the ringing of a bell. Shortly after I heard the voice of a waiter at the bar: "The stout gentleman in No. 1 3 wants his breakfast. Tea and bread and butter, with ham and eggs; the eggs not to be too much done.
Página 106 - An' yit she gin her cheer a jerk Ez though she wished him furder, An' on her apples kep' to work, Parin
Página 135 - Boots, and all the other vagabond race that infest the purlieus of an inn ; but the bustle was transient ; the coach again whirled on its way ; and boy and dog, and hostler and Boots, all slunk back again to their holes ; the street again became silent, and the rain continued to rain on. In fact, there was no hope of its clearing up ; the barometer pointed to rainy weather ; mine...
Página 104 - ... Ith no one nigh to hender. A fireplace filled the room's one side With half a cord o' wood in — There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'. The wa'nut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her, An...
Página 319 - He is so spiritless and cowardly that even while his exposed teeth are pretending a threat, the rest of his face is apologizing for it. And he is so homely! — so scrawny, and ribby, and coarse-haired, and pitiful. When he sees you he lifts his lip and lets a flash of his teeth out, and then turns a little out of the...