Mark Twain's Pleasure Trip on the ContinentJohn Camden Hotten, 1871 - 259 pagina's |
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Pagina 20
... thing to be proud of . I had not always escaped before . If there is one thing in the world that will make a man peculiarly and insufferably self - conceited , it is to have his stomach behave itself the first day at sea , when nearly ...
... thing to be proud of . I had not always escaped before . If there is one thing in the world that will make a man peculiarly and insufferably self - conceited , it is to have his stomach behave itself the first day at sea , when nearly ...
Pagina 22
... thing ; I should think I might see that vessel through it . I had hardly got it to my eye when some one touched me on the shoulder and said , deprecatingly- " I'll have to get you to give that to me , sir . If there's anything you'd ...
... thing ; I should think I might see that vessel through it . I had hardly got it to my eye when some one touched me on the shoulder and said , deprecatingly- " I'll have to get you to give that to me , sir . If there's anything you'd ...
Pagina 38
... thing to riding a dinner - table —there was ample support clear out to one's knee - joints . A pack of ragged Portuguese muleteers crowded around us , offering their beasts at half a dollar an hour - more rascality to the stranger , for ...
... thing to riding a dinner - table —there was ample support clear out to one's knee - joints . A pack of ragged Portuguese muleteers crowded around us , offering their beasts at half a dollar an hour - more rascality to the stranger , for ...
Pagina 42
... thing and a joyful , to see all the ship's family abroad once more , albeit the happiness that sat upon every countenance could only partly conceal the ravages which that long siege of storms had wrought there . But dull eyes soon ...
... thing and a joyful , to see all the ship's family abroad once more , albeit the happiness that sat upon every countenance could only partly conceal the ravages which that long siege of storms had wrought there . But dull eyes soon ...
Pagina 49
... thing . I tugged at it diligently , but it was discouraging work , She said : " Ah ! I see you are accustomed to wearing kid gloves -but some gentlemen are so awkward about putting them on . " It was the last compliment I had expected ...
... thing . I tugged at it diligently , but it was discouraging work , She said : " Ah ! I see you are accustomed to wearing kid gloves -but some gentlemen are so awkward about putting them on . " It was the last compliment I had expected ...
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Pagina 251 - 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 45 - 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 121 - There is a glorious city in the sea; The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing; and the salt seaweed Clings to the marble of her palaces. No track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates! The path lies o'er the sea, Invisible: and from the land we went, As to a floating city — steering in, And gliding up her streets, as in a dream, So smoothly, silently — by many a dome, Mosque-like, and many a stately portico, The statues ranged along an azure sky; By many a...
Pagina 217 - Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
Pagina 106 - LIFE IN LONDON : or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend, Corinthian Tom.
Pagina 12 - And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
Pagina 217 - For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing. Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars...
Pagina 12 - He said he was very thirsty, and asked his generous preserver to get him a cup of water. She brought him some milk, and he drank of it gratefully and lay down again, to forget in pleasant dreams his lost battle and his humbled pride. Presently when he was asleep she came softly in with a hammer and drove a hideous tent-pen down through his brain ! " For he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
Pagina 119 - A palace lifting to eternal summer Its marble walls from out a glossy bower Of coolest foliage musical with birds...