Scribner's Magazine ..., Volume 18C. Scribner's sons, 1895 |
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... light- ly do they touch the ground . Perhaps the most exciting of all the track events are the bicycle races , for it is astonish- ing to behold the speed of those meagre skeletons of steel that seem almost like The Boat - house . the ...
... light- ly do they touch the ground . Perhaps the most exciting of all the track events are the bicycle races , for it is astonish- ing to behold the speed of those meagre skeletons of steel that seem almost like The Boat - house . the ...
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... Light , and running up with salty sides to quarantine like great tired hounds . The piazza of the Crescent Club House is more interesting than any club window on Fifth Avenue , and it makes a great part of the life of the club . It is a ...
... Light , and running up with salty sides to quarantine like great tired hounds . The piazza of the Crescent Club House is more interesting than any club window on Fifth Avenue , and it makes a great part of the life of the club . It is a ...
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... light shows up over Owl's Head , is sweltering , the men lie there and sing . There will be scarcely another sound in the air save the soft rush of some excursion steamer slip- ping by like a white castle of lights , and the crowd will ...
... light shows up over Owl's Head , is sweltering , the men lie there and sing . There will be scarcely another sound in the air save the soft rush of some excursion steamer slip- ping by like a white castle of lights , and the crowd will ...
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... light - that floods it , and throws the light out beyond into the faces of a characteristic audience , that banks up from the ring until it gets beyond the circle of the light and reaches close to the ceiling - fifty or sixty feet away ...
... light - that floods it , and throws the light out beyond into the faces of a characteristic audience , that banks up from the ring until it gets beyond the circle of the light and reaches close to the ceiling - fifty or sixty feet away ...
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... light in Watson's cottage , and a few lights from the main street beyond pierced the darkness . The " Spotted Deer " must be at that moment full of people , all talking of her and Isaac . Her eye came hastily back to the snow- shrouded ...
... light in Watson's cottage , and a few lights from the main street beyond pierced the darkness . The " Spotted Deer " must be at that moment full of people , all talking of her and Isaac . Her eye came hastily back to the snow- shrouded ...
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Page 609 - ... accomplished by constantly bearing in mind that we are the trustees and agents of our fellow-citizens, holding their funds in sacred trust, to be expended for their benefit : that we should, at all times, be prepared to render an honest account...
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Page 497 - The governments of the United States and Great Britain having not only desired, in entering into this convention, to accomplish a particular object, but also to establish a general principle, they hereby agree to extend their protection, by treaty stipulations, to any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus...