The Street of AdventureE. P. Dutton, 1910 - 437 sivua |
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adventure asked Battersea Park beautiful Benjamin Harrison Birkenshaw bowler hat Bramshaw Brandon called chair Christopher Codrington cold dear desk door dress drink Duc d'Orléans editor Edmund Grattan erine eyes face fellow felt fire flat Fleet Street flushed Frank Luttrell gave gentleman girl glad gone hackney carriage hair hand head heart hour journalist Kath Katherine Halstead Katherine's kind kissed knew lady laughed laughter light lips lived London looked Luttrell's Margaret Hubbard Marshwood morning Mother Hubbard never newspaper night paper Perhaps play pretty proprietor Quin round seemed Shaftesbury Avenue Silas Bellamy silent silk smiled sorry soul spirit spoke Staple Inn stared stood story strange talk tall tears tell things thought told took touch trell turned Vicary waiting whispered woman women wondered Worcestershire words young
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Sivu 139 - For to admire an' for to see, For to be'old this world so wide — It never done no good to me, But I can't drop it if I tried!
Sivu 40 - Turtle-dove or pelican, If she be not so to me, What care I how kind she be?
Sivu 109 - It blesseth him that gives and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Sivu 192 - We give Thee thanks for all Thy benefits, O Almighty God, who livest and reignest for ever; and may the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Sivu 126 - ... torture. A man who has read poetry and learnt it by heart cannot be content with writing paragraphs about cats at the Crystal Palace and murder in Whitechapel and fat boys at Peckham. Other men of education and ideals would not have suffered so acutely. With stronger fibre they would have resisted more manfully, but Frank was so sensitive that every nerve in him quivered at the least touch (a). And it will be useful to quote also a passage from a novelist who is not popular : (c) This clergyman...
Sivu 119 - ... was clasped over her breasts with marvellously wrought clasps of silver and gold; so that men saw the bright gold and the green silk flashing against the sun. On her head were two tresses of golden hair, and each tress had been plaited into four strands; at the end of each strand was a little ball of gold.
Sivu 119 - ... see upon the shell of a beetle. Never a maid fairer than she, or more worthy of love, was till then seen by the eyes of men; and it seemed to them that she must be one of those who have come from the fairy mounds...
Sivu 119 - Each of her two arms was as white as the snow of a single night, and each of her cheeks was as rosy as the foxglove. Even and small were the teeth in her head, and they shone like pearls. Her eyes were as blue as a hyacinth, her lips delicate and crimson; very high, soft and white were her shoulders.
Sivu 118 - And Eochaid came to that place to take the maiden thence, and this was the way that he took ; for as he crossed over the ground where men hold the assembly of Bri Leith, he saw the maiden at the brink of the spring. A clear comb of silver was held in her hand, the comb was adorned with gold; and near her, as for washing, was a bason of silver whereon four birds had been chased, and there were little bright gems of carbuncle on the rims of the bason.
Sivu 119 - White as the snow, or as the foam of the wave, was her side ; long was it, slender, and as soft as silk. Smooth and white were her thighs ; her knees^ were round and firm and white ; her ankles were as straight as the rule of a carpenter.