The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1901 - 254 pages |
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Page 6
... seen those brick - and - mortar knaves at their process of destruction , at the plucking of every pannel I should have felt the varlets at my heart . I should have cried out to them to spare a plank at least out of the cheerful store ...
... seen those brick - and - mortar knaves at their process of destruction , at the plucking of every pannel I should have felt the varlets at my heart . I should have cried out to them to spare a plank at least out of the cheerful store ...
Page 17
... seen him before . " Every one speculateth upon his condition ; and the most . part take him to be — a tide waiter . He calleth you by your Christian name , to imply that his other is the same with your own . He is too familiar by half ...
... seen him before . " Every one speculateth upon his condition ; and the most . part take him to be — a tide waiter . He calleth you by your Christian name , to imply that his other is the same with your own . He is too familiar by half ...
Page 50
... seen upon Snow - hill ( as yet Skinner's - street was not ) , between the hours of ten and eleven in the morning , studying a volume of Lardner . I own this to have been a strain of abstraction beyond my reach . I used to admire how he ...
... seen upon Snow - hill ( as yet Skinner's - street was not ) , between the hours of ten and eleven in the morning , studying a volume of Lardner . I own this to have been a strain of abstraction beyond my reach . I used to admire how he ...
Page 53
... ago for a brief week at Margate . That was our first sea - side ex- periment , and many circumstances combined to make it the most agreeable holyday of my life . We had neither of us seen the sea , and we had never. 53 THE OLD MARGATE HOY.
... ago for a brief week at Margate . That was our first sea - side ex- periment , and many circumstances combined to make it the most agreeable holyday of my life . We had neither of us seen the sea , and we had never. 53 THE OLD MARGATE HOY.
Page 57
... seen a phoenix ; and he obligingly undeceived us of the vulgar error , that there is but one of that species at a time , assuring us that they were not uncommon in some parts of Upper Egypt . Hitherto he had found the most im- plicit ...
... seen a phoenix ; and he obligingly undeceived us of the vulgar error , that there is but one of that species at a time , assuring us that they were not uncommon in some parts of Upper Egypt . Hitherto he had found the most im- plicit ...
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