Complete Writings of O. Henry [i.e. W.S. Porter]Doubleday, Page, 1917 |
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O. Henry. " The time has come , " the Walrus said , " To talk of many things ; Of shoes and ships and sealing - wax , And cabbages and kings . " THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER * a CONTENTS THE PROEM : BY THE CARPENTER I. T12-221206.
O. Henry. " The time has come , " the Walrus said , " To talk of many things ; Of shoes and ships and sealing - wax , And cabbages and kings . " THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER * a CONTENTS THE PROEM : BY THE CARPENTER I. T12-221206.
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... things . Per- haps to the promiscuous ear of the Walrus it shall come with most avail ; for in it there are indeed shoes and ships and sealing - wax and cabbage - palms and presidents instead of kings . Add to these a little love and ...
... things . Per- haps to the promiscuous ear of the Walrus it shall come with most avail ; for in it there are indeed shoes and ships and sealing - wax and cabbage - palms and presidents instead of kings . Add to these a little love and ...
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... things , my boy . It won't do to trifle with the feelings of the public this way . You'll be getting a pink note some day with violet scent on it ; and then the country'll be steeped in the throes of a revolution . " Goodwin had ...
... things , my boy . It won't do to trifle with the feelings of the public this way . You'll be getting a pink note some day with violet scent on it ; and then the country'll be steeped in the throes of a revolution . " Goodwin had ...
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... things without wings could safely pass . Therefore the fugitives could hope to reach the coast only by one of the routes named . " Keep the matter quiet , Billy , " advised Goodwin . " We don't want the Ins to know that the president is ...
... things without wings could safely pass . Therefore the fugitives could hope to reach the coast only by one of the routes named . " Keep the matter quiet , Billy , " advised Goodwin . " We don't want the Ins to know that the president is ...
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... thing , a chimera of his idle brain . Geddie went into his office and sat down to dawdle over his report . If the reading of the article in the paper had left him unshaken , this silent passing of the Idalia had done for him still more ...
... thing , a chimera of his idle brain . Geddie went into his office and sat down to dawdle over his report . If the reading of the article in the paper had left him unshaken , this silent passing of the Idalia had done for him still more ...
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Pagina 51 - The mountains reached up their bulky shoulders to receive the level gallop of Apollo's homing steeds, the day died in the lagoons and in the shadowed banana groves and in the mangrove swamps, where the great blue crabs were beginning to crawl to land for their nightly ramble. And it died, at last, upon the highest peaks. Then the brief twilight, ephemeral as the flight of a moth, came and went; the Southern Cross peeped with its topmost eye above a row of palms, and the fire-flies heralded with their...
Pagina 209 - Hie old boy doesn't draw badly at all. But, ye goddesses of Art! listen to the monstrosity he expects me to paint. He wants himself in the centre of the canvas, of course. He is to be painted as Jupiter sitting on Olympus, with the clouds at his feet. At one side of him stands George Washington, in full regimentals, with his hand on the president's shoulder. An angel with outstretched wings hovers overhead, and is placing a laurel wreath on the president's head, crowning him — Queen of the May,...