Dragons' Teeth, Volume 1L. Booth, 1863 - English fiction |
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... felt the spring of a fine trout or a salmon for the first three minutes after he is hooked - plying the rod from point to butt , and flinging himself desperately some feet above the water has yet to learn the highest thrill and tumult ...
... felt the spring of a fine trout or a salmon for the first three minutes after he is hooked - plying the rod from point to butt , and flinging himself desperately some feet above the water has yet to learn the highest thrill and tumult ...
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... felt all the more certain of doing so three months later - men tottering on the verge of insolvency , had run breathless into Catcham's office , too thankful to conciliate the managing clerk , Mr. Walford ; and to borrow , on ample ...
... felt all the more certain of doing so three months later - men tottering on the verge of insolvency , had run breathless into Catcham's office , too thankful to conciliate the managing clerk , Mr. Walford ; and to borrow , on ample ...
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... felt sure of suc- ceeding to the great part of the property by right of his wife , Mr. Walford's sister . Judging from circumstances , the sanguine man guessed - and , as the event proved , he guessed rightly — that , though a provision ...
... felt sure of suc- ceeding to the great part of the property by right of his wife , Mr. Walford's sister . Judging from circumstances , the sanguine man guessed - and , as the event proved , he guessed rightly — that , though a provision ...
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... felt for among all human bumps . They seemed to look upon the Will , and the amount it would be sworn under , as the sum and substance of the dead man's character , and as the best possible account of his stewardship , VOL . I. D and ...
... felt for among all human bumps . They seemed to look upon the Will , and the amount it would be sworn under , as the sum and substance of the dead man's character , and as the best possible account of his stewardship , VOL . I. D and ...
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... felt , in nerves unstrung , and in that general revulsion of feelings which can only be realised by those who have felt these mysterious shocks . We only glance at the two short months that yet remained to be fulfilled before the trials ...
... felt , in nerves unstrung , and in that general revulsion of feelings which can only be realised by those who have felt these mysterious shocks . We only glance at the two short months that yet remained to be fulfilled before the trials ...
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Page 93 - What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both: They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you.
Page 206 - s weel with you gentles, that can sit in the house with handkerchers at your een, when ye lose a friend; but the like o' us maun to our work again, if our hearts were beating as hard as ony hammer.
Page 69 - Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se quam quod ridiculos homines facit. "Exeat...
Page 225 - This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Page 13 - See also Jer. vii. 29. Micah i. 16. Isaiah vii. 20. No. 958. — ii. 4. Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath, will he give for his life.] Before the invention of money, trade used to be carried on by barter ; that is, by exchanging one commodity for another. The men who had been hunting in the woods for wild beasts would carry their skins to market, and exchange them with the armourer for so many bows and arrows. As these traffickers were...
Page 85 - Eton, and the other public schools, properly so called; and we hope and trust that an effort will now be made on the part of the Masters and Fellows of Eton to do full justice to those committed to their charge.