Theme-buildingScott, Foresman, 1920 - 562 pages |
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... reader ought to pass readily from the idea in the first sentence to the idea in the second , and from that to the third , through the paragraph ; then he ought to find his course straight and easy to the second paragraph , and through ...
... reader ought to pass readily from the idea in the first sentence to the idea in the second , and from that to the third , through the paragraph ; then he ought to find his course straight and easy to the second paragraph , and through ...
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... reader has just been told about the advance of Braddock's army through the wilderness to a point not far from Fort Duquesne . ) 1. Scouts and Indian runners had brought the tidings of Braddock's approach to the French at Fort Duquesne ...
... reader has just been told about the advance of Braddock's army through the wilderness to a point not far from Fort Duquesne . ) 1. Scouts and Indian runners had brought the tidings of Braddock's approach to the French at Fort Duquesne ...
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... readers from scene to scene ; he takes us steadily from the Fort and its surrounding camps of Indians through the ... reader on easily to the objective . A few apparent exceptions are worth comment . ( 1 ) In this incomplete fragment ...
... readers from scene to scene ; he takes us steadily from the Fort and its surrounding camps of Indians through the ... reader on easily to the objective . A few apparent exceptions are worth comment . ( 1 ) In this incomplete fragment ...
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... reader does not care who won the fight . For aught we know , Goliath was a fine gentleman and David a conceited lad who deserved to be killed . Our sympa- thies are not enlisted . Even though we may like to see an in- genious boy ...
... reader does not care who won the fight . For aught we know , Goliath was a fine gentleman and David a conceited lad who deserved to be killed . Our sympa- thies are not enlisted . Even though we may like to see an in- genious boy ...
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... reader get the picture , so that the crisis will seem real and the change of fortune more interesting ? " Since events cannot happen in empty space , they must be staged in definite buildings or fields or sub- marines . 4. Motives . The ...
... reader get the picture , so that the crisis will seem real and the change of fortune more interesting ? " Since events cannot happen in empty space , they must be staged in definite buildings or fields or sub- marines . 4. Motives . The ...
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Page 7 - I came home to my fortification, not feeling, as we say, the ground I went on, but terrified to the last degree, looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man...
Page 231 - ... remained. The rocks presented a high impenetrable wall over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows of the surrounding forest. Here, then, poor Rip was brought to a stand. He again called and whistled after his dog; he was only answered by the cawing of a flock of idle crows...
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Page 231 - Here, then, poor Rip was brought to a stand. He again called and whistled after his dog; he was only answered by the cawing of a flock of idle crows sporting high in air about a dry tree that overhung a sunny precipice, and who, secure in their elevation, seemed to look down and scoff...
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Page 7 - It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand.
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