The Best American Tales ChosenT.Y. Crowell, 1907 - 350 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 31
... person could refuse to take this into the bargain ; nay , I have seen a certificate on the subject taken before a country justice , and signed with a cross , in the justice's own handwriting . The story , therefore , is beyond the ...
... person could refuse to take this into the bargain ; nay , I have seen a certificate on the subject taken before a country justice , and signed with a cross , in the justice's own handwriting . The story , therefore , is beyond the ...
الصفحة 39
... person . He was tall , but exceedingly lank , with narrow shoulders , long arms and legs , hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves , feet that might have served for shovels , and his whole frame most loosely hung together . His ...
... person . He was tall , but exceedingly lank , with narrow shoulders , long arms and legs , hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves , feet that might have served for shovels , and his whole frame most loosely hung together . His ...
الصفحة 43
... person- age , of vastly superior taste and accomplishments to the rough country swains , and , indeed , inferior in learn- ing only to the parson . His appearance , therefore , is apt to occasion some little stir at the tea - table of a ...
... person- age , of vastly superior taste and accomplishments to the rough country swains , and , indeed , inferior in learn- ing only to the parson . His appearance , therefore , is apt to occasion some little stir at the tea - table of a ...
الصفحة 57
... persons of idle urchins ; such as half - munched apples , popguns , whirligigs , fly - cages , and whole le- gions of rampant little paper game - cocks . Apparently there had been some appalling act of justice recently inflicted , for ...
... persons of idle urchins ; such as half - munched apples , popguns , whirligigs , fly - cages , and whole le- gions of rampant little paper game - cocks . Apparently there had been some appalling act of justice recently inflicted , for ...
الصفحة 65
... person . He was the admiration of all the negroes ; who , hav- ing gathered , of all ages and sizes , from the farm and the neighborhood , stood forming a pyramid of shining black faces at every door and window ; gazing with delight at ...
... person . He was the admiration of all the negroes ; who , hav- ing gathered , of all ages and sizes , from the farm and the neighborhood , stood forming a pyramid of shining black faces at every door and window ; gazing with delight at ...
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الصفحة 19 - On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes. It was a bright, sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft and breasting the pure mountain breeze. "Surely," thought Rip. "I have not slept here all night.
الصفحة 15 - Rip now felt a vague apprehension stealing over him ; he looked anxiously in the same direction, and perceived a strange figure slowly toiling up the rocks, and bending under the weight of something he carried on his back. He was surprised to see any human being in this lonely and unfrequented place, but supposing it to be some one of the neighborhood in need of his assistance, he hastened down to yield it On nearer approach he was still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance....
الصفحة 349 - But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
الصفحة 256 - There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime.
الصفحة 8 - ... about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory.
الصفحة 269 - Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow; (This, all this, was in the olden Time, long ago) And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, A winged odor went away.
الصفحة 72 - ... above all the other trees of the neighborhood, and formed a kind of landmark. Its limbs were gnarled, and fantastic, large enough to form trunks for ordinary trees, twisting down almost to the earth, and rising again into the air. It was connected with...
الصفحة 271 - But, in his disordered fancy, the idea had assumed a more daring character, and trespassed, under certain conditions, upon the kingdom of inorganization. I lack words to express the full extent, or the earnest abandon of his persuasion. The belief, however, was connected (as I have previously hinted) with the gray stones of the home of his forefathers.
الصفحة 109 - he murmured, addressing the Great Stone Face, "is not this man worthy to resemble thee?" The Face seemed to smile, but answered not a word. Now it happened that the poet, though he dwelt so far away, had not only heard of 'Ernest, but had meditated much upon his character, until he deemed nothing so desirable as to meet this man, whose untaught wisdom walked hand in hand with the noble simplicity of his life. One summer morning, therefore, he took passage by the railroad, and, in the decline of...
الصفحة 271 - Belphegor of Machiavelli; the Heaven and Hell of Swedenborg; the Subterranean Voyage of Nicholas Klimm by Holberg; the Chiromancy of Robert Flud, of Jean D'Indagine, and of De la Chambre; the Journey into the Blue Distance of Tieck; and the City of the Sun of Campanella.