The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Stories: Including Earlier Papers, Spanish and American Legends, Tales of the Argonauts, EtcHoughton, Mifflin, 1882 - 395 من الصفحات |
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... traveller might have found some compen- sation for his disappointment in the weird aspect of that vicinity . There were huge fissures on the hill - side , and displacements of the red soil , resembling more the chaos MLISS.
... traveller might have found some compen- sation for his disappointment in the weird aspect of that vicinity . There were huge fissures on the hill - side , and displacements of the red soil , resembling more the chaos MLISS.
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... hill , where it turned and stood for a moment , a mere atom of suffering outlined against the far - off patient stars . Then he went back to his work . But the lines of the copy- book thereafter faded into long parallels of never ...
... hill , where it turned and stood for a moment , a mere atom of suffering outlined against the far - off patient stars . Then he went back to his work . But the lines of the copy- book thereafter faded into long parallels of never ...
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... hill- side and splashed into the stream , a heavy wind seemed to surge the branches of the funereal pines , and then the silence seemed to fall thicker , heavier , and deadlier . The master turned towards Mliss with an unconscious ...
... hill- side and splashed into the stream , a heavy wind seemed to surge the branches of the funereal pines , and then the silence seemed to fall thicker , heavier , and deadlier . The master turned towards Mliss with an unconscious ...
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... hills and illuminated the trail that led to the schoolhouse , beaten quite hard with the coming and going of little feet . Then , more satisfied in mind , he tore the missive into fragments and scattered them along the road . At sunrise ...
... hills and illuminated the trail that led to the schoolhouse , beaten quite hard with the coming and going of little feet . Then , more satisfied in mind , he tore the missive into fragments and scattered them along the road . At sunrise ...
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... hills came back as in daylight , but little softened in the dry , cold , dewless air of a California summer night . I was wondering how late it was , and thinking that if the horses of the night travelled as slowly as the team before us ...
... hills came back as in daylight , but little softened in the dry , cold , dewless air of a California summer night . I was wondering how late it was , and thinking that if the horses of the night travelled as slowly as the team before us ...
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الصفحة 118 - em to the child," she said, pointing to the sleeping Piney. "You've starved yourself," said the gambler. "That's what they call it," said the woman querulously, as she lay down again, and turning her face to the wall, passed quietly away. The accordion and the bones were put aside that day, and Homer was forgotten. When the body of Mother Shipton had been committed to the snow, Mr. Oakhurst took the Innocent aside, and showed him a pair of snowshoes, which he had fashioned from the old pack-saddle....
الصفحة 145 - Tennessee has been running free, and we brings him home from his wandering." He paused, and picked up a fragment of quartz, rubbed it thoughtfully on his sleeve, and went on: "It ain't the first time that I've packed him on my back, as you see'd me now.
الصفحة 109 - with malevolence, and Uncle Billy included the whole party in one sweeping anathema. The road to Sandy Bar — a camp that, not having as yet experienced the regenerating influences of Poker Flat, consequently seemed to offer some invitation to the emigrants — lay over a steep mountain range. It was distant a day's severe travel.
الصفحة 119 - ... had quietly piled beside the hut enough fuel to last a few days longer. The tears rose to her eyes, but she hid them from Piney. The women slept but little. In the morning, looking into each other's faces, they read their fate. Neither spoke ; but Piney, accepting the position of the stronger, drew near and placed her arm around the Duchess's waist. They kept this attitude for the rest of the day. That night the storm reached its greatest fury, and, rending asunder the protecting pines, invaded...
الصفحة 101 - ... begun to regard all garments as a second cuticle, which like a snake's only sloughed off through decay — to be debarred this privilege from certain prudential reasons. Yet such was the subtle influence of innovation that he thereafter appeared regularly every afternoon in a clean shirt, and face still shining from his ablutions. Nor were moral and social sanitary laws neglected. "Tommy...
الصفحة 117 - Ash-heels," as the Innocent persisted in denominating the " swift-footed Achilles." So with small food and much of Homer and the accordion, a week passed over the heads of the outcasts. The sun again forsook them, and again from leaden skies the snow-flakes were sifted over the land. Day by day closer around them drew the snowy circle, until at last they looked from their prison over drifted walls of dazzling white, that towered twenty feet above their heads. It became more and more difficult to...
الصفحة 112 - ... vain. He even pointed out the fact that there was no provision, nor means of making a camp. But, unluckily, the Innocent met this objection by assuring the party that he was provided with an extra mule loaded with provisions, and by the discovery of a rude attempt at a log house near the trail. " Piney can stay with Mrs. Oakhurst," said the Innocent, pointing to the Duchess, "and I can shift for myself.
الصفحة 113 - ... was set apart for the ladies. As the lovers parted, they unaffectedly exchanged a kiss, so honest and sincere that it might have been heard above the swaying pines. The frail Duchess and the malevolent Mother Shipton were probably too stunned to remark upon this last evidence of simplicity, and so turned without a word to the hut. The fire was replenished, the men lay down before the door, and in a few minutes were asleep. Mr. Oakhurst was a light sleeper. Toward morning he awoke benumbed and...
الصفحة 111 - Mr. Oakhurst remember Piney ? She that used to wait on the table at the Temperance House? They had been engaged a long time, but old Jake Woods had objected, and so they had run away, and were going to Poker Flat to be married, and here they were. And they were tired out, and how lucky it was they had found a place to camp, and company. All this the Innocent delivered rapidly, while Piney, a stout, comely damsel of fifteen, emerged from behind the pine-tree where she had been blushing unseen, and...
الصفحة 144 - ... his hat and slowly mopped his face with his handkerchief. This the crowd felt was a preliminary to speech, and they disposed themselves variously on stumps and boulders, and sat expectant. "When a man," began Tennessee's Partner slowly, "has been running free all day, what's the natural thing for him to do?