The Short-storyAllyn and Bacon, 1916 - 238 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 147
... though still calm as in life , beneath the snow lay he who was at once the strongest and yet the weakest of the outcasts of Poker Flat . THE SIRE DE MALÉTROIT'S DOOR Denis de Beaulieu was not The Outcasts of Poker Flat 147.
... though still calm as in life , beneath the snow lay he who was at once the strongest and yet the weakest of the outcasts of Poker Flat . THE SIRE DE MALÉTROIT'S DOOR Denis de Beaulieu was not The Outcasts of Poker Flat 147.
الصفحة 147
... Denis was there on safe - conduct , his safe - conduct was like to serve him little on a chance encounter . It was September , 1429 ; the weather had fallen sharp ; a flighty piping wind , laden with showers , beat about the township ...
... Denis was there on safe - conduct , his safe - conduct was like to serve him little on a chance encounter . It was September , 1429 ; the weather had fallen sharp ; a flighty piping wind , laden with showers , beat about the township ...
الصفحة 149
... Denis de Beaulieu walked fast and was soon knocking at his friend's door ; but though he promised himself to stay only a little while and make an early return , his welcome was so pleasant , and he found so much to delay him , that it ...
... Denis de Beaulieu walked fast and was soon knocking at his friend's door ; but though he promised himself to stay only a little while and make an early return , his welcome was so pleasant , and he found so much to delay him , that it ...
الصفحة 150
... Denis looked down , and could discern a few tree - tops wav- ing and a single speck of brightness where the river ran across a weir . The weather was clearing up , and the sky had lightened , so as to show the outline of the heavier ...
... Denis looked down , and could discern a few tree - tops wav- ing and a single speck of brightness where the river ran across a weir . The weather was clearing up , and the sky had lightened , so as to show the outline of the heavier ...
الصفحة 151
... Denis assured himself that they had all been making free with the wine bowl , and were in no mood to be particular about safe - con- ducts or the niceties of chivalrous war . It was as like as not that they would kill him like a dog and ...
... Denis assured himself that they had all been making free with the wine bowl , and were in no mood to be particular about safe - con- ducts or the niceties of chivalrous war . It was as like as not that they would kill him like a dog and ...
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الصفحة 13 - ... roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half-starved dog that looked like Wolf was skulking about it. Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed — "My very dog...
الصفحة 233 - 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 18 - Rip Van Winkle now! Does nobody know poor Rip Van Winkle?" All stood amazed, until an old woman, tottering out from among the crowd, put her hand to her brow, and peering under it in his face for a moment, exclaimed, "Sure enough it is Rip Van Winkle — it is himself! Welcome home again, old neighbour — Why, where have you been these twenty long years?
الصفحة 13 - It was with some difficulty that he found the way to his own house, which he approached with silent awe, expecting every moment to hear the shrill voice of Dame Van Winkle. He found the house gone to decay, the roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half -starved dog that looked like Wolf was skulking about it.
الصفحة 78 - I wouldn't mind giving my individual check for fifty thousand francs to any one who could obtain me that letter. The fact is, it is becoming of more and more importance every day; and the reward has been lately doubled. If it were trebled, however, I could do no more than I have done...
الصفحة 190 - ... listening to the man's last words: and when I looked into that face, which had been set as a flint against mercy, I found it smiling with hope." "And do you, then, suppose me such a creature?
الصفحة 16 - Nicholas Vedder?" There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin piping voice, "Nicholas Vedder? why he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
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 71 - And what, after all, is the matter on hand?" I asked. "Why, I will tell you," replied the Prefect, as he gave a long, steady, and contemplative puff, and settled himself in his chair. "I will tell you...
الصفحة 112 - He had devoted himself, however, too unreservedly to scientific studies ever to be weaned from them by any second passion. His love for his young wife might prove the stronger of the two; but it could only be by intertwining itself with his love of science, and uniting the strength of the latter to his own.