Wallace's Monthly, Volym 3

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Benjamin Singerly, Publisher, 1877
 

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Sida 28 - Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.
Sida 56 - ... around from place to place; probable areas of rain, snow, hail, and drought, succeeded or preceded by earthquakes, with thunder and lightning. Then he jots down this postscript from his wandering mind, to cover accidents : " But it is possible that the programme may be wholly changed in the mean time.
Sida 28 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
Sida 57 - But, after all, there are at least one or two things about that weather (or, if you please, effects produced by it) which we residents would not like to part with.
Sida 56 - I told him what we could do in the way of style, variety, and quantity. Well, he came and he made his collection in four days. As to variety, why, he confessed that he got hundreds of kinds of weather that he had never heard of before.
Sida 56 - It is utterly disproportioned to the size of that little country. Half the time, when it is packed as full as it can stick, you will see that New England weather sticking out beyond the edges and projecting around hundreds and hundreds of miles over the neighboring states. She can't hold a tenth part of her weather.
Sida 29 - Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Sida 56 - Why, what awful thunder you have here ! " But when the baton is raised and the real concert begins, you'll find that stranger down in the cellar, with his head in the ash-barrel.
Sida 56 - I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather clerk's factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it.
Sida 56 - I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather clerk's factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then .are promoted to make •weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it. There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration — and regret.

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