Mark Twain's Library of HumorC. L. Webster, 1888 - 707 Seiten |
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... gave his first lecture . His earliest book , " The Innocents Abroad , " was the result of his experience and observation as a passenger on the Quaker City in her famous cruise to the Holy Land . His succeeding books continue the story ...
... gave his first lecture . His earliest book , " The Innocents Abroad , " was the result of his experience and observation as a passenger on the Quaker City in her famous cruise to the Holy Land . His succeeding books continue the story ...
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... gave me good day . I told him a friend of mine had commissioned me to make some inqui- ries about a cherished companion of his boyhood , named Leoni- das W. Smiley - Rev . Leonidas W. Smiley - a young minister of the gospel , who he had ...
... gave me good day . I told him a friend of mine had commissioned me to make some inqui- ries about a cherished companion of his boyhood , named Leoni- das W. Smiley - Rev . Leonidas W. Smiley - a young minister of the gospel , who he had ...
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... gave an excited jerk . The next instant I perceived the game , and did not need the unfeigned " dam " of Luke to convince me that I had snatched his felt hat from his head , and deposited it among the lilies . Discouraged by this , we ...
... gave an excited jerk . The next instant I perceived the game , and did not need the unfeigned " dam " of Luke to convince me that I had snatched his felt hat from his head , and deposited it among the lilies . Discouraged by this , we ...
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but the line was still fast . He did not run far . I gave him the butt again ; a thing he seemed to hate , even as a gift . In a moment the evil - minded fish , lashing the water in his rage , was coming back again , making straight for ...
but the line was still fast . He did not run far . I gave him the butt again ; a thing he seemed to hate , even as a gift . In a moment the evil - minded fish , lashing the water in his rage , was coming back again , making straight for ...
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... gave to that part of the town a picturesqueness very poorly atoned for by the conven- tional wooden stakes that have deposed them . These guns ( " old sogers , " the boys called them ) had their story , like everything else in ...
... gave to that part of the town a picturesqueness very poorly atoned for by the conven- tional wooden stakes that have deposed them . These guns ( " old sogers , " the boys called them ) had their story , like everything else in ...
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Seite 506 - Fifty-five! This morning the parson takes a drive. Now, small boys, get out of the way! Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay, Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay. "Huddup!" said the parson.— Off went they. The parson was working his Sunday's text,— Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the— Moses— was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n'-house on the hill.
Seite 158 - 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 church-yard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
Seite 87 - Which is why I remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain.
Seite 357 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Seite 545 - In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew And saw the lion's shadow ere himself And ran dismay'd away. Lor. In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea banks and waft her love To come again to Carthage.
Seite 505 - He would build one shay to beat the taown 'n' the keounty 'n' all the kentry raoun' ; It should be so built that it couldn' break daown : " Fur," said the Deacon, " 't 's mighty plain Thut the weakes' place mus' stan' the strain ; 'n' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest T' make that place uz strong uz the rest.
Seite 98 - Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'Ith no one nigh to hender. A fireplace filled the room's one side With half a cord o' wood in — There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'.
Seite 89 - But the hands that were played By that heathen Chinee, And the points that he made, Were quite frightful to see, — Till at last he put down a right bower, Which the same Nye had dealt unto me. Then I looked up at Nye, And he gazed upon me ; And he rose with a sigh, And said, " Can this be? We are ruined by Chinese cheap labour," — And he went for that heathen Chinee.
Seite 151 - From even this strong-hold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his termagant wife, who would suddenly break in upon the tranquillity of the assemblage and call the members all to naught ; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who charged him outright with encouraging her husband in habits of idleness.
Seite 149 - Rip's sole domestic adherent was his dog Wolf, who was as much henpecked as his master ; for Dame Van Winkle regarded them as companions in idleness, and even looked upon Wolf with an evil eye, as the cause of his master's going so often astray.