Mark Twain's Library of HumorC. L. Webster, 1888 - 707 страници |
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... pretty near up to his chin - and set him on the floor . Smiley he went to the swamp and slopped around in the mud for a long time , and finally he ketched a frog , and fetched him in , and give him to this feller , and says : " Now , if ...
... pretty near up to his chin - and set him on the floor . Smiley he went to the swamp and slopped around in the mud for a long time , and finally he ketched a frog , and fetched him in , and give him to this feller , and says : " Now , if ...
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... pretty region if it were not so flat ; if the margins of the lakes had not been flooded by dams at the outlets - which have killed the trees , and left a rim of ghastly dead - wood like the swamps of the under - world pictured by Doré's ...
... pretty region if it were not so flat ; if the margins of the lakes had not been flooded by dams at the outlets - which have killed the trees , and left a rim of ghastly dead - wood like the swamps of the under - world pictured by Doré's ...
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... pretty hat I saw at Lawson's . Well , now , it's really quite pretty ; Lawson has some taste left yet ; what a lovely sermon the Doctor gave us . By - the - by , did you know that Mrs. Gnu has actually bought the blue velvet ? It's too ...
... pretty hat I saw at Lawson's . Well , now , it's really quite pretty ; Lawson has some taste left yet ; what a lovely sermon the Doctor gave us . By - the - by , did you know that Mrs. Gnu has actually bought the blue velvet ? It's too ...
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... pretty often , quite helped me through : it was , " Dear Mrs. Potiphar ; " you can't tell how nicely he says it . He began by telling me that it was very im- portant to consider all the details and little things about the church . He ...
... pretty often , quite helped me through : it was , " Dear Mrs. Potiphar ; " you can't tell how nicely he says it . He began by telling me that it was very im- portant to consider all the details and little things about the church . He ...
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... pretty religion , too ! For he is not only well - dressed , and has such aris- tocratic hands and feet , in the parlor , but he is so perfectly gentlemanly in the pulpit . He never raises his voice too loud , and he has such wavy ...
... pretty religion , too ! For he is not only well - dressed , and has such aris- tocratic hands and feet , in the parlor , but he is so perfectly gentlemanly in the pulpit . He never raises his voice too loud , and he has such wavy ...
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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.