Mark Twain's Library of HumorC. L. Webster, 1888 - 707 страници |
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... walked my purchase to the stable , and dismounted with a chastened spirit . " Well , dear , " said Mrs. Sparrowgrass , with a face beaming all over with smiles , " how did you like your horse ? " I re- plied that he was not quite so ...
... walked my purchase to the stable , and dismounted with a chastened spirit . " Well , dear , " said Mrs. Sparrowgrass , with a face beaming all over with smiles , " how did you like your horse ? " I re- plied that he was not quite so ...
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... walked back for exercise , and got the horse towed . Everybody I loaned him to always walked back ; they never could get enough exercise any other way . Still , I continued to loan him to anybody who was willing to borrow him , my idea ...
... walked back for exercise , and got the horse towed . Everybody I loaned him to always walked back ; they never could get enough exercise any other way . Still , I continued to loan him to anybody who was willing to borrow him , my idea ...
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... walked slowly away , leaving Pumpilion with a " new wrinkle . " Seraphina Serena , being both fiery and coquettish withal , Pum- pilion , under the direction of his preceptor , tried the " Mitts sys- tem of wooing , " and although it ...
... walked slowly away , leaving Pumpilion with a " new wrinkle . " Seraphina Serena , being both fiery and coquettish withal , Pum- pilion , under the direction of his preceptor , tried the " Mitts sys- tem of wooing , " and although it ...
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... walked , thus intimating that he couldn't help it , and that he didn't mean to try . For the same reason , he never buttoned his coat , and wore no straps to the feet of his trousers ; both of which seemed too energetically reso- lute ...
... walked , thus intimating that he couldn't help it , and that he didn't mean to try . For the same reason , he never buttoned his coat , and wore no straps to the feet of his trousers ; both of which seemed too energetically reso- lute ...
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... walked across the room , but I could see the tears start into his eyes , and mother sot down and had a hearty crying spell . This made me feel rather bad for a minute or two , and I almost had a mind to give it up ; and then again ...
... walked across the room , but I could see the tears start into his eyes , and mother sot down and had a hearty crying spell . This made me feel rather bad for a minute or two , and I almost had a mind to give it up ; and then again ...
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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.