The Writings of Mark Twain, Volume 2Harper & brothers, 1899 |
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Pagina 39
... morning . The path led straight up a rugged sweep of loose chunks of pumice - stone , and for about every two steps forward we took , we slid back one . It was so excessively steep that we had to stop , every fifty or sixty steps , and ...
... morning . The path led straight up a rugged sweep of loose chunks of pumice - stone , and for about every two steps forward we took , we slid back one . It was so excessively steep that we had to stop , every fifty or sixty steps , and ...
Pagina 40
... morning mists and fired this tinted magnificence , it topped imperial Vesuvius like a jeweled crown ! The crater itself the ditch - was not so varie- gated in coloring , but yet , in its softness , richness , and unpretentious elegance ...
... morning mists and fired this tinted magnificence , it topped imperial Vesuvius like a jeweled crown ! The crater itself the ditch - was not so varie- gated in coloring , but yet , in its softness , richness , and unpretentious elegance ...
Pagina 56
... morning we swept through the Straits of Messina , and so bright was the moonlight that Italy on the one hand and Sicily on the other seemed almost as distinctly visible as though we looked at them from the middle of a street we were ...
... morning we swept through the Straits of Messina , and so bright was the moonlight that Italy on the one hand and Sicily on the other seemed almost as distinctly visible as though we looked at them from the middle of a street we were ...
Pagina 73
... morning . They slipped away so quietly that they were not missed from the ship for several hours . They had the hardihood to march into the Piræus in the early dusk and hire a carriage . They ran some danger of adding two or three ...
... morning . They slipped away so quietly that they were not missed from the ship for several hours . They had the hardihood to march into the Piræus in the early dusk and hire a carriage . They ran some danger of adding two or three ...
Pagina 78
... the broad sea of Marmora , and then the land soon fading from view , we re- sumed euchre and whist once more . We dropped anchor in the mouth of the Golden Horn at daylight in the morning . Only three or 78 The Innocents Abroad.
... the broad sea of Marmora , and then the land soon fading from view , we re- sumed euchre and whist once more . We dropped anchor in the mouth of the Golden Horn at daylight in the morning . Only three or 78 The Innocents Abroad.
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Populaire passages
Pagina 179 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care. And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day. Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Pagina 206 - And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus; and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven; and he fell to the earth and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Pagina 143 - Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Pagina 308 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
Pagina 317 - And there was a great famine in Samaria : and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Pagina 314 - And they went to bury her : but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
Pagina 160 - If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.
Pagina 221 - And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Pagina 236 - And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
Pagina 315 - And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the seaside for multitude.