The Luck of Roaring Camp1903 |
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... usual moiety of pity , and nothing more . But with the natural , though illogical , instincts of his species , her boldness awakened in him something of that respect which all original natures pay unconsciously to one another in any ...
... usual moiety of pity , and nothing more . But with the natural , though illogical , instincts of his species , her boldness awakened in him something of that respect which all original natures pay unconsciously to one another in any ...
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... usual in such cases , the most audacious and self - pos- sessed were the lucky recipients of the hon- ors . The reader will imagine that in the present instance Mliss and Clytie were pre- eminent , and divided public attention : Mliss ...
... usual in such cases , the most audacious and self - pos- sessed were the lucky recipients of the hon- ors . The reader will imagine that in the present instance Mliss and Clytie were pre- eminent , and divided public attention : Mliss ...
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... usual Friday after- noon ramble was for once omitted , owing to the absence of his trustworthy guide . As he was putting away his books and prepar- ing to leave the schoolhouse , a small voice piped at his side , " Please , sir ! " The ...
... usual Friday after- noon ramble was for once omitted , owing to the absence of his trustworthy guide . As he was putting away his books and prepar- ing to leave the schoolhouse , a small voice piped at his side , " Please , sir ! " The ...
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Bret Harte. before he entered the bar - room . It contained the usual number of loungers , who stared at him as he entered . One of them looked at him so fixedly and with such a strange ex- pression that the master stopped and looked ...
Bret Harte. before he entered the bar - room . It contained the usual number of loungers , who stared at him as he entered . One of them looked at him so fixedly and with such a strange ex- pression that the master stopped and looked ...
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... usual percentage in favor of the dealer . A body of armed men accompanied the deported wickedness of Poker Flat to the outskirts of the settlement . Besides Mr. Oakhurst , who was known to be a coolly des- perate man , and for whose ...
... usual percentage in favor of the dealer . A body of armed men accompanied the deported wickedness of Poker Flat to the outskirts of the settlement . Besides Mr. Oakhurst , who was known to be a coolly des- perate man , and for whose ...
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ain't asked azalea Bill Masters Blazing Star boys Bret Harte cabin cañon cheek child Clytemnestra Clytie Culpepper Dick Bullen ditches door Duchess excitement expressman extempo eyes face feet figure fire Five Forks Fool gathered grave hair hand Hawkins head heart hill Jack Folinsbee Johnny Jovita Judge Kentuck knew lady laugh Logport looked Luck master McSnagley ment Miggles Miggles's Miss Mary Miss Nelly Miss Portfire Mliss morning Morpher Mother Shipton never night Oakhurst opened passed pause perhaps pines Piney Poker Flat Princess quietly Rattlesnake Creek Red Gulch Red Mountain REDWOOD CAMP road Roaring Camp rose Sandy Bar seemed silence Simpson's Bar slowly Smith's Pocket stood stopped STORIES Stumpy suddenly suthin Tennessee Tennessee's Partner thar Thet's thing tion took trail tree turned Uncle Billy voice walked woman young Yuba Bill
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الصفحة 92 - during that evening. Haply the time was beguiled by an accordion, produced somewhat ostentatiously by Tom Simson from his pack. Notwithstanding some difficulties attending the manipulation of this instrument, Piney Woods managed to pluck several reluctant melodies from its keys, to an accompaniment by the Innocent on a pair of bone
الصفحة 29 - It needed but a glance to show them Kentuck lying there cruelly crushed and bruised, but still holding The Luck of Roaring Camp in his arms. As they bent over the strangely assorted pair they saw that the child was cold and pulseless. " He is dead,
الصفحة 103 - whereat we all laughed. While we were laughing, the driver cried " Shoo ! " We listened. To our infinite amazement the chorus of " Miggles " was repeated from the other side of the wall, even to the final and supplemental " Maygells." " Extraordinary echo," said the Judge. " Extraordinary d—d skunk!" roared the driver, contemptuously. " Come out of that, Higgles, and show yourself! Be a man,
الصفحة 38 - good-night." The moon shone brightly on the narrow path before them. He stood and watched the bent little figure as it staggered down the road, and waited until it had passed the little graveyard and reached the curve of the hill, where it turned and stood for a moment, a mere atom of suffering,
الصفحة 89 - tethered; they were no longer there. The tracks were already rapidly disappearing in the snow. The momentary excitement brought Mr. Oakhurst back to the fire with his usual calm. He did not waken the sleepers. The Innocent slumbered peacefully, with a smile on
الصفحة 73 - with you about adopting your profession. Is that so?" The man with the glazed hat leaned over the table, and made an imaginary shot, that sent the ball spinning round the cushions. Then walking round the table he recovered the ball and placed it upon the spot. This duty discharged, getting ready for another shot, he said,
الصفحة 71 - And off trotted the shortlegged Aristides. The Arcade was just across the way, — a long, rambling building containing a barroom, billiard-room, and restaurant. As the young man crossed the plaza he noticed that two or three of the passers-by turned and looked after him. He looked at his clothes, took
الصفحة 120 - the sweet old story, bathed the feet of him she loved. It even lent a kindly poetry to the rugged outline of Yuba Bill, half reclining on his elbow between them and his passengers, with savagely patient eyes
الصفحة 209 - and delicate-faced women in the one long street of Five Forks, and a scampering of mules, and an occasional procession of dusty brown-linen cavalry. A year after " Hawkins' Idiot Asylum" was completed, one day there drifted into the valley a riotous cavalcade of "schoolmarms," teachers of the San Francisco public schools, out for a holiday. Not
الصفحة 73 - when he began to speak something kept rising in his throat and retarded his utterance, and his own voice frightened him, it sounded so distant, low, and resonant. " I understand," he began, " that Melissa Smith, an orphan, and one of my scholars,