The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1914 |
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... waiting for her , and meanwhile making the cramped house still more cramped by evolving , Heaven knows how , an inexplicable confusion out of order , wherever she moved . It was Stella's habit to sleep in her turquoise earrings ; the ...
... waiting for her , and meanwhile making the cramped house still more cramped by evolving , Heaven knows how , an inexplicable confusion out of order , wherever she moved . It was Stella's habit to sleep in her turquoise earrings ; the ...
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... waiting for results , or perhaps patient attention only , observation and calculations of a mechanical kind . ' A great discovery may turn up by accident . A lucky " by- product , " so to speak , may turn up in some experiment that in ...
... waiting for results , or perhaps patient attention only , observation and calculations of a mechanical kind . ' A great discovery may turn up by accident . A lucky " by- product , " so to speak , may turn up in some experiment that in ...
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... waiting ; she had closed her door lest she should hear him saying anything to Stella outside . She closed her ears for some seconds - it seemed a long time and when she opened them she heard him come along the passage , pass her door ...
... waiting ; she had closed her door lest she should hear him saying anything to Stella outside . She closed her ears for some seconds - it seemed a long time and when she opened them she heard him come along the passage , pass her door ...
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... waiting to sell it all to a dealer . ' I looked at the East end . There was a poor flat alabaster reredos , with three compartments crowded with tasteless figures , and little blobs of bright - coloured crystals inserted , looking like ...
... waiting to sell it all to a dealer . ' I looked at the East end . There was a poor flat alabaster reredos , with three compartments crowded with tasteless figures , and little blobs of bright - coloured crystals inserted , looking like ...
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... waiting , the end of the tragedy came to pass . One afternoon , January 13 , officers at the gate of Jellalabad saw a solitary horseman advancing on a staggering horse . It was Dr. Brydon , the only survivor of Elphinstone's brigade ...
... waiting , the end of the tragedy came to pass . One afternoon , January 13 , officers at the gate of Jellalabad saw a solitary horseman advancing on a staggering horse . It was Dr. Brydon , the only survivor of Elphinstone's brigade ...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volym 17; Volym 64 William Makepeace Thackeray Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1891 |
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ain't asked Aunt Dorothy beautiful Bembo Broughton Bungard called captain colour course dear death door eyes face father feel felt fire friends geese George girl give hand Hazel head hear heard heart hills honour hour House of Commons Jellalabad John Lacey Kabul Kandahar Kiddie knew Lady Dorothy laughed letter live looked Lord Lord Salisbury MacDuff mahout Major Kames married Maud Maud's Mills mind morning mother Mustapha Muswell Hill never night officers once passed perhaps Peshawur poor realised regiment round Samantha seemed silence Sir Robert Sale smile Spragge Spragge's Stella stood sure talk tell thing thought told took turned Ursula village voice waiting walked wife Wilbur William Aiton woman women wonder words wrote XXXVII.-NO young
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Sida 387 - Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
Sida 559 - Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Sida 50 - Good my lord, You have begot me, bred me, loved me : I Return those duties back as are right fit, Obey you, love you, and most honour you. Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all ? Haply...
Sida 193 - A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at ! Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live, or bear no life...
Sida 210 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave : Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell, Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow ; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Sida 390 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form. The flames...
Sida 193 - It was ordained for the mutual society, help, and comfort, that the one ought to have of the other, both in prosperity and adversity.
Sida 210 - Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze ! Your glorious standard launch again, To match another foe ! And sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow; While the battle And the stormy win< s loud and long, do blow.
Sida 42 - I do not like you, Dr. Fell, The reason why, I cannot tell ; But this I know, and know full well, I do not like you, Dr. FelL
Sida 342 - And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them.