Harry MowbrayJ. Ollivier, 1843 - 384 páginas |
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... continued the Major ; " they came in capitally at breakfast . ' " " " I brought home something more than snipe to - day , Sir , " answered the Captain , with a slight , but significant smile . " What ! wild fowl ? " " No. " " A hare ...
... continued the Major ; " they came in capitally at breakfast . ' " " " I brought home something more than snipe to - day , Sir , " answered the Captain , with a slight , but significant smile . " What ! wild fowl ? " " No. " " A hare ...
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... continued the Captain ; " for the click of cocking the pistol completely floored him , he cried like a child , and made no attempt at resisting , but walked very submissively along to the police - station , where I left him in charge ...
... continued the Captain ; " for the click of cocking the pistol completely floored him , he cried like a child , and made no attempt at resisting , but walked very submissively along to the police - station , where I left him in charge ...
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... continued the narrator , " where the skull does not effectually protect the brain ; this is the place you always aim at when you are shooting them , and whe- ther her instinct made her aware of this spot or that she merely hit it by ...
... continued the narrator , " where the skull does not effectually protect the brain ; this is the place you always aim at when you are shooting them , and whe- ther her instinct made her aware of this spot or that she merely hit it by ...
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... continued his narrative : - - " As I told you , " said he , " upon my return from church this morn- ing , I was compelled by an impulse I could not resist to visit that chamber . I had never been in it before , having contented myself ...
... continued his narrative : - - " As I told you , " said he , " upon my return from church this morn- ing , I was compelled by an impulse I could not resist to visit that chamber . I had never been in it before , having contented myself ...
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... continued to make a proposal of marriage to her about once in every two years , and always with the same result ; and strange to say , the gentleman not being of a very excitable turn of mind , and being of opinion that a great deal of ...
... continued to make a proposal of marriage to her about once in every two years , and always with the same result ; and strange to say , the gentleman not being of a very excitable turn of mind , and being of opinion that a great deal of ...
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Página 174 - If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare; Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Página 211 - The merry minstrelsy. The Wedding-Guest he beat his breast, Yet he cannot choose but hear; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner.
Página 210 - He holds him with his skinny hand, 'There was a ship,' quoth he. 'Hold off! unhand me, greybeard loon!' Eftsoons his hand dropt he. He holds him with his glittering eye The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years child: The Mariner hath his will.
Página 214 - I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed ; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. 35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Página 206 - It is true I am surrounded by perils; it is true I am at war with the prince of the mountains and the Pacha of Acre; it is very true my enemies are capable of assassination; but if I do perish, my fall shall be a bloody one. I have plenty of arms, good Damascus blades, I use no guns, and while I have an arm to wield a hanjar, these barren rocks shall have a banquet of slaughter before
Página 210 - By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? 'The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, And I am next of kin; The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din.
Página 342 - Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting.
Página 122 - My nurse was fond of remarking that you cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear...