Jerry: a Novel of Yankee American Life

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Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1872 - 320 עמודים
 

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עמוד 104 - Ah, there was a woman !" simply makes us uncomfortably jealous ; we feel like exclaiming, with a certain asperity, that there are as good fish in the sea as ever were caught.
עמוד 300 - I ever be married it shall be to an old man ; they always make the best husbands ; and it is better to be an old man's darling than a young man's warling.
עמוד 39 - If men are so bad with religion, what would they be without it?
עמוד 106 - He put his arm around her, and she laid her head on his shoulder, and their great happiness might have been sealed and celebrated with a kiss, but Mr.
עמוד 108 - Open your mouth, and shut your eyes, and I will give you something to make you wise." 2. Have you found out what the trouble is? 3. Have you wound the clocks this week? 4. Do not put a square peg in a round hole. 5. Can you hear the sound of my voice at all? 6. You do not need to shout at me. 7. There was a loud knock at the door. 8. Are you going down town this afternoon? 9. Don't...
עמוד 287 - Smash went right home, as soon as they had done for you," said Jerry. "Well, I want you to bring 'em back to me. Nobody else can handle them but you, now I am disabled, and I want you to come and take care of me and the horses. I'll give you good wages, and if I die I'll give you the horses. You are a good nurse, and I need one if ever anybody did." " That's sure and sartin,
עמוד 3 - Every one to his trade — you to your preaching, and I to my mouse-traps." A man cannot be expected to till his farm, build his house, and make his shoes, and his clock. He is a useful member of society, and a man of most respectable acquirements, if he does either one of these things well, and keeps a sharp look-out upon those who engage in the remainder of...
עמוד 107 - It is better to have a man without money, than money without a man.

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