Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 222William Blackwood, 1927 |
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Pagina 14
... passed , and every now and again you caught glimpses of a silver streak far below you : the rushing waters of the Montagua River , which the train joins at Rancho St Augustin . At first merely a large mountain stream dancing and ...
... passed , and every now and again you caught glimpses of a silver streak far below you : the rushing waters of the Montagua River , which the train joins at Rancho St Augustin . At first merely a large mountain stream dancing and ...
Pagina 17
... passed . We tossed about aimlessly until most of us , exhausted by sea - sickness and our efforts , fell asleep ; whilst the captain and a few of the crew kept watch in the inky darkness . What a wonderful thing sleep is , that ...
... passed . We tossed about aimlessly until most of us , exhausted by sea - sickness and our efforts , fell asleep ; whilst the captain and a few of the crew kept watch in the inky darkness . What a wonderful thing sleep is , that ...
Pagina 21
... passed . It will be light soon , I said to myself encouragingly . " Bring a hatchet ! " shrieked a voice from above . " Quick ! Quick ! " I needed no second bidding , but charged out of the cabin and grasped the hatchet in its rack at ...
... passed . It will be light soon , I said to myself encouragingly . " Bring a hatchet ! " shrieked a voice from above . " Quick ! Quick ! " I needed no second bidding , but charged out of the cabin and grasped the hatchet in its rack at ...
Pagina 22
... ? Clearer and clearer it grew . We were quite help- less , we could only wait , and that is the hardest thing of all , inertia , inaction . Tense moments passed almost of un- endurable anxiety , whilst with 22 [ July The Elusive Trail .
... ? Clearer and clearer it grew . We were quite help- less , we could only wait , and that is the hardest thing of all , inertia , inaction . Tense moments passed almost of un- endurable anxiety , whilst with 22 [ July The Elusive Trail .
Pagina 23
... passed almost of un- endurable anxiety , whilst with muscles nerved to the last pitch we kept our hold on the battered ship , our hold on life itself . To - morrow , perhaps , the sun would be shining . Should we be basking in its life ...
... passed almost of un- endurable anxiety , whilst with muscles nerved to the last pitch we kept our hold on the battered ship , our hold on life itself . To - morrow , perhaps , the sun would be shining . Should we be basking in its life ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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Populaire passages
Pagina 152 - Horrible, hairy, human, with paws like hands in prayer, Making his supplication rose Adam-zad the Bear! I looked at the swaying shoulders, at the paunch's swag and swing, And my heart was touched with pity for the monstrous, pleading thing.
Pagina 283 - How then shall any man, who has a genius for history equal to the best of the ancients, be able to undertake such a work with spirit and cheerfulness, when he considers that he will be read with pleasure but a very few years, and, in an age or two, shall hardly be understood without an interpreter?
Pagina 282 - ... that our language is extremely imperfect ; that its daily ' improvements are by no means in proportion to v its daily corruptions ; that the pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied abuses and absurdities ; and that in many instances it offends against every part of grammar.
Pagina 285 - If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style, which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy...
Pagina 59 - I heard three sensible middle-aged men, when the Scotch were said to be at Stamford, and actually were at Derby, talking of hiring a chaise to go to Caxton (a place in the high-road) to see the Pretender and Highlanders as they passed.
Pagina 516 - So sincere and so undisguised, that no mind with a spark of generosity would ever think of hurting him, he lies so open to injury. But so indolent, that if he cannot overcome this habit, all his good qualities will signify nothing at all.
Pagina 285 - The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language into another without imparting something of its native idiom...
Pagina 849 - They do not preach that their God will rouse them a little before the nuts work loose.
Pagina 60 - The populace, at first, did not interrupt him, conceiving our army to be near the town ; but as soon as they knew that it would not arrive till the evening, they surrounded him in a tumultuous manner, with the intention of taking him prisoner, alive or dead.
Pagina 155 - Westminster Hall ; for many people think, if once they have fetched a warrant from a justice, they have given earnest to follow the suit, though otherwise the matter be so mean that the next night's sleep would have bound both parties to the peace, and made them as good friends as ever before.