The Californian, Volume 3Charles Frederick Holder Californian Publishing Company, 1893 |
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... face was capable of quick and varying expression , there is no doubt , both the eyes and mouth being very changeable and full of expression , which could alter with the quickness of his temper . M. P. F. M. P. F. Tissot , a member of ...
... face was capable of quick and varying expression , there is no doubt , both the eyes and mouth being very changeable and full of expression , which could alter with the quickness of his temper . M. P. F. M. P. F. Tissot , a member of ...
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... face was in repose , and which as is well known were not present when in action or animated , at which times the expressions were everything the re- verse of indecision or anxiety . As is mentioned in another part of this paper ...
... face was in repose , and which as is well known were not present when in action or animated , at which times the expressions were everything the re- verse of indecision or anxiety . As is mentioned in another part of this paper ...
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... face a look of such utter agony , that he rose impulsively and sat beside him upon the little table , putting his arm around his neck and laying a hand upon his shoulder , recalling to both those far - off but well - remembered days in ...
... face a look of such utter agony , that he rose impulsively and sat beside him upon the little table , putting his arm around his neck and laying a hand upon his shoulder , recalling to both those far - off but well - remembered days in ...
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... face the sternness of a determined purpose , and in one clenched hand the drug he had promised to leave alone . So like Harold Vlance . Un- trustable , self - torturing , desperate to the end ! The colonel's heart con- tracted with a ...
... face the sternness of a determined purpose , and in one clenched hand the drug he had promised to leave alone . So like Harold Vlance . Un- trustable , self - torturing , desperate to the end ! The colonel's heart con- tracted with a ...
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... face . There is a wonderful grace about his form , his serene face is inexpress- ibly sweet ; his voice is as heaven's own music ; the words that drop from his lips are liquid pearls ; they impress his hearers with a feeling that is a ...
... face . There is a wonderful grace about his form , his serene face is inexpress- ibly sweet ; his voice is as heaven's own music ; the words that drop from his lips are liquid pearls ; they impress his hearers with a feeling that is a ...
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Popular passages
Page 41 - For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram : once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
Page 556 - Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring, Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love.
Page 558 - The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Page 160 - No more shall the war-cry sever, Or the winding rivers be red: They banish our anger forever When they laurel the graves of our dead! Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the Judgment Day: — Love and tears for the Blue; Tears and love for the Gray.
Page 559 - Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more modest than immodest.
Page 243 - No discrimination in charges or facilities for transportation shall be made by any railroad or other transportation company between places or persons, or in the facilities for the transportation of the same classes of freight or passengers within this State, or coming from or going to any other State.
Page 559 - Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems. You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books...
Page 192 - Come from the woods that belt the gray hill-side, The seven elms, the poplars four That stand beside my father's door, And chiefly from the brook that loves To purl o'er matted cress and ribbed sand, Or dimple in the dark of rushy coves, Drawing into his narrow earthen urn, In every elbow and turn, The filter'd tribute of the rough woodland.
Page 201 - By the island in the river Flowing down to Camelot. Four gray walls, and four gray towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
Page 62 - But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.