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... possible and ask central to call the fire engine take bob with you no cried hal hastily it's all over don't get any engine to deluge us stop , eleanor i discovered a heap of blackened curtains smoking under a rug and hal examining a ...
... possible and ask central to call the fire engine take bob with you no cried hal hastily it's all over don't get any engine to deluge us stop , eleanor i discovered a heap of blackened curtains smoking under a rug and hal examining a ...
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... possible . He must , at the same time , be sure to include all necessary information . It is far better , of course , to tell too much than not enough . If the writer wishes information , he should make his ques- tions real questions ...
... possible . He must , at the same time , be sure to include all necessary information . It is far better , of course , to tell too much than not enough . If the writer wishes information , he should make his ques- tions real questions ...
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... possible effort deliver the letter . To this end the stamp must be affixed in the proper place , the upper right - hand corner , the writing must be legi- ble , and the necessary items of the superscription arranged in their proper ...
... possible effort deliver the letter . To this end the stamp must be affixed in the proper place , the upper right - hand corner , the writing must be legi- ble , and the necessary items of the superscription arranged in their proper ...
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... possible in describing every part , and follow some plan in telling about them— either from the outside in or from the inside out . EXERCISE 49 - Dictation DEFINITE OBSERVATION OF COLOR Study the following paragraph and be able to write ...
... possible in describing every part , and follow some plan in telling about them— either from the outside in or from the inside out . EXERCISE 49 - Dictation DEFINITE OBSERVATION OF COLOR Study the following paragraph and be able to write ...
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... you should make your sentences as easy and natural as possible . The following theme uses many color words , though in a some- what awkward way . A THANKSGIVING LANDSCAPE At my left is a field of 62 FIRST BOOK OF COMPOSITION.
... you should make your sentences as easy and natural as possible . The following theme uses many color words , though in a some- what awkward way . A THANKSGIVING LANDSCAPE At my left is a field of 62 FIRST BOOK OF COMPOSITION.
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Page 74 - Tirra lirra,' by the river Sang Sir Lancelot. She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces thro...
Page 23 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 230 - These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing blossoms without end; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. "The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung! The word we had not sense to say — Who knows how grandly it had rung!
Page 120 - And now he feels the bottom ; Now on dry earth he stands; Now round him throng the Fathers To press his gory hands; And now with shouts and clapping, And noise of weeping loud, He enters through the River-Gate, Borne by the joyous crowd.
Page 76 - Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed...
Page 132 - Long as thine Art shall love true love, Long as thy Science truth shall know, Long as thine Eagle harms no Dove, Long as thy Law by law shall grow, Long as thy God is God above, Thy brother every man below, So long, dear Land of all my love, Thy name shall shine, thy fame shall glow !
Page 232 - Morn and eve, night and day, Have I piloted your bay, Entered free and anchored fast at the foot of Solidor. Burn the fleet and ruin France? That were worse than fifty Hogues! Sirs, they know I speak the truth! Sirs, believe me there's a way! Only let me lead the line, Have the biggest ship to steer, Get this Formidable...
Page 19 - Seaweed WHEN descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Storm-wind of the equinox, Landward in his wrath he scourges The toiling surges, Laden with seaweed from the rocks: From Bermuda's reefs; from edges Of sunken ledges, In some far-off, bright Azore; From Bahama, and the dashing, Silver-flashing Surges of San Salvador...
Page 172 - Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Page 118 - And the poplars tall ; And the barn's brown length, and the cattle-yard, And the white horns tossing above the wall.