 Steam-boat a-comin' !" and the scene changes ! The town drunkard stirs, the clerks wake up, a furious clatter of drays follows, every house and store pours out a human contribution, and all in a twinkling the dead town is alive and moving. Drays, carts,...  The Atlantic Monthly - Pagina 631875Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Mark Twain - 1901 - 506 pagine
...famous for his quick eye and prodigious voice, lifts up the cry, " Steam-boat a-comin' !" and the scene changes ! The town drunkard stirs, the clerks wake...boys, all go hurrying from many quarters to a common center, the wharf. Assembled there, the people fasten their eyes upon the coming boat as upon a wonder... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1902 - 532 pagine
...famous for his quick eye and prodigious voice, lifts up the cry, " Steam-boat a-comin' ! " and the scene changes ! The town drunkard stirs, the clerks wake...in a twinkling the dead town is alive and moving. — MARK TWAIN. 8. The twilight swallows the thicket, The starlight reveals the ridge; The whistle... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1903 - 500 pagine
...famous for his quick eye and prodigious voice, lifts up the cry, " Steam-boat a-comin' !" and the scene changes ! The town drunkard stirs, the clerks wake...boys, all go hurrying from many quarters to a common center, the wharf. Assembled there, the people fasten their eyes upon the coming boat as upon a wonder... | |
 | Julia Henderson Levering - 1909 - 806 pagine
...the lookout for trade yells, " Steamboat a-comin'," and the scene changes. The town drunkards stir; the clerks wake up; a furious clatter of drays follows. Every house and store pours out its human contribution, and all in a twinkling the dead town is alive and moving. Drays, carts, men,... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1910 - 188 pagine
...famous for his quick eye and prodigious voice, lifts up the cry, " Steam-boat a-comin'!" and the scene changes ! The town drunkard stirs, the clerks wake up, a furious clatter of drays, every house and store pours out a human contri25 bution, and all in a twinkling the dead town is alive... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1915 - 472 pagine
...famous for his quick eye and prodigious voice, lifts up the cry, "Steam boat a-comin'l" and the scene changes ! The town drunkard stirs, the clerks wake...alive and moving. Drays, carts, men, boys, all go hurryine to a common center, the wharf. Assembled there, the people fasten their eyes upon the coming... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1917 - 536 pagine
...famous for his quick eye and prodigious voice, lifts up the cry, " Steam-boat a-comin' !" and the scene changes ! The town drunkard stirs, the clerks wake...boys, all go hurrying from many quarters to a common center, the wharf. Assembled there, the people fasten their eyes upon the coming boat as upon a wonder... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1917 - 544 pagine
...famous for his quirb eye and prodigious voice, lifts up the cry, "Steamboat a-comin'!" and the scene changes! The town drunkard stirs, the clerks wake...boys, all go hurrying from many quarters to a common center, the wharf. Assembled there, the people fasten their eyes upon the coming boat as upon a wonder... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1917 - 474 pagine
...famous for his quick eye and prodigious voice, lifts up the cry, "Steam boat a-comin'!" and the scene changes ! The town drunkard stirs, the clerks wake...and moving. Drays, carts, men, boys, all go hurrying to a common center, the wharf. Assembled there, the people fasten their eyes upon the coming boat as... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1917 - 550 pagine
...famous for his quick eye and prodigious voice, lifts up the cry, "Steamboat a-comin'!" and the scene changes! The town drunkard stirs, the clerks wake up, a furious clatter of drays follows, e-«try house and store pours out a human contribution, and all in a twinkling the dead town is alive... | |
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