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Page 11
... explained to Daddy X. Suddenly the winding road , as though by a wiggle of its great backbone , straightened out before them . It led along a well - graded turnpike to the yawning arches of a steel bridge , but off to the side , almost ...
... explained to Daddy X. Suddenly the winding road , as though by a wiggle of its great backbone , straightened out before them . It led along a well - graded turnpike to the yawning arches of a steel bridge , but off to the side , almost ...
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... explanation that their little capital would support two longer than three . Celesta was quite old enough to keep house . " Celesta , my dear , " Aunt Bertha had said on that last morning , while they waited for the expressman after her ...
... explanation that their little capital would support two longer than three . Celesta was quite old enough to keep house . " Celesta , my dear , " Aunt Bertha had said on that last morning , while they waited for the expressman after her ...
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... explained , as she showed him into a little office off from the main hall . " I was busy with a patient and could not come at once to the door . Dr. Anson , of course , does not live in at nights . " Cal was conscious of an odor of ...
... explained , as she showed him into a little office off from the main hall . " I was busy with a patient and could not come at once to the door . Dr. Anson , of course , does not live in at nights . " Cal was conscious of an odor of ...
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... explained . Mrs. Stake looked at Reed and Reed looked at Mrs. Stake , and as they looked all the woman's sternness melted into an expression very human and motherly . " Come on in , Son , " she said . " I know you're hungry . Boys o ...
... explained . Mrs. Stake looked at Reed and Reed looked at Mrs. Stake , and as they looked all the woman's sternness melted into an expression very human and motherly . " Come on in , Son , " she said . " I know you're hungry . Boys o ...
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... explanation of Gander's own appellation , and Gander offered none , evidently quite overlooking the need of it . It was not entirely associated with his lean , flexible neck . When he was a boy of fourteen or fifteen years , his voice ...
... explanation of Gander's own appellation , and Gander offered none , evidently quite overlooking the need of it . It was not entirely associated with his lean , flexible neck . When he was a boy of fourteen or fifteen years , his voice ...
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Adam's apple ain't Annie Frawdic answer Antelope arms asked began Big Jim boy's boy's sake Bradshaw bruiséd reed Cal and Reed Cal Beach Cal felt Cal's Celesta cloud corner cream separator Daddy Daddy X dark Dinty Moore doctor door Double F eyes face farm farmer Father Gopher fell field fingers fire flax Ford Gander gasoline girl glow gone granary Grandma Grit hair hand head heart horses Jackson Stake knew lake light lips looked mind Minnie Stake Minnie's morning mother never night nurse old Ford perhaps Plainville prairie Reed's road seemed shadow silence sleep stable stood strange sudden suddenly supper sure tell there's thing thought tion to-night told took trail Trix turned voice watched wheat Wheatview wheel window Winnipeg wondered words young Jackson
Popular passages
Page 218 - He shall not cry, nor lift up, Nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench : He shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
Page 113 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Page 106 - Twilight a-stealing over the sea, Shadows are falling, dark on the lea. Borne on the night wind, voices of yore Come from the far-off shore. Far away, beyond the starry sky, Where the love-light never, never dies, Gleameth a mansion filled with delight, Sweet happy home so bright.
Page 44 - DD's [degrees], or whatever it is, after his name. What he wants is horsepower an' savvy,
Page 57 - ... very gently and cautiously stroked, pressed and pinched the tiny nose just in the hope of discovering for good and all whether it was not as other noses are. And on every occasion she became more and more convinced that there was no hope at all, that it was the same in substance and consistency as it had been the day before and the day before that and the day before that; that, in fact, it was of wax. The consequence was that even at the age of six this particular feature in Sam's rather long...
Page 7 - Grass, green and moist, with a purple carpeting of anemones. Water shining from many tiny lakes. Coveys of white clouds, like ruffled swans, afloat in an infinite sky.
Page 26 - He had made up his mind that under no circumstances would he go back to his old home.
Page 287 - Jackson had lain down and fallen asleep, but as his eyes became accustomed to the light he saw that...
Page 121 - They haven'ta glimpse of what it should be — of what it could be made — " "That's just it,