Mark Twain's Library of HumorC. L. Webster, 1888 - 707 страници |
Между кориците на книгата
Резултати 1 - 5 от 80.
Страница 4
... don't stand to reason that a dog could make such a fight as he could under them circumstances if he hadn't no talent . It always makes me feel sorry when I think of that last fight of his'n , and the way it turned out . " Well , this ...
... don't stand to reason that a dog could make such a fight as he could under them circumstances if he hadn't no talent . It always makes me feel sorry when I think of that last fight of his'n , and the way it turned out . " Well , this ...
Страница 5
... don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog . ' " Maybe you don't , ' Smiley says . Maybe you understand frogs , and maybe you don't understand ' em ; THE JUMPING FROG . 5.
... don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog . ' " Maybe you don't , ' Smiley says . Maybe you understand frogs , and maybe you don't understand ' em ; THE JUMPING FROG . 5.
Страница 7
... don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog . ' - " Smiley he stood scratching his head and looking down at Dan'l a long time , and at last he says , ' I do wonder what in the nation that frog throw'd off for ...
... don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog . ' - " Smiley he stood scratching his head and looking down at Dan'l a long time , and at last he says , ' I do wonder what in the nation that frog throw'd off for ...
Страница 38
... don't understand . You may have Cream Cheese to dinner as much as you choose , but I will not have him in the pulpit of my church . " The same day , Mr. Cheese happened in about lunch - time , and I asked him if his eyes were really ...
... don't understand . You may have Cream Cheese to dinner as much as you choose , but I will not have him in the pulpit of my church . " The same day , Mr. Cheese happened in about lunch - time , and I asked him if his eyes were really ...
Страница 40
... don't lose a great deal , you know . It makes a variety , and we all see each other just the same , only we don't dance . I asked Mr. Cheese what he thought of balls , whether it was so very wicked to dance , and go to parties , if one ...
... don't lose a great deal , you know . It makes a variety , and we all see each other just the same , only we don't dance . I asked Mr. Cheese what he thought of balls , whether it was so very wicked to dance , and go to parties , if one ...
Други издания - Преглед на всички
Често срещани думи и фрази
agin ain't ARTEMUS WARD asked began Brer Fox Brer Rabbit calamus root called Captain cayote Colonel Grice dear dollars door eyes father feel feet feller folks give goin gone Governor Dorr Grand Vizier hand head heard heart Hodja horse hoss hour JOSH BILLINGS Josiah Kitty knew lady laugh looked MARK TWAIN Mimir mind Miss morning never night nothin once Pedrigo person Peterkin Phil Adams Potiphar pretty Pumpilion remark replied Rip Van Winkle round seemed sezee Shipwreck Clerk Simon smile soon sort stood story sure talk tell thar there's thet thing thought tion told took turned Uncle Uncle Ben Uncle Remus W. D. HOWELLS walked Washington woman word young
Популярни откъси
Страница 506 - Fifty-five! This morning the parson takes a drive. Now, small boys, get out of the way! Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay, Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay. "Huddup!" said the parson.— Off went they. The parson was working his Sunday's text,— Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the— Moses— was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n'-house on the hill.
Страница 158 - Nicholas Vedder?" There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin piping voice, "Nicholas Vedder! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the church-yard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
Страница 87 - Which is why I remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain.
Страница 357 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Страница 545 - In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew And saw the lion's shadow ere himself And ran dismay'd away. Lor. In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea banks and waft her love To come again to Carthage.
Страница 505 - He would build one shay to beat the taown 'n' the keounty 'n' all the kentry raoun' ; It should be so built that it couldn' break daown : " Fur," said the Deacon, " 't 's mighty plain Thut the weakes' place mus' stan' the strain ; 'n' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest T' make that place uz strong uz the rest.
Страница 98 - Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'Ith no one nigh to hender. A fireplace filled the room's one side With half a cord o' wood in — There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'.
Страница 89 - But the hands that were played By that heathen Chinee, And the points that he made, Were quite frightful to see, — Till at last he put down a right bower, Which the same Nye had dealt unto me. Then I looked up at Nye, And he gazed upon me ; And he rose with a sigh, And said, " Can this be? We are ruined by Chinese cheap labour," — And he went for that heathen Chinee.
Страница 151 - From even this strong-hold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his termagant wife, who would suddenly break in upon the tranquillity of the assemblage and call the members all to naught ; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who charged him outright with encouraging her husband in habits of idleness.
Страница 149 - Rip's sole domestic adherent was his dog Wolf, who was as much henpecked as his master ; for Dame Van Winkle regarded them as companions in idleness, and even looked upon Wolf with an evil eye, as the cause of his master's going so often astray.