The Strand Magazine, 53 tomas

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G. Newnes, 1917

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44 psl. - ... if he intended to use it to good purpose ; and upon the decisive evidence, obtained by the Prefect, that it was not hidden within the limits of that dignitary's ordinary search — the more satisfied I became that, to conceal this letter, the Minister had resorted to the comprehensive and sagacious expedient of not attempting to conceal it at all.
357 psl. - TANNER. The will is yours then ! The trap was laid from the beginning. ANN [concentrating all her magic] From the beginning — from our childhood — for both of us — by the Life Force. TANNER. I will not marry you. I will not marry you. ANN. Oh, you will, you will. TANNER. I tell you, no, no, no. ANN. I tell you, yes, yes, yes. TANNER. No. ANN [coaxing — imploring — almost exhausted] Yes. Before it is too late for repentance. Yes. TANNER [struck by the echo from the past] When did all this...
511 psl. - Their abstraction from the objects among which they live, or rather their conviction that those objects have all come into existence in express subservience to fowls, has so enchanted me, that I have made them the subject of many journeys at divers hours. After careful observation of the two lords...
511 psl. - I know a low fellow, originally of a good family from Dorking, who takes his whole establishment of wives, in single file, in at the door of the Jug Department of a disorderly tavern near the Haymarket...
511 psl. - That anything born of an egg and invested with wings, should have got to the pass that it hops contentedly down a ladder into a cellar, and calls that going home, is a circumstance so amazing as to leave one nothing more in this connexion to wonder at.
18 psl. - It is to be remembered in explanation of this disorganisation that it was the first experience of these poison tactics, and that the troops engaged received the gas in a very much more severe form than our own men on the right of Langemarck. For a time there was a gap five miles broad in the front of the position of the Allies, and there were many hours during which there was no substantial force between the Germans and Ypres. They wasted their time, however, in consolidating their ground, and the...
89 psl. - Sakal asked where his companion was. " He is just standing without here," said the other, " and he shall come in presently." Accordingly he went out ; and returned, leading his ass after him by the halter. " This is my companion," said he, "and you must shave him.
87 psl. - In short, after many words and much altercation, the overbearing barber seized the pack-saddle, wood and all, and sent away the poor peasant in great distress. He immediately ran...
196 psl. - Wooster." overpowering sort of dashed female, not so very tall but making up for it by measuring about six feet from the OP to the Prompt Side. She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season. She had bright, bulging eyes and a lot of yellow hair, and when she spoke she showed about fifty-seven front teeth. She was one of those women who kind of numb a fellow's faculties. She made me feel as if...
89 psl. - The wood-cutter immediately went to the Caliph, was admitted to his presence, and related his case. "Tis well,' said the commander of the faithful : ' bring Ali Sakal and his razors to me this instant,' he exclaimed to one of his officers ; and in the course of ten minutes the barber stood before him. ' Why do you refuse to shave this man's companion ?' said the Caliph to the barber : * was not that your agreement?

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