O. Henry: (William Sidney Porter)Martin and Hoyt Company, 1921 - 1 pagine |
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Pagina 13
... knew words better than he or felt more instinctively their limitations as well as their possibilities . Words had more than meaning to O. Henry : they had flavor , a flavor unknown to Noah Webster , but recognized by every poet and ...
... knew words better than he or felt more instinctively their limitations as well as their possibilities . Words had more than meaning to O. Henry : they had flavor , a flavor unknown to Noah Webster , but recognized by every poet and ...
Pagina 16
... knew him and loved him . It is O. Henry , too . But one note is lacking . We knew that in the Greensboro days childhood and womanhood evoked all the knightliness of his nature . But we did not know and the world did not know that ...
... knew him and loved him . It is O. Henry , too . But one note is lacking . We knew that in the Greensboro days childhood and womanhood evoked all the knightliness of his nature . But we did not know and the world did not know that ...
Pagina 16
... knew you was a blame Yankee the minute I laid eyes on you . ' 66 " Don't re - open the chasm , Doc , ' I begs him . " Any Yankeeness I may have is geographical ; and , as far as I am concerned , a Southerner is as good as a Filipino any ...
... knew you was a blame Yankee the minute I laid eyes on you . ' 66 " Don't re - open the chasm , Doc , ' I begs him . " Any Yankeeness I may have is geographical ; and , as far as I am concerned , a Southerner is as good as a Filipino any ...
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... knew -by saving twenty cents a week instead of ten , in - let's see -Oh , it would run into years ! But there was a second- hand store in Seventh Avenue where- Somebody knocked at the door . Dulcie opened it . The landlady stood there ...
... knew -by saving twenty cents a week instead of ten , in - let's see -Oh , it would run into years ! But there was a second- hand store in Seventh Avenue where- Somebody knocked at the door . Dulcie opened it . The landlady stood there ...
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... knew that General Kitchener was away over in Japan , lead- ing his army against the savage Turks ; and he would never step out of his gilt frame for her . Yet one look from him had vanquished Piggy that night . Yes , for that night ...
... knew that General Kitchener was away over in Japan , lead- ing his army against the savage Turks ; and he would never step out of his gilt frame for her . Yet one look from him had vanquished Piggy that night . Yes , for that night ...
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O. Henry: Address Delivered at the Dedication of the O. Henry Memorial in ... Charles Alphonso Smith Visualizzazione estratti - 1915 |
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ain't ALPHONSO SMITH American asked Austin Barnard O'Keefe beautiful Benvenuto Benvenuto Cellini blunder called calomel characters Christmas City Coney Island Confederate dinner dollar and eighty-seven dollars a week dollars per week door Doubleday dresser Dulcie's eighty-seven cents environment eyes flavor flute Four Million furnished room gifts girls give going Greensboro hair heart Henry's humor human James Dillingham Young Jeff Jim's kind Kitchener knew landlady Latin-American lived look magi Malaprop Mark Twain minutes nation never North Carolina pennies Piggy plot powder quick ranch release Roads of Destiny Rolling Stone says the consul seemed shining shot six dollars sold SOUTHERN LITERATURE Southerner spell stage Stars and Bars Stonewall Jackson stood story surprise talk tell Texas theme there's thought tion Uncle Sam watch William Muldoon William Sidney Porter window wise wonderful words World Yank York
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Pagina 15 - Hesperian curls — the front of Job himself ! — An eye, like March, to threaten at command ! — A station, like Harry Mercury, new — '* Something about kissing — on a hill— however, the similitude struck me directly.