Sketches New and OldHarper, 1922 - 389 עמודים |
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עמוד
... FISHER 116 · DISGRACEFUL PERSECUTION OF A BOY 126 THE JUDGE'S " SPIRITED WOMAN " 131 INFORMATION WANTED SOME LEARNED FABLES , FOR GOOD OLD BOYS AND GIRLS 137 134 MY LATE SENATORIAL SECRETARYSHIP A FASHION ITEM RILEY - NEWSPAPER ...
... FISHER 116 · DISGRACEFUL PERSECUTION OF A BOY 126 THE JUDGE'S " SPIRITED WOMAN " 131 INFORMATION WANTED SOME LEARNED FABLES , FOR GOOD OLD BOYS AND GIRLS 137 134 MY LATE SENATORIAL SECRETARYSHIP A FASHION ITEM RILEY - NEWSPAPER ...
עמוד 115
... day if the business of the Circumlocution Office were as ingeniously systematized as it would be if it were a great private mercantile institution . THE CASE OF GEORGE FISHER ' ' HIS is history THE GREAT BEEF CONTRACT.
... day if the business of the Circumlocution Office were as ingeniously systematized as it would be if it were a great private mercantile institution . THE CASE OF GEORGE FISHER ' ' HIS is history THE GREAT BEEF CONTRACT.
עמוד 116
... Fisher's a great deathless and unrelenting swindle upon the government and people of the United States - for it has never been so decided , and I hold that it is a grave and solemn wrong for a writer to cast slurs or call names when ...
... Fisher's a great deathless and unrelenting swindle upon the government and people of the United States - for it has never been so decided , and I hold that it is a grave and solemn wrong for a writer to cast slurs or call names when ...
עמוד 117
... Fisher ; but if the troops destroyed it , the Government of the United States was debtor to Fisher for the amount in- volved . George Fisher must have considered that the In- dians destroyed the property , because , although he lived ...
... Fisher ; but if the troops destroyed it , the Government of the United States was debtor to Fisher for the amount in- volved . George Fisher must have considered that the In- dians destroyed the property , because , although he lived ...
עמוד 118
... Fisher heirs then came forward and put in a bill for damages . The Second Auditor awarded them $ 8,873 , being half the damage sustained by Fisher . The Auditor said the testimony showed that at least half the destruction was done by ...
... Fisher heirs then came forward and put in a bill for damages . The Second Auditor awarded them $ 8,873 , being half the damage sustained by Fisher . The Auditor said the testimony showed that at least half the destruction was done by ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
asked avait began believe bien bless Cæsar Capitoline Venus Cardiff Giant chance cheerful Chemung County child clerk comet Conchology Conrad creature dead distress dollars editor face feel fell Fisher frog gentlemen George Fisher give gone grenouille hand hanged happy head heard heart honor hour hundred Indians insane insanity plea jist kill knew lady legs little boy live look MARK TWAIN married matter ment mind Mormon trail morning Mound Builder never niggers night noble Old Red Sandstone once paper petrifaction Petrified poor Professor Woodlouse qu'il remark seemed seven-up Simon Wheeler Smiley sort stranger Sunday-school talk tell thing thought thousand tion told tomahawk took Tumble-Bug turned Virginia City wait woman word Written about 1865 young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 72 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
עמוד 21 - The feller took the money and started away; and when he was going out at the door he sorter jerked his thumb over his shoulder — so — at Dan'l, and says again, very deliberate: "Well," he says, "I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.
עמוד 20 - Well, thish-yer Smiley had rat-tarriers, and chicken cocks, and tomcats and all them kind of things, till you couldn't rest, and you couldn't fetch nothing for him to bet on but he'd match you. He ketched a frog one day, and took him home, and said he cal'lated to educate him; and so he never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to
עמוד 20 - It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, maybe, but it ain't — it's only just a frog.' "And the feller took it, and looked at it careful, and turned it round this way and that, and says, 'H'm — so 'tis. Well, what's he good for?' " 'Well,' Smiley says, easy and careless, 'he's good enough for one thing, 1 should judge — he can outjump any frog in Calaveras County.
עמוד 56 - THOSE evening bells ! those evening bells ! How many a tale their music tells, Of youth, and home, and that sweet time, When last I heard their soothing chime.
עמוד 256 - LET dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature too.
עמוד 21 - ... slopped around in the mud for a long time, and finally he ketched a frog and fetched him in and give him to this feller and says: "Now if you're ready, set him alongside of Dan'l, with his fore-paws just even with Dan'l's, and I'll give the word.
עמוד 21 - I'm only a stranger here, and I ain't got no frog; but if I had a frog, I'd bet you.' "And then Smiley says, 'That's all right—that's all right— if you'll hold my box a minute, I'll go and get you a frog.
עמוד 18 - Any way that suited the other man would suit him—any way just so's he got a bet, he was satisfied. But still he was lucky, uncommon lucky; he most always come out winner. He was always ready and laying for a chance; there couldn't be no...
עמוד 46 - ... in the legs, and women with the waists of their dresses under their arms, and no hoops on. Nothing like it in any of the Sunday-school books. Once he stole the teacher's pen-knife, and, when he was afraid it would be found out and he would get whipped, he slipped it into George Wilson's cap — poor Widow Wilson's son, the moral boy, the good little boy of the village, who always obeyed his mother, and never told an untruth, and was fond of his lessons, and infatuated with Sunday-school. And...