The Short-storyAllyn and Bacon, 1916 - 238 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xvi
... person as in Stevenson's Pavilion on the Links ; or in the third person as in Kip- ling's The Bridge Builders . Yet again it may be a conun- drum as Stockton's famous The Lady or the Tiger ? But besides the forms due to the manner of ...
... person as in Stevenson's Pavilion on the Links ; or in the third person as in Kip- ling's The Bridge Builders . Yet again it may be a conun- drum as Stockton's famous The Lady or the Tiger ? But besides the forms due to the manner of ...
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... person- age , Nicholas Vedder himself , sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago , who charged him outright with encouraging her husband in habits of idleness . Poor Rip was at last reduced almost to despair ; and his only ...
... person- age , Nicholas Vedder himself , sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago , who charged him outright with encouraging her husband in habits of idleness . Poor Rip was at last reduced almost to despair ; and his only ...
الصفحة 21
... 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 34
... person in whom we can confide . You are the only one we can trust . Whether we succeed or fail , the excitement which you now perceive in me will be equally allayed . " " I am anxious to oblige you in any way , " I replied ; " but do ...
... person in whom we can confide . You are the only one we can trust . Whether we succeed or fail , the excitement which you now perceive in me will be equally allayed . " " I am anxious to oblige you in any way , " I replied ; " but do ...
الصفحة 37
... person as circumstances would permit , prepared to ascend the tree . In youth , the tulip - tree , or Liriodendron Tulipiferum , the most magnificent of American foresters , has a trunk peculiarly smooth , and often rises to a great ...
... person as circumstances would permit , prepared to ascend the tree . In youth , the tulip - tree , or Liriodendron Tulipiferum , the most magnificent of American foresters , has a trunk peculiarly smooth , and often rises to a great ...
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30 cents appeared asked Aylmer beetle birthmark called character cheek Colonel concealed Coppy cried Dame Van Winkle dark dealer death's-head Denis door Duchess Dupin Edgar Allan Poe Edited Essay eyes face fear fell felt figure fire Georgiana girl governors hand Hawthorne head heard heart honor Joliffe Julius Cæsar Jupiter Jupiter's Kipling Legrand letter limb looked Malétroit Markheim massa matter mind Miss Allardyce Monsieur de Beaulieu Mother Shipton mountain Nathaniel Hawthorne never night Oakhurst observed old gentleman once paper parchment personage Piney Poems Poker Flat Prefect Price Province House replied returned Rip Van Winkle ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Rudyard Kipling scarabæus seemed seen short-story Sir William Sire skull smile spirit stood story strange Sullivan's Island tell thing thought tion took tree truth turned Uncle Billy village voice WASHINGTON IRVING Wee Willie Winkie wife words
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الصفحة 231 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
الصفحة 1 - ... about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory. At the foot of these fairy mountains...
الصفحة 16 - He doubted his own identity, and whether he was himself or another man. In the midst of his bewilderment the man in the cocked hat demanded who he was, and what was his name. "God knows...
الصفحة 91 - is a desperate man and a man of nerve. His hotel, too, is not without attendants devoted to his interests. Had I made the wild attempt you suggest I might never have left the Ministerial presence alive. The good people of Paris might have heard of me no more. But I had an object apart from these considerations.
الصفحة xii - A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents — he then combines such events that may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect.
الصفحة 8 - On nearer approach he was still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance. He was a short square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard.
الصفحة 76 - That, of course; and when we had absolutely completed every particle of the furniture in this way, then we examined the house itself. We divided its entire surface into compartments, which we numbered, so that none might be missed; then we scrutinized each individual square inch throughout the premises, including the two houses immediately adjoining, with the microscope, as before.
الصفحة 39 - Did you say it was a dead limb, Jupiter?" cried Legrand in a quivering voice. "Yes, massa; him dead as de door-nail; done up for sartain ; done departed dis here life." "What in the name of heaven shall I do?
الصفحة 135 - ... town of all improper persons. This was done permanently in regard of two men who were then hanging from the boughs of a sycamore in the gulch, and temporarily in the banishment of certain other objectionable characters. I regret to say that some of these were ladies. It is but due to the sex, however, to state that their impropriety was professional, and it was only in such easily established standards of evil that Poker Flat ventured to sit in judgment.
الصفحة 179 - ... was exceedingly faint, and showed dimly on the threshold of the shop. And yet, in that strip of doubtful brightness, did there not hang wavering a shadow? Suddenly, from the street outside, a very jovial gentleman began to beat with a staff on the shop-door, accompanying his blows with shouts and railleries in which the dealer was continually called upon by name. Markheim, smitten into ice, glanced at the dead man. But no ! he lay quite still ; he was fled away far beyond earshot of these blows...