The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 117Atlantic Monthly Company, 1916 |
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... land to last for at least six months . They appeared uninterested , and the grocer , who had raised his prices two pence in the shilling since he opened his shop that morning , irritated . He then ordered the rice and tapioca and sago ...
... land to last for at least six months . They appeared uninterested , and the grocer , who had raised his prices two pence in the shilling since he opened his shop that morning , irritated . He then ordered the rice and tapioca and sago ...
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... land to the sea was given over to the men in khaki . - So very hastily the Lady had to take her child and the nurse to one of those vulgar Thames - side towns , an idiot's paradise of geraniumed houseboats and polished punts . And there ...
... land to the sea was given over to the men in khaki . - So very hastily the Lady had to take her child and the nurse to one of those vulgar Thames - side towns , an idiot's paradise of geraniumed houseboats and polished punts . And there ...
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... land , when a long ground- swell waved but did not disturb the deep blue of the open sea , I unlaced my bag of jungle mould . Armed with for- ceps , lens , and vials I began my search . For days I had gazed upward ; now my scrutiny was ...
... land , when a long ground- swell waved but did not disturb the deep blue of the open sea , I unlaced my bag of jungle mould . Armed with for- ceps , lens , and vials I began my search . For days I had gazed upward ; now my scrutiny was ...
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... wonderful Pacific port which had played so great a part in our national development ; and interrupt- ing by one or more frontiers all inter- course by land with that extensive re- gion . An 50 MANIFEST DESTINY IN AMERICA.
... wonderful Pacific port which had played so great a part in our national development ; and interrupt- ing by one or more frontiers all inter- course by land with that extensive re- gion . An 50 MANIFEST DESTINY IN AMERICA.
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course by land with that extensive re- gion . An independent state of all New England would scarcely be a greater ... land , particularly , which gives to the holder thereof possession against all comers of that portion of the earth's ...
course by land with that extensive re- gion . An independent state of all New England would scarcely be a greater ... land , particularly , which gives to the holder thereof possession against all comers of that portion of the earth's ...
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Page 628 - I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Page 506 - Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Page 626 - Then the master of the house being angry, said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. And the Lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Page 514 - For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, saying ; Surely blessing I will bless thee ; and multiplying I will multiply thee.
Page 624 - For, behold, the day cometh, That shall burn as an oven ; And all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble : And the day that cometh shall burn them up, Saith the LORD of hosts, That it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Page 625 - AND the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ; and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him...
Page 627 - And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not : the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
Page 513 - It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 457 - Now, God be thanked, Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary...
Page 624 - If then God so clothe the grass, which is today in the field, and tomorrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?