Taken Alive: And Other Stories : with an AutobiographyDodd, Mead,, 1889 - 375 pages |
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... close economy in order to give his sons a good education . The one act of my life which I remem- ber with unalloyed pride and pleasure occurred while I was at boarding - school in Vermont , preparing for college . I learned through my ...
... close economy in order to give his sons a good education . The one act of my life which I remem- ber with unalloyed pride and pleasure occurred while I was at boarding - school in Vermont , preparing for college . I learned through my ...
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... close of my first year in Williams College a mis- fortune occurred which threatened to be very serious . Study - ́ ing by defective light injured my eyes . They quickly became so sensitive that I could scarcely endure lamplight or the ...
... close of my first year in Williams College a mis- fortune occurred which threatened to be very serious . Study - ́ ing by defective light injured my eyes . They quickly became so sensitive that I could scarcely endure lamplight or the ...
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... close con- tact with all kinds of people ; there was no man in my regiment who hesitated to come to my tent or to talk confidentially by the camp - fire , while scores of dying men laid bare to me their hearts . I at least know the ...
... close con- tact with all kinds of people ; there was no man in my regiment who hesitated to come to my tent or to talk confidentially by the camp - fire , while scores of dying men laid bare to me their hearts . I at least know the ...
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... close friend , and that a sojourn at a summer hotel on the Hudson was in prospect . On his return home he con- ceives the idea of painting the girl's features and giving them a harmonious expression . Then the fancy takes him that the ...
... close friend , and that a sojourn at a summer hotel on the Hudson was in prospect . On his return home he con- ceives the idea of painting the girl's features and giving them a harmonious expression . Then the fancy takes him that the ...
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... close , fixed attention essential to the best use of words . Perhaps few are endowed with both the inventive and the critical faculty . A certain inner sense enables one to know , according to his lights , whether the story itself is ...
... close , fixed attention essential to the best use of words . Perhaps few are endowed with both the inventive and the critical faculty . A certain inner sense enables one to know , according to his lights , whether the story itself is ...
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