Dragons' Teeth, Volume 1L. Booth, 1863 - English fiction |
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... hard to read ; especially when he returned to the General very short answers to many a question which seemed , in Richard's homely phrase , " a making free with what wasn't his'n , " and too much like " reckoning the chickens be- fore ...
... hard to read ; especially when he returned to the General very short answers to many a question which seemed , in Richard's homely phrase , " a making free with what wasn't his'n , " and too much like " reckoning the chickens be- fore ...
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... hard - earned riches , as if they were dotting down and mapping so many acres of the sky ! However exaggerated a picture this may be of some rich men , it was true to the life of Thomas Walford ; it is equally true of many another ...
... hard - earned riches , as if they were dotting down and mapping so many acres of the sky ! However exaggerated a picture this may be of some rich men , it was true to the life of Thomas Walford ; it is equally true of many another ...
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... they take to gratify it ! Thomas Walford , now , after thirty years ' hard work , was about fifty years of age , when one day , to the surprise of his clerks , his hat no A HALT IN HIS GALLOP . 13 more appeared , 12 DRAGONS ' TEETH .
... they take to gratify it ! Thomas Walford , now , after thirty years ' hard work , was about fifty years of age , when one day , to the surprise of his clerks , his hat no A HALT IN HIS GALLOP . 13 more appeared , 12 DRAGONS ' TEETH .
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... hard , harsh , and pretentious , living in a very atmosphere of mistake and affecta- tion , one touch of truth and sincerity lets in a ray of daylight fatal to the whole illusion . Nevertheless , the world , it seems , will never want ...
... hard , harsh , and pretentious , living in a very atmosphere of mistake and affecta- tion , one touch of truth and sincerity lets in a ray of daylight fatal to the whole illusion . Nevertheless , the world , it seems , will never want ...
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... hard reverse of fortune . If the effect of coming into a handsome fortune is really so apt to hurl man's reason from its throne , it is , perhaps , an instance of the goodness of Providence that a sudden for- tune is almost always ...
... hard reverse of fortune . If the effect of coming into a handsome fortune is really so apt to hurl man's reason from its throne , it is , perhaps , an instance of the goodness of Providence that a sudden for- tune is almost always ...
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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.