A Writer's Notebook |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 20
Page 99
... smile . She used very little make - up . Her manner was easy , unaffected and well - bred ; it was that of a woman of the world who has always lived in good society . She made one remark which I think is the proudest thing I ever heard ...
... smile . She used very little make - up . Her manner was easy , unaffected and well - bred ; it was that of a woman of the world who has always lived in good society . She made one remark which I think is the proudest thing I ever heard ...
Page 291
... smile . I had a notion that he was a little pleased to talk of all the very grand people he had known , but that seemed his only vanity . He was most kind . He was a puritan and he told me he had never been in a theatre or a cinema in ...
... smile . I had a notion that he was a little pleased to talk of all the very grand people he had known , but that seemed his only vanity . He was most kind . He was a puritan and he told me he had never been in a theatre or a cinema in ...
Page 330
... smile and a wave of the hand walked away . I have seen soldiers in the U.S.O. clubs so home- sick that they were pitiful . In England mothers have been parting from their sons for three hundred years , sometimes knowing it was for ever ...
... smile and a wave of the hand walked away . I have seen soldiers in the U.S.O. clubs so home- sick that they were pitiful . In England mothers have been parting from their sons for three hundred years , sometimes knowing it was for ever ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Apia asked beauty Bermondsey blue boat casuarina Cesare Borgia character Chinese clean-shaven clouds coconut colour copra crowd dark dead death dhoty Dostoievsky dressed Dyak emotion English Eugène Sue eyes face feeling fellow felt Fiji fish France French friends gave girl give green grey hair happy head heart human humour imagination impression island Jeremy Taylor Jules Renard laugh lava-lavas lived look Malay married mind native never night nose novels one's Papeete passion persons play pleasure reef river round Russian sail sarongs Savinkov seemed sense side silent smile soul story strange Suva talk tall tell tennis shirt Tetiaroa thin thing thought tion told took toothbrush moustache trees turn veranda walk wears wife woman women words writers young youth