Mark Twain's Library of HumorC. L. Webster, 1888 - 707 páginas |
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... hundred yards ' start , and then pass her under way ; but always at the fag - end of the race she'd get excited and desperate - like , and come cavorting and straddling up , and scattering her legs around limber , sometimes in the air ...
... hundred yards ' start , and then pass her under way ; but always at the fag - end of the race she'd get excited and desperate - like , and come cavorting and straddling up , and scattering her legs around limber , sometimes in the air ...
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... hundred . It is not difficult to learn to cast ; but it is difficult to learn not to snap off the flies at every throw . Of this , however , we will not speak . I continued casting for some moments , until I became satisfied that there ...
... hundred . It is not difficult to learn to cast ; but it is difficult to learn not to snap off the flies at every throw . Of this , however , we will not speak . I continued casting for some moments , until I became satisfied that there ...
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... hundred feet of silk swished through the air , and the tail - fly fell as lightly on the water as a three - cent - piece ( which no slamming will give the weight of a ten ) drops upon the contribution - plate . Instantly there was a ...
... hundred feet of silk swished through the air , and the tail - fly fell as lightly on the water as a three - cent - piece ( which no slamming will give the weight of a ten ) drops upon the contribution - plate . Instantly there was a ...
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... hundred trifles , which would pass unnoticed at another time , seem to point at him with convicting fingers . No doubt Guy Fawkes himself received many a start after he had got his wicked kegs of gun- powder neatly piled up under the ...
... hundred trifles , which would pass unnoticed at another time , seem to point at him with convicting fingers . No doubt Guy Fawkes himself received many a start after he had got his wicked kegs of gun- powder neatly piled up under the ...
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... hundred people , in vari- ous stages of excitement , crowded about the upper end of the wharf , not liking to advance farther until they were satisfied that the explosions were over . A board was here and there blown from the fence ...
... hundred people , in vari- ous stages of excitement , crowded about the upper end of the wharf , not liking to advance farther until they were satisfied that the explosions were over . A board was here and there blown from the fence ...
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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.