The Living Age, Bind 226Living Age Company, 1900 |
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Side 26
... dark corner , and by the door I picked up a book . It had lost its covers , and the pages had been thumbed into a state of extremely dirty softness ; but the back had been lovingly stitched afresh with white cotton thread , which looked ...
... dark corner , and by the door I picked up a book . It had lost its covers , and the pages had been thumbed into a state of extremely dirty softness ; but the back had been lovingly stitched afresh with white cotton thread , which looked ...
Side 29
... dark hues by the presence of dark mud and stones or light sands and shells . In all these shades the crabs imitate their environ- ments , even to giving the white patch on their carapace a greenish tinge , especially in the pools ...
... dark hues by the presence of dark mud and stones or light sands and shells . In all these shades the crabs imitate their environ- ments , even to giving the white patch on their carapace a greenish tinge , especially in the pools ...
Side 31
... dark . Full - grown specimens are seldom above three inches across the back . They are rarely found inside ordinary low water spring tides or beyond half a mile from shore . They are the most fierce and cruel of all the smaller crabs ...
... dark . Full - grown specimens are seldom above three inches across the back . They are rarely found inside ordinary low water spring tides or beyond half a mile from shore . They are the most fierce and cruel of all the smaller crabs ...
Side 32
... darker colors are still wanting the plush is often rubbed off the back in places , showing their dark form and giving them a color suitable to their surroundings . But their greatest mimicry seems to be on the first sight of the human ...
... darker colors are still wanting the plush is often rubbed off the back in places , showing their dark form and giving them a color suitable to their surroundings . But their greatest mimicry seems to be on the first sight of the human ...
Side 34
... dark olive laminarian sea- weeds , a dark chocolate color is put on , which so quietly blends with these weeds that their forms cannot be dis- tinguished among these dark olive con- ditions ; while in deeper water on the low rocks 34 ...
... dark olive laminarian sea- weeds , a dark chocolate color is put on , which so quietly blends with these weeds that their forms cannot be dis- tinguished among these dark olive con- ditions ; while in deeper water on the low rocks 34 ...
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Side 463 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Side 182 - He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Side 25 - ... wild and passionate uproar. Ugly. Yes, it was ugly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of a response to the terrible frankness of that noise, a dim suspicion of there being a meaning in it which you - you so remote from the night of first ages - could comprehend. And why not? The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
Side 356 - So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? O, pardon! since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million; And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work.
Side 356 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment.
Side 182 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Side 356 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object; can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Side 183 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Side 148 - Ne nous emportons point contre les hommes , en voyant leur dureté, leur ingratitude, leur injustice, leur fierté, l'amour d'eux-mêmes, et l'oubli des autres; ils sont ainsi faits, c'est leur nature : c'est ne pouvoir supporter que la pierre tombe, ou que le feu s'élève.
Side 15 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.