Mark Twain's Library of HumorC. L. Webster, 1888 - 707 páginas |
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... called on good - natured , garrulous old Simon Wheeler , and inquired after my friend's friend , Leonidas W. Smiley , as requested to do , and I hereunto append the result . I have a lurking suspicion that Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth ...
... called on good - natured , garrulous old Simon Wheeler , and inquired after my friend's friend , Leonidas W. Smiley , as requested to do , and I hereunto append the result . I have a lurking suspicion that Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth ...
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... called her the fifteen- minute nag , but that was only in fun , you know , because of course she was faster than that - and he used to win money on that horse , for all she was so slow , and always had the asthma , or the distemper , or ...
... called her the fifteen- minute nag , but that was only in fun , you know , because of course she was faster than that - and he used to win money on that horse , for all she was so slow , and always had the asthma , or the distemper , or ...
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... called from the front yard , and got up to see what was wanted . ] " A turning to me as he moved away , he said : ' Just set where you are , stranger , and rest easy - I ain't going to be gone a second . ' ' But , by your leave , I did ...
... called from the front yard , and got up to see what was wanted . ] " A turning to me as he moved away , he said : ' Just set where you are , stranger , and rest easy - I ain't going to be gone a second . ' ' But , by your leave , I did ...
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... called them ) had their story , like everything else in Rivermouth . When that everlast- ing last war - the war of 1812 , I mean - came to an end , all the brigs , schooners and barks fitted out at this port as privateers were as eager ...
... called them ) had their story , like everything else in Rivermouth . When that everlast- ing last war - the war of 1812 , I mean - came to an end , all the brigs , schooners and barks fitted out at this port as privateers were as eager ...
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... called himself the Admiral , and I am sure he deserved to be one . The Admiral's flag was flying , and I soon procured a gimlet from his carefully kept tool - chest . Before long we had the gun in working order . A newspaper lashed to ...
... called himself the Admiral , and I am sure he deserved to be one . The Admiral's flag was flying , and I soon procured a gimlet from his carefully kept tool - chest . Before long we had the gun in working order . A newspaper lashed to ...
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Página 506 - Fifty-five! This morning the parson takes a drive. Now, small boys, get out of the way! Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay, Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay. "Huddup!" said the parson.— Off went they. The parson was working his Sunday's text,— Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the— Moses— was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n'-house on the hill.
Página 158 - Nicholas Vedder?" There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin piping voice, "Nicholas Vedder! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the church-yard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
Página 87 - Which is why I remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain.
Página 357 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Página 545 - In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew And saw the lion's shadow ere himself And ran dismay'd away. Lor. In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea banks and waft her love To come again to Carthage.
Página 505 - He would build one shay to beat the taown 'n' the keounty 'n' all the kentry raoun' ; It should be so built that it couldn' break daown : " Fur," said the Deacon, " 't 's mighty plain Thut the weakes' place mus' stan' the strain ; 'n' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest T' make that place uz strong uz the rest.
Página 98 - Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, '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'.
Página 89 - But the hands that were played By that heathen Chinee, And the points that he made, Were quite frightful to see, — Till at last he put down a right bower, Which the same Nye had dealt unto me. Then I looked up at Nye, And he gazed upon me ; And he rose with a sigh, And said, " Can this be? We are ruined by Chinese cheap labour," — And he went for that heathen Chinee.
Página 151 - From even this strong-hold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his termagant wife, who would suddenly break in upon the tranquillity of the assemblage and call the members all to naught ; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who charged him outright with encouraging her husband in habits of idleness.
Página 149 - Rip's sole domestic adherent was his dog Wolf, who was as much henpecked as his master ; for Dame Van Winkle regarded them as companions in idleness, and even looked upon Wolf with an evil eye, as the cause of his master's going so often astray.