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מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 28
עמוד 13
... death with some exasperating reminis- cence of him as long and tedious as it should be useless to me . If that was the design , it succeeded . I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the bar - room stove of the dilapidated tavern in ...
... death with some exasperating reminis- cence of him as long and tedious as it should be useless to me . If that was the design , it succeeded . I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the bar - room stove of the dilapidated tavern in ...
עמוד 55
... deaths a week in the former and 500 a week in the latter - if they have luck . That is , 3120 deaths a year in San ... death in some other popular way , such as perishing by kerosene lamp and hoop - skirt conflagrations , getting ...
... deaths a week in the former and 500 a week in the latter - if they have luck . That is , 3120 deaths a year in San ... death in some other popular way , such as perishing by kerosene lamp and hoop - skirt conflagrations , getting ...
עמוד 56
... death , go thundering over the land , the marvel is , not that they kill three hundred human beings in a twelvemonth , but that they do not kill three hundred times three hundred ! 1 ABOUT BARBERS . It ALL things change except barbers ...
... death , go thundering over the land , the marvel is , not that they kill three hundred human beings in a twelvemonth , but that they do not kill three hundred times three hundred ! 1 ABOUT BARBERS . It ALL things change except barbers ...
עמוד 72
... Death . At such a time as this , you speak of water - lots ! -what a lot was his ! " What is fame ! Fame is an accident . Sir Isaac Newton dis- covered an apple falling to the ground — a trivial discovery , truly , and one which a ...
... Death . At such a time as this , you speak of water - lots ! -what a lot was his ! " What is fame ! Fame is an accident . Sir Isaac Newton dis- covered an apple falling to the ground — a trivial discovery , truly , and one which a ...
עמוד 77
... death of the man whose fields were destroyed . The new generation of 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 ...
... death of the man whose fields were destroyed . The new generation of 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 ...
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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...