Scribner's Magazine ..., Volume 78C. Scribner's sons, 1925 |
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... seemed decent fel- lows , clean , courteous , and not shirkers . " " You didn't have to cross them , Rust- port . That's where they are like chil- dren . If you cross them they turn nasty , and just when you are congratulating yourself ...
... seemed decent fel- lows , clean , courteous , and not shirkers . " " You didn't have to cross them , Rust- port . That's where they are like chil- dren . If you cross them they turn nasty , and just when you are congratulating yourself ...
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... seemed to his master . His attitude at parting haunted Adrian through hours emptied suddenly of their chief interest and foremost comfort . He recalled the old woman in the fairy - tale who rolled a second cheese down the hill- side to ...
... seemed to his master . His attitude at parting haunted Adrian through hours emptied suddenly of their chief interest and foremost comfort . He recalled the old woman in the fairy - tale who rolled a second cheese down the hill- side to ...
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... seemed suddenly to unlock . He felt as if he sprawled , fawning on fate , praying to be spared the blow that had fallen . " And was this Indian woman , " he asked manfully , " the mother of the inimi- table. THE PERFECT SERVANT 25.
... seemed suddenly to unlock . He felt as if he sprawled , fawning on fate , praying to be spared the blow that had fallen . " And was this Indian woman , " he asked manfully , " the mother of the inimi- table. THE PERFECT SERVANT 25.
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... seemed to be penetrating into ergin wilderness , actually the lumber- ad been before him and culled out argest pine . A great storage - dam the West Branch at Ripogenus Thoreau would hardly recog- cook Lake , so high are its Yet such is ...
... seemed to be penetrating into ergin wilderness , actually the lumber- ad been before him and culled out argest pine . A great storage - dam the West Branch at Ripogenus Thoreau would hardly recog- cook Lake , so high are its Yet such is ...
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... seemed fated to slide back on the rush of the current . A Penobscot boatman " reading water , " holding his canoe , up stream or down , free of the rocks and logs , using to his advantage every eddy and backwater , and fighting easily ...
... seemed fated to slide back on the rush of the current . A Penobscot boatman " reading water , " holding his canoe , up stream or down , free of the rocks and logs , using to his advantage every eddy and backwater , and fighting easily ...
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Page 137 - For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Page 347 - Ask, and it shall be given you : seek, and you shall find : knock, and it shall be opened to you.
Page 664 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Page 99 - There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And — every — single — one — of — them — is — right!
Page 141 - Therefore since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure, Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
Page 350 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 138 - Universe forbade, in this twentieth century, the importation of Divine personages from any antique Mythology as ready-made sources or channels of Causation, even in verse, and excluded the celestial machinery of, say, Paradise Lost, as peremptorily as that of the Iliad or the Eddas. And the abandonment of the masculine pronoun in allusions to the First or Fundamental Energy seemed a necessary and logical consequence of the long abandonment by thinkers of the anthropomorphic conception of the same.
Page 137 - For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field : And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
Page 417 - And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure...