The Strange Story BookLongmans, Green, and Company, 1913 - 312 pàgines |
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Pàgina 54 - ... 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!
Pàgina 40 - in the spring a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of love.
Pàgina 280 - Not until the second half of the fifteenth century and the first half of the sixteenth was research done into metals and their qualities, which investigations had a profound effect upon metal production.
Pàgina 119 - Metcalf was called in, and his late companion, yet trembling with agitation, exclaimed, " Had I known your condition, sir, I would not have ventured with you for a hundred pounds...
Pàgina 254 - Elizabeth to bed, and giving her something to eat or drink ; instead they plied her with questions as to where she had been and what she had been doing, and how she had got in that dreadful condition.
Pàgina 53 - 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.
Pàgina 102 - J put half a sheet 01 paper upon the floor, with a pen and ink-horn : he threw off his shoes as he sat, took the ink-horn in the toes of his left foot, and held the pen in those of his right. He then wrote three lines, as well as most ordinary writers, and as swiftly. He writes out all his own bills, and other accounts.
Pàgina 103 - ... catch it when nobody else can. He then examines it, and applies a remedy to it. He is so strong in his teeth, that he can lift ten pecks of beans with them. He can throw a great sledge-hammer as far with his feet as other men can with their hands.
Pàgina 103 - The last summer he made all his own hay-ricks. He can do all the business of the hay-field (except mowing), as fast and as well, with only his feet, as others can with rakes and forks. He goes to the field and catches his horse ; he saddles and bridles him with his feet and toes. If he has a sheep among his flock that ails...
Pàgina 103 - He feeds himself, and can bring both his meat and his broth to his mouth, by holding the fork or spoon in his toes. He cleans his own shoes ; can clean the knives, light the fire, and do almost every other domestic business as well as any other man. He can make his hen coops.