Little StingsJ. W. Luce, 1907 - 161 pàgines |
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Pàgina 147
... mind to marry her , and said SO . " Alas , I do not know you , sir ! " pouted she . " Really ? Well , my name is Romeo , and I have a comfortable pub- lishing business , and- " " But she screamed and fled , for she was the daughter of a ...
... mind to marry her , and said SO . " Alas , I do not know you , sir ! " pouted she . " Really ? Well , my name is Romeo , and I have a comfortable pub- lishing business , and- " " But she screamed and fled , for she was the daughter of a ...
Pàgina v
... mind at once such authoritative works as Professor Hornblower's The Enigma of Sheba , with its masterly discussions based on contempo- rary sources , in which he conclusively disposes of the distorted reports touching upon the Queen's ...
... mind at once such authoritative works as Professor Hornblower's The Enigma of Sheba , with its masterly discussions based on contempo- rary sources , in which he conclusively disposes of the distorted reports touching upon the Queen's ...
Pàgina 6
... mind among their neighbors , the while they them- selves were rapidly expanding their new - found commercial empire , over which it was their proud boast that the shades of night never fell . 3 To the north and west , in Ma'in , the ...
... mind among their neighbors , the while they them- selves were rapidly expanding their new - found commercial empire , over which it was their proud boast that the shades of night never fell . 3 To the north and west , in Ma'in , the ...
Pàgina 19
... minds of his ministers . Jehaz , fully aware of his own fatal proclivities , readily agreed to this arrangement , and decreed , moreover , that Anabasis should accompany the royal infants . And then he took up Shimhi . 8 This Shimhi ...
... minds of his ministers . Jehaz , fully aware of his own fatal proclivities , readily agreed to this arrangement , and decreed , moreover , that Anabasis should accompany the royal infants . And then he took up Shimhi . 8 This Shimhi ...
Pàgina 29
... mind or the child is proof of that ; and , while in the company of her other governesses and teachers Balkis was forever giving way to tantrums and miffs - often ' Annals of Sheba , cylinder 5016 . putting their eyes out with her thumbs ...
... mind or the child is proof of that ; and , while in the company of her other governesses and teachers Balkis was forever giving way to tantrums and miffs - often ' Annals of Sheba , cylinder 5016 . putting their eyes out with her thumbs ...
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Abishai Ahishar Annals of Sheba Balkis beautiful Benaiah buttons camels cats chronicle Colossus course Court of Sheba Court Physician cried cylinder Diaries emeralds Eminent Shebans Emperor of Kush entirely exclaimed Expurgated by order Ezion fact famous G. P. Putnam's Sons Gaston Poteau Gate gold Gorton hair hand Hanno the Elder Hebron Hebron Papyrus Heimweh Heralds Hiram Hornblower Hoshea ICHNEUMON ivory Jehaz Jerusalem jeweled journey King King's laugh laughter LITTLE STINGS Lord Ma'in Magog Maini Marib matters ment merry Ministers Mirrors of Marib monarch never night occasion Ophel palace person PILAFF Pilaster poet Porch Poteau Prince PSHA QUEEN OF SHEBA question quoth reign remarked replied royal Salhin scribes seems Shenanikin Shimhi Shush Solomon Sophonisba stairs Steinkopf tablet Talmud Tee hee thing thousand throne Transom turn Tyre Whereupon wives woman
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.