East by West: A Journey in the Recess, Volume 1R. Bentley and son, 1885 - 303 pages |
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... seemed pretty well for a chance flying visit ; but there was a discontented tone in the young man's voice and a look in his face that indicated a suspicion there was some- thing he had omitted . I gathered from wide conversation among ...
... seemed pretty well for a chance flying visit ; but there was a discontented tone in the young man's voice and a look in his face that indicated a suspicion there was some- thing he had omitted . I gathered from wide conversation among ...
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... seemed very clear . I had hired a horse with four shoes . We had started with four shoes , and we arrived with three , a saving to the pro- prietor of twenty - five per cent . , in which the fare had a right to participate . But it was ...
... seemed very clear . I had hired a horse with four shoes . We had started with four shoes , and we arrived with three , a saving to the pro- prietor of twenty - five per cent . , in which the fare had a right to participate . But it was ...
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... seemed the most soul- depressing creature that ever strutted the stage . The boxes at the Zoo were fairly filled , a moiety of the occupants being harlots , painted , noisy , and in all ways loveless . These women have their claim upon ...
... seemed the most soul- depressing creature that ever strutted the stage . The boxes at the Zoo were fairly filled , a moiety of the occupants being harlots , painted , noisy , and in all ways loveless . These women have their claim upon ...
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... seemed possible . Born of a well - known Massachusetts family he had been a gambler , miner , billiard- marker , and some other things not so reput- able . Having won and lost several fortunes at cards , he had arrived at the conclusion ...
... seemed possible . Born of a well - known Massachusetts family he had been a gambler , miner , billiard- marker , and some other things not so reput- able . Having won and lost several fortunes at cards , he had arrived at the conclusion ...
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... seemed that life could scarcely be worth living . But Pontarlier is not a patch on Ogden , where the waiting - room at the railway station is crowded with clocks , giving the various times upon which divers trains will run . It would ...
... seemed that life could scarcely be worth living . But Pontarlier is not a patch on Ogden , where the waiting - room at the railway station is crowded with clocks , giving the various times upon which divers trains will run . It would ...
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Page 149 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war...
Page 149 - Eating the Lotos day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender curving lines of creamy spray; To lend our hearts and spirits wholly To the influence of mild-minded melancholy; To muse and brood and live again in memory, With those old faces of our infancy Heap'd over with a mound of grass, Two handfuls of white dust, shut in an urn of brass...
Page 7 - Church. was thought heere, that the world was made for man, and not man for the world, and that therefore they take a crosse course that lye downe there.
Page 117 - Treasury is concerned, would be like taking money out of one pocket and putting it in the other.
Page 17 - Bridge, which is worth a journey across the Atlantic to see. Looked at from a distance, whether near or far, it seems to span the broad river with gossamer web. Yet an army might march across it, or the population of a small town might live upon it without fear of the yawning gulf below. CHAPTEE III. SOME WESTERN TOWNS. " WHEN I said I would die a bachelor I never thought I would live to be married," says Benedick, when reminded of earlier perversity.
Page 54 - Lord Rosebery, who was one of them, explains this phenomena on the ground that Denver, conscious of a shady record in the past, really likes to be bored in this way, under the impression that respectable people are always bored, and that, being bored, a Denver audience is respectable. At Castle...
Page 57 - October," read one complaint, "it occasionally becomes clear that summer is over and gone, and the time for the lighting of stoves is come. They are lit accordingly, without strict regard to the temperature outside, and as there seems to be no borderland between having the pipes cold or nearly red hot, the sensation on entering one of the cars from the fresh air is akin to what might be experienced on walking into an oven. But the Americans like it, especially the women, and attempts made by foreigners...
Page 48 - Because of its rapid growth, it was referred to as one of the "magic cities of the West," but even more magical to those used to the comforts of civilization was the advanced cultural condition of the...
Page 14 - Yorker, realized in the case of Mr. Vanderbilt, is to live in a brown stone-fronted house...