Little StingsJ. W. Luce, 1907 - 161 pàgines |
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Pàgina 61
... cat's in the fire- anyway I smell a rat ! ' ' Where ! ' the King screamed , and promptly fainted dead away . During the subsequent efforts to revive him , and certain uncon- trovertible facts became evident to everyone present . ' Let ...
... cat's in the fire- anyway I smell a rat ! ' ' Where ! ' the King screamed , and promptly fainted dead away . During the subsequent efforts to revive him , and certain uncon- trovertible facts became evident to everyone present . ' Let ...
Pàgina 72
... cats and her habit of holding midnight receptions in her sleeping chamber . Concerning the cats , Talmud1 states that her progress through the palace was heralded by a chorus of mewing which drowned out the sound of her own singers ...
... cats and her habit of holding midnight receptions in her sleeping chamber . Concerning the cats , Talmud1 states that her progress through the palace was heralded by a chorus of mewing which drowned out the sound of her own singers ...
Pàgina 74
... cats . . . Such is the picture one conjures up in the vast high - ceilinged chamber , around the monumental black and crimson bed - a picture of transcendent splendor bathed in smaragdine radiance , mysterious and cool - during those ...
... cats . . . Such is the picture one conjures up in the vast high - ceilinged chamber , around the monumental black and crimson bed - a picture of transcendent splendor bathed in smaragdine radiance , mysterious and cool - during those ...
Pàgina 85
... cats.1 " Your time is up ! " Balkis warned him when the screen was lifted.2 " High time , as you might say , " he ... cat . " " Why ? " " Because the cat came back ! " Needless to say he did not disappear through the floor , the Queen ...
... cats.1 " Your time is up ! " Balkis warned him when the screen was lifted.2 " High time , as you might say , " he ... cat . " " Why ? " " Because the cat came back ! " Needless to say he did not disappear through the floor , the Queen ...
Pàgina 90
... cats and generally comporting himself like a gale of wind in a thimble , for the purpose of taking her driving with him.1 " Hey there , Balkis ! " he called to her . " How about a little joy - ride ? " ' Annals of Sheba , cylinder 7639 ...
... cats and generally comporting himself like a gale of wind in a thimble , for the purpose of taking her driving with him.1 " Hey there , Balkis ! " he called to her . " How about a little joy - ride ? " ' Annals of Sheba , cylinder 7639 ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 169 - Hope deferred maketh the heart sick : but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Pàgina 162 - There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; the spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings
Pàgina 163 - There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Pàgina 46 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I g-alloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; "Good speed!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ; "Speed!
Pàgina 172 - Every little bit, added to what you've got, makes just a little bit more.
Pàgina 171 - How much better is it to get wisdom than gold ? and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver?
Pàgina 46 - LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventyfive ; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, " If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light, One...
Pàgina 81 - I'm not quick that way, but of course, it takes all kinds of people to make a world and we can't all be brilliant.
Pàgina 161 - There is a grand temple which rests upon a single column, which column is encircled by twelve cities; every city has against its walls thirty flying buttresses, and each buttress has two women, one white and one black, that go round about it in turns. Say what that temple is called.