The Writings of Mark TwainHarper, 1911 |
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Pagina 27
... stone into the water , and the myriad of tiny bub- bles that are created flash out a brilliant glare like blue theatrical fires . Dip an oar , and its blade turns to splendid frosted silver , tinted with blue . Let a man jump in , and ...
... stone into the water , and the myriad of tiny bub- bles that are created flash out a brilliant glare like blue theatrical fires . Dip an oar , and its blade turns to splendid frosted silver , tinted with blue . Let a man jump in , and ...
Pagina 30
Mark Twain. 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 rest a ...
Mark Twain. 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 rest a ...
Pagina 31
... stone of many colors . No fire was visible anywhere , but gusts of sulphurous steam issued silently and in- visibly from a thousand little cracks and fissures in the crater , and were wafted to our noses with every breeze . But so long ...
... stone of many colors . No fire was visible anywhere , but gusts of sulphurous steam issued silently and in- visibly from a thousand little cracks and fissures in the crater , and were wafted to our noses with every breeze . But so long ...
Pagina 36
... stones ; their pictures , eighteen or nineteen centuries old , are often much more pleasing than the celebrated rubbish of the old masters of three centuries ago . They were well up in art . From the creation of these works of the first ...
... stones ; their pictures , eighteen or nineteen centuries old , are often much more pleasing than the celebrated rubbish of the old masters of three centuries ago . They were well up in art . From the creation of these works of the first ...
Pagina 38
... stone benches in the dress - circle , and looked at the place for the orchestra , and the ruined stage , and around at the wide sweep of empty boxes , and thought to myself , " This house won't pay . " I tried to imagine the music in ...
... stone benches in the dress - circle , and looked at the place for the orchestra , and the ruined stage , and around at the wide sweep of empty boxes , and thought to myself , " This house won't pay . " I tried to imagine the music in ...
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