Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 224W. Blackwood, 1928 |
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Pagina 28
... knew what he was talking about , for he had found the rock , even though it had been much farther than we expected . It was not his fault that there was no water . Now if we really were half - way we could do the rest all right , for we ...
... knew what he was talking about , for he had found the rock , even though it had been much farther than we expected . It was not his fault that there was no water . Now if we really were half - way we could do the rest all right , for we ...
Pagina 42
... knew -a puff adder ! I had not seen the thing before , though I had been sitting not three feet from the spot . Perhaps it had only just emerged from the crevice . I loathe snakes ; and the horrible fat body and stumpy tail of this ...
... knew -a puff adder ! I had not seen the thing before , though I had been sitting not three feet from the spot . Perhaps it had only just emerged from the crevice . I loathe snakes ; and the horrible fat body and stumpy tail of this ...
Pagina 43
... knew that , or what suffer- ing he had endured before he climbed painfully to the top , to look perhaps for landmarks or to rest a while in safety from beasts of prey . How had he died ? That , too , must remain a mystery . Exhaus- tion ...
... knew that , or what suffer- ing he had endured before he climbed painfully to the top , to look perhaps for landmarks or to rest a while in safety from beasts of prey . How had he died ? That , too , must remain a mystery . Exhaus- tion ...
Pagina 46
... knew of no catholic in Scotland fit for her . Six months at a monastery portionless cured Lady Isabel of any liking for that sort of life , and Blakhal , himself in hardly better case as chaplain to a counsellor at Paris , was entreated ...
... knew of no catholic in Scotland fit for her . Six months at a monastery portionless cured Lady Isabel of any liking for that sort of life , and Blakhal , himself in hardly better case as chaplain to a counsellor at Paris , was entreated ...
Pagina 57
... knew his name , had not seen him before , and never saw him again . This gentleman took him to Madame de la Flotte ... knew well that if the girl was to be brought out of Scotland it lay with him to do it - no one else would stir a ...
... knew his name , had not seen him before , and never saw him again . This gentleman took him to Madame de la Flotte ... knew well that if the girl was to be brought out of Scotland it lay with him to do it - no one else would stir a ...
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Pagina 45 - Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him ? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines : for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
Pagina 673 - Where by any of these rules one of two vessels is to keep out of the way, the other shall keep her course and speed.
Pagina 338 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
Pagina 489 - Seamen in general that whatever you give them out of the common way — altho' it be ever so much for their good — it will not go down, and you will hear nothing but murmurings against the Man that first invented it; but the moment they see their superiors set a value upon it, it becomes the finest stuff in the world and the inventor an honest fellow.
Pagina 493 - Yards from the breakers, the same Sea that washed the sides of the Ship rose in a breaker prodigiously high the very next time it did rise so that between us and destruction was only a dismal Vally the breadth of one wave and even now no ground could be felt with 120 fathoms.
Pagina 843 - From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Bias, and Robinson Crusoe came out, a glorious host, to keep me company. They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time, — they, and the Arabian Nights and the Tales of the Genii...
Pagina 420 - ... refusal. To give way to the blackmailer's menaces enriches him, but it has long been proved by uniform experience that, although this may secure for the victim temporary peace, it is certain to lead to renewed molestation and higher demands after ever-shortening periods of amicable forbearance.
Pagina 421 - Either Germany is definitely aiming at a general political hegemony and maritime ascendency, threatening the independence of her neighbours and ultimately the existence of England; Or Germany, free from any such clear-cut ambition, and thinking for the present merely of using her legitimate position and influence as one of the leading Powers in the council of nations, is seeking to promote her foreign commerce, spread the benefits of German culture, extend the scope of her national energies, and...
Pagina 78 - Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow. Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Pagina 843 - Don Quixote, Gil Bias, and Robinson Crusoe came out, a glorious host, to keep me company. They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time — they, and the Arabian Nights, and the Tales of the Genii — and did me no harm ; for, whatever harm was in some of them, was not there for me ; I knew nothing of it.