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... ONCE · 277 • 289 304 317 . 334 MORE MEET TOGETHER IN UNITY 354 XXV . IS PASSED IN A PUBLIC - HOUSE 374 XXVI . IN WHICH COLONEL NEWCOME'S HORSES ARE SOLD 391 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . VOL . I. PAGE A STUDENT iv CONTENTS .
... ONCE · 277 • 289 304 317 . 334 MORE MEET TOGETHER IN UNITY 354 XXV . IS PASSED IN A PUBLIC - HOUSE 374 XXVI . IN WHICH COLONEL NEWCOME'S HORSES ARE SOLD 391 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . VOL . I. PAGE A STUDENT iv CONTENTS .
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... IN WHICH THE NEWCOME BROTHERS ONCE MORE MEET TOGETHER IN UNITY 354 XXV . Is PASSED IN A PUBLIC - HOUSE 374 XXVI . IN WHICH COLONEL Newcome's HORSES ARE SOLD 391 . . . LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . VOL . I. PAGE . . iv CONTENTS.
... IN WHICH THE NEWCOME BROTHERS ONCE MORE MEET TOGETHER IN UNITY 354 XXV . Is PASSED IN A PUBLIC - HOUSE 374 XXVI . IN WHICH COLONEL Newcome's HORSES ARE SOLD 391 . . . LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . VOL . I. PAGE . . iv CONTENTS.
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... once a month to his talking , a friend of the writer has seen the New World , and found the ( featherless ) birds there exceedingly like their breth- ren of Europe . There may be nothing new under and including the sun ; but it looks ...
... once a month to his talking , a friend of the writer has seen the New World , and found the ( featherless ) birds there exceedingly like their breth- ren of Europe . There may be nothing new under and including the sun ; but it looks ...
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... once a time when the sun used to shine brighter than it appears to do in this latter half of the nineteenth century ; when the zest of life was cer- tainly keener ; when tavern wines seemed to be de- licious , and tavern dinners the ...
... once a time when the sun used to shine brighter than it appears to do in this latter half of the nineteenth century ; when the zest of life was cer- tainly keener ; when tavern wines seemed to be de- licious , and tavern dinners the ...
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... once in his life , to what shame and degrada- tion and dishonor , drunkenness and whiskey may bring a man . Never mind the change , sir ! - Curse the change ! " says the Colonel , facing the amazed waiter . " Keep it till you see me in ...
... once in his life , to what shame and degrada- tion and dishonor , drunkenness and whiskey may bring a man . Never mind the change , sir ! - Curse the change ! " says the Colonel , facing the amazed waiter . " Keep it till you see me in ...
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Page 16 - He was a man, take him for all in all, We shall not look upon his like again: I know that statement's not original: What statement is, since Shakspere?
Page 315 - Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight. The tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Page 357 - ... confided to me subsequently as compiler of this biography, or are of such a nature that they must have happened from what we know happened after. For example, when you read such words as QVE ROMANVS on a battered Roman stone, your profound antiquarian knowledge enables you to assert that SfiNATVS POPVLVS was also inscribed there at some time or other.
Page 242 - ... from his mouth, and stooping down he kissed the little white hand with a great deal of grace and dignity. There was no point of resemblance, and yet a something in the girl's look, voice, and movements, which caused his heart to thrill, and an image out of the past to rise up and salute him. The eyes which had brightened his youth (and which he saw...
Page 10 - There was once a time when the sun used to shine brighter than it appears to do in this latter half of the nineteenth century...
Page 60 - I won't sit in the kitchen and boose in the servants' hall. As for that Tom Jones — that fellow that sells himself, sir — by heavens, my blood boils when I think of him ! I would n't sit down in the same room with such a fellow, sir. If he came in at that door, I would say, 'How dare you, you hireling ruffian, to sully with your presence an apartment where my young friend and I are conversing together ? where two gentlemen, I say, are taking their wine after dinner ? How dare you, you degraded...
Page 249 - Who was it that took the children to Astley's but Uncle Newcome? I saw him there in the midst of a cluster of these little people, all children together. He laughed delighted at Mr. Merryman's jokes in the ring. He beheld the Battle of Waterloo with breathless interest, and was amazed — amazed, by Jove, sir — at the prodigious likeness of the principal actor to the Emperor Napoleon...