The Writings of Mark Twain: see Old Catalog -. 23. The man that corrupted Hadleyburg and other essays and storiesAmerican Publishing Company, 1901 |
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Pagina 26
... minutes the church is crammed , then , and time must be allowed the collectors to get around : after that it liquefies a little quicker and a little quicker , every day , as the houses grow smaller , till on the eighth day , with only a ...
... minutes the church is crammed , then , and time must be allowed the collectors to get around : after that it liquefies a little quicker and a little quicker , every day , as the houses grow smaller , till on the eighth day , with only a ...
Pagina 37
... minute and a half a chicken instantly . As a general thing , strangers who crawl in there to sleep do not get up until they are called . And then they don't , either . The stranger that ventures to sleep there takes a permanent contract ...
... minute and a half a chicken instantly . As a general thing , strangers who crawl in there to sleep do not get up until they are called . And then they don't , either . The stranger that ventures to sleep there takes a permanent contract ...
Pagina 39
... minutes to six in the 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 ...
... minutes to six in the 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 ...
Pagina 41
... minutes . Instead of stalking down the rugged path we ascended , we chose one which was bedded . knee - deep in loose ashes , and plowed our way with prodigious strides that would almost have shamed the performance of The Innocents Abroad ...
... minutes . Instead of stalking down the rugged path we ascended , we chose one which was bedded . knee - deep in loose ashes , and plowed our way with prodigious strides that would almost have shamed the performance of The Innocents Abroad ...
Pagina 51
... minute of precious time would have saved him . I saw the skeletons of a man , a woman , and two young girls . The woman had her hands spread wide apart , as if in mortal terror , and I imagined I could still trace upon her shapeless ...
... minute of precious time would have saved him . I saw the skeletons of a man , a woman , and two young girls . The woman had her hands spread wide apart , as if in mortal terror , and I imagined I could still trace upon her shapeless ...
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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 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 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 238 - At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down : At her feet he bowed, he fell : Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
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.
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 69 - 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.