Specimens of Prose CompositionCharles Read Nutter, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey, Chester Noyes Greenough Ginn, 1907 - 478 oldal |
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1 - 5 találat összesen 33 találatból.
34. oldal
... leaves the offensive arm per- fectly free . -- Coast defence implies coast attack . To what attacks are coasts liable ? Two , principally , blockade and bom- bardment . The latter , being the more difficult , includes 15 the former , as ...
... leaves the offensive arm per- fectly free . -- Coast defence implies coast attack . To what attacks are coasts liable ? Two , principally , blockade and bom- bardment . The latter , being the more difficult , includes 15 the former , as ...
43. oldal
... leaves ; through the gray aisles of the forest men walked always in a kind of mid - day gloaming . Those who had lived in the open plains felt when they came to the back - woods as if their heads were hooded . Save on the border of a ...
... leaves ; through the gray aisles of the forest men walked always in a kind of mid - day gloaming . Those who had lived in the open plains felt when they came to the back - woods as if their heads were hooded . Save on the border of a ...
46. oldal
... leaves a strong though not wholly agreeable impression . Richmond has a quaint old - world look which dwells in the memory : few cities have a sea front equal in beauty to the lake front of 25 Cleveland . Washington , with its wide and ...
... leaves a strong though not wholly agreeable impression . Richmond has a quaint old - world look which dwells in the memory : few cities have a sea front equal in beauty to the lake front of 25 Cleveland . Washington , with its wide and ...
59. oldal
... leaves behind a mocking , tragical , and soon intolerable residue , which must be hurriedly concealed . Hence a whole chapter of sights and 15 customs striking to the mind , from the pyramids of Egypt to the gibbets and dule trees of ...
... leaves behind a mocking , tragical , and soon intolerable residue , which must be hurriedly concealed . Hence a whole chapter of sights and 15 customs striking to the mind , from the pyramids of Egypt to the gibbets and dule trees of ...
68. oldal
... leaves , and these are apt to be lost in the making of the hay . To illustrate 15 this , let us take clover as an example . Clover makes excellent food for cows and is , therefore , in great demand . Hay , then , should be cut when the ...
... leaves , and these are apt to be lost in the making of the hay . To illustrate 15 this , let us take clover as an example . Clover makes excellent food for cows and is , therefore , in great demand . Hay , then , should be cut when the ...
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American B. E. Fernow balance of trade beautiful Boston BRANDER MATTHEWS called character Charles Scribner's Sons color danger dark debts desirable door England Europe European eyes feet fire floor foreign forest reserve Forestry and Irrigation forests would yield Franconia Range G. P. Putnam's Sons green ground half Hampshire Forestry Commission hand hung immigration industry interest island J. B. Harrison labor land light Little Tapin living look lumber lumber companies ment Mifflin Miscellanies Monroe Doctrine NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE national reserve natural never night occupation of custom-houses party Piggy polype present river ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON RUDYARD KIPLING San Domingo seemed side slopes Stevenson stood tall thing THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY THOMAS CARLYLE tion to-day treaty trees turned United wall White Mountain region White Mountains whole wind woods words writing young
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389. oldal - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
312. oldal - During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
312. oldal - I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain, upon the bleak walls, upon the vacant eye-like windows, upon a few rank sedges, and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees, with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium, the bitter lapse into every-day life, the hideous dropping off of the veil.
23. oldal - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
313. oldal - ... among considerations beyond our depth. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate, its capacity for sorrowful impression ; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling...
312. oldal - DURING THE WHOLE of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
313. oldal - It was a mystery all insoluble ; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered.
278. oldal - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
14. oldal - He has his eyes on all his company; he is tender towards the bashful, gentle towards the distant, and merciful towards the absurd ; he can recollect to whom he is speaking; he guards against unseasonable allusions, or topics which may irritate; he is seldom prominent in conversation, and never wearisome.
279. oldal - There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock hangings of Mrs.