The Writings of Mark TwainHarper, 1911 |
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Pagina 36
... 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 36 The Innocents Abroad.
... 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 36 The Innocents Abroad.
Pagina 39
... 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 moment . To see our comrades , we had to look very nearly straight up ...
... 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 moment . To see our comrades , we had to look very nearly straight up ...
Pagina 41
... 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 46
... from the exhumed cities of Herculaneum and Pom- peii , and also the finest cameos and the most deli- cate engravings on precious stones ; their pictures , - ― eighteen or nineteen centuries old , are often 46 The Innocents Abroad.
... from the exhumed cities of Herculaneum and Pom- peii , and also the finest cameos and the most deli- cate engravings on precious stones ; their pictures , - ― eighteen or nineteen centuries old , are often 46 The Innocents Abroad.
Pagina 48
... 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 full ...
... 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 full ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 177 - 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 141 - 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 306 - 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 315 - 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 158 - 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 236 - 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 313 - 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 234 - 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.
Pagina 306 - And he came and touched the bier, (and they that bare him stood still,) and he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise. And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak : and he delivered him to his mother.