Mark Twain's sketches |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 15
עמוד 16
... begin to stick out like the fo'castle of a steamboat , and his teeth would uncover , and shine wicked , you hear me . And a dog might tackle him , and bully - rag him , and bite him , and throw him over hist shoulder two or three times ...
... begin to stick out like the fo'castle of a steamboat , and his teeth would uncover , and shine wicked , you hear me . And a dog might tackle him , and bully - rag him , and bite him , and throw him over hist shoulder two or three times ...
עמוד 25
... begin setting out his corn - stalks and planting his buck- wheat cakes in July instead of August . " Concerning the Pumpkin . - This berry is a favourite with the natives of the interior of New England , who prefer it to the gooseberry ...
... begin setting out his corn - stalks and planting his buck- wheat cakes in July instead of August . " Concerning the Pumpkin . - This berry is a favourite with the natives of the interior of New England , who prefer it to the gooseberry ...
עמוד 26
... begin . I read one of them paragraphs over again , so as to be certain , and then I burned my house down and started . I have crippled several people , and have got one fellow up a tree , where I can get him if I want him . But I ...
... begin . I read one of them paragraphs over again , so as to be certain , and then I burned my house down and started . I have crippled several people , and have got one fellow up a tree , where I can get him if I want him . But I ...
עמוד 94
... begin to feel that I , too , am called . Young man , you love the bright creature yonder with the gentle blue eyes and the steel pens behind her ears — I see it in your soft glances ; you wish to marry her - but you are poor . Here ...
... begin to feel that I , too , am called . Young man , you love the bright creature yonder with the gentle blue eyes and the steel pens behind her ears — I see it in your soft glances ; you wish to marry her - but you are poor . Here ...
עמוד 131
... begin . " " I have an article on the ' Encouraging Progress of Moral and Intellectual Development in America ' to finish , but there is no hurry . Begin . " Both pistols rang out their fierce clamour at the same instant . The chief lost ...
... begin . " " I have an article on the ' Encouraging Progress of Moral and Intellectual Development in America ' to finish , but there is no hurry . Begin . " Both pistols rang out their fierce clamour at the same instant . The chief lost ...
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 19 - ... filled him pretty near up to his chin — and set him on the floor. Smiley he went to the swamp and 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 forepaws even with Dan'l's, and I'll give the word.
עמוד 18 - It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, maybe, but it ain't — it's only just a frog.
עמוד 15 - If there was a horse-race, you'd find him flush, or you'd find him busted at the end of it; if there was a dog-fight, he'd bet on it; if there was a cat-fight, he'd bet on it; if there was a chicken-fight, he'd bet on it; why, if there was two birds setting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first...
עמוד 14 - W. Smiley — a young minister of the Gospel, who he had heard was at one time a resident of Angel's Camp. I added that, if Mr. Wheeler could tell me anything about this Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, I would feel under many obligations to him.
עמוד 17 - ... grip and hang on till they throwed up the sponge, if it was a year. Smiley always come out winner on that pup, till he harnessed a dog once that didn't have no hind legs, because they'd been sawed off by a circular saw, and...
עמוד 20 - Smiley he went to the swamp and 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 19 - The feller took the money and started away; and when he was going out...
עמוד 19 - 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, I should judge — he can outjump any frog in Calaveras County.
עמוד 15 - ... that straddle-bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road. Lots of the boys here has seen that Smiley, and can tell you about him.
עמוד 14 - There was a feller here once by the name of Jim Smiley, in the winter of '49 — or maybe it was the spring of '50 — I don't recollect exactly...