O. Henry: (William Sidney Porter)Martin and Hoyt Company, 1921 - 1 pagine |
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Pagina 16
... quick and vivid saliency . It takes the place of more elaborate description as well as of more detailed enumeration . When he says the outing was to include " parks , picnics , and Pilsener , " I detect an almost parsimonious economy of ...
... quick and vivid saliency . It takes the place of more elaborate description as well as of more detailed enumeration . When he says the outing was to include " parks , picnics , and Pilsener , " I detect an almost parsimonious economy of ...
Pagina 16
... quick coming together of the two parts after the lightning has flashed between . In Roads of Destiny there is a different ending for each of the three roads tra- versed , but each ending couches in the great question with which the ...
... quick coming together of the two parts after the lightning has flashed between . In Roads of Destiny there is a different ending for each of the three roads tra- versed , but each ending couches in the great question with which the ...
Pagina 16
... quick gaze that sought to disguise its own penetration - there was no change here . But he was tired and looked it . He did not complain but asked eagerly about our boyhood friends , recalling incidents and sayings and little funny ...
... quick gaze that sought to disguise its own penetration - there was no change here . But he was tired and looked it . He did not complain but asked eagerly about our boyhood friends , recalling incidents and sayings and little funny ...
Pagina 17
... quick oven . " Then I gives a silver dollar to one of the guards to send for the United States consul . He comes around in pajamas , with a pair of glasses on his nose and a dozen or two inside of him . " I'm to be shot in two weeks ...
... quick oven . " Then I gives a silver dollar to one of the guards to send for the United States consul . He comes around in pajamas , with a pair of glasses on his nose and a dozen or two inside of him . " I'm to be shot in two weeks ...
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... quick , " said Della . Oh , and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings . Forget the hashed metaphor . She was ransacking the stores for Jim's present . She found it at last . It surely had been made for Jim and no one else . There ...
... quick , " said Della . Oh , and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings . Forget the hashed metaphor . She was ransacking the stores for Jim's present . She found it at last . It surely had been made for Jim and no one else . There ...
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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.