The Living Age, Volume 212Living Age Company, 1897 |
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Page 12
... passed upon the river , and the keen , sinister face of the driver , which had ill con- trasted with his apparent sleep and stupidity . Courthope tossed aside the skin with a jerk . A rum bottle , a small hoard of frozen bread and bacon ...
... passed upon the river , and the keen , sinister face of the driver , which had ill con- trasted with his apparent sleep and stupidity . Courthope tossed aside the skin with a jerk . A rum bottle , a small hoard of frozen bread and bacon ...
Page 13
... passed in and out of the tightly - drawn nostrils . The touch that would have been reverent to a corpse was now rough . He shook the fallen man and shouted . He raised him to a sitting posture , but finding that , standing as he did ...
... passed in and out of the tightly - drawn nostrils . The touch that would have been reverent to a corpse was now rough . He shook the fallen man and shouted . He raised him to a sitting posture , but finding that , standing as he did ...
Page 19
... passed the grove of high elms and birches that , dressed in the snowflakes that had lodged in boughs and branches when the wind dropped , stood up clear against the gulfs of blue that now opened above and beyond . Then the house was ...
... passed the grove of high elms and birches that , dressed in the snowflakes that had lodged in boughs and branches when the wind dropped , stood up clear against the gulfs of blue that now opened above and beyond . Then the house was ...
Page 27
... passed from town to town , a dark train , blazoned with the red cross symbolic of propitiatory suf- fering , lacerating themselves on the highways , in the streets and market- places with the iron - pointed scourge- the badge and ...
... passed from town to town , a dark train , blazoned with the red cross symbolic of propitiatory suf- fering , lacerating themselves on the highways , in the streets and market- places with the iron - pointed scourge- the badge and ...
Page 30
... passed over his head , stilling his impulses and silenc- ing the last whispers of unsatisfied cravings , " the exterior manifesta- tions " gave place , he says , to those which were interior . Then it is that , with a touch of ...
... passed over his head , stilling his impulses and silenc- ing the last whispers of unsatisfied cravings , " the exterior manifesta- tions " gave place , he says , to those which were interior . Then it is that , with a touch of ...
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