The Speaker: A Quarterly Magazine of Successful Readings, Volume 8Pearson Brothers, 1913 - Recitations |
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... took it up and went to Parson Williams about it ; and the parson he told ' em jest to keep still , not let the fellars know they was bein ' watched , and next Sunday he and the tithingsman and the constable , they'd ride over and ketch ...
... took it up and went to Parson Williams about it ; and the parson he told ' em jest to keep still , not let the fellars know they was bein ' watched , and next Sunday he and the tithingsman and the constable , they'd ride over and ketch ...
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... took so sudden it was all he could do to jest hold on anyway ; so away he went , and trees and bushes and fences streaked by him like ribbons . His hat flew off behind him , and his wig arter and got ketched in a barberry bush ; but ...
... took so sudden it was all he could do to jest hold on anyway ; so away he went , and trees and bushes and fences streaked by him like ribbons . His hat flew off behind him , and his wig arter and got ketched in a barberry bush ; but ...
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... took wing , and now there was nothing to be seen but fires in every direction . Fuel and pigs grew enormously dear all over the district . The in- surance offices one and all shut up shop . People built slighter and slighter every day ...
... took wing , and now there was nothing to be seen but fires in every direction . Fuel and pigs grew enormously dear all over the district . The in- surance offices one and all shut up shop . People built slighter and slighter every day ...
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... took up his telephone receiver . " This is the city desk , " he murmured , in his tone of gentle inquiry . And then , after a few intent seconds , he dropped his cigar on the floor and drew in his breath sharply . " Please repeat that ...
... took up his telephone receiver . " This is the city desk , " he murmured , in his tone of gentle inquiry . And then , after a few intent seconds , he dropped his cigar on the floor and drew in his breath sharply . " Please repeat that ...
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... took the priest off his guard that he had no time to cover his tracks , and before he could find himself he had given away the fact that the lad could not hope for more than forty - eight hours . " Sure , then it's time I got the load ...
... took the priest off his guard that he had no time to cover his tracks , and before he could find himself he had given away the fact that the lad could not hope for more than forty - eight hours . " Sure , then it's time I got the load ...
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Page 299 - And if my standard-bearer fall, as fall full well he may, For never saw I promise yet of such a bloody fray, Press where ye see my white plume shine, amidst the ranks of war, And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre.
Page 7 - The ears of Ho-ti tingled with horror. He cursed his son, and he cursed himself that ever he should beget a son that should eat burnt Pig. Bo-bo, whose scent was wonderfully sharpened since morning, soon raked out another pig, and fairly rending it asunder, thrust the lesser half by main force into the fists of Ho-ti, still shouting out "Eat, eat, eat the burnt pig, father, only taste — O Lord," — with such-like barbarous ejaculations, cramming all the while as if he would choke.
Page 279 - Venerable men, you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are, indeed, over your heads; the same ocean rolla at your feet; but all else, how changed!
Page 7 - His father might lay on, but he could not beat him from his pig, till he had fairly made an end of it, when, becoming a little more sensible of his situation, something like the following dialogue ensued. "You graceless whelp, what have you got there devouring? Is it not enough that you have burnt me down three houses with your dog's tricks, and be hanged to you!
Page 309 - In memory of the man but for whom had gone to wrack All that France saved from the fight whence England bore the bell. Go to Paris; rank on rank Search the heroes flung pell-mell On the Louvre, face and flank! You shall look long enough ere you come to Herve Riel.
Page 281 - All quiet along the Potomac," they say, "Except now and then a stray picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.
Page 8 - The judge, who was a shrewd fellow, winked at the manifest iniquity of the decision : and, when the court was dismissed, went privily, and bought up all the pigs that could be had for love or money. In a few days his Lordship's town house was observed to be on fire.
Page 343 - By the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the dead! Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Under the one, the Blue, Under the other, the Gray.
Page 305 - ON the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred ninety-two, Did the English fight the French, — woe to France ! And, the thirty-first of May, helter-skelter through the blue, Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue, Came crowding ship on ship to St. Malo on the Ranee, With the English fleet in view.
Page 308 - Hearts that bled are stanched with balm. " Just our rapture to enhance, Let the English rake the bay, Gnash their teeth and glare askance As they cannonade away ! 'Neath rampired Solidor pleasant riding on the Ranee...