Modes and MoralsC. Scribner's Sons, 1920 - 276 psl. |
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... one's buying " Her Dear De- sire " -it was of sad - colored chiffon . But I could not imagine any one's buying " After- wards " ; and it was inconceivable that the name should help to sell it . I am bound to say that eventually I found ...
... one's buying " Her Dear De- sire " -it was of sad - colored chiffon . But I could not imagine any one's buying " After- wards " ; and it was inconceivable that the name should help to sell it . I am bound to say that eventually I found ...
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... one's self that the woman who refuses an invitation to dinner because her best frock is two years old fears criticism of her taste , than that she fears an estimate of her dressmaker's bill . The code is more alluring . But even ...
... one's self that the woman who refuses an invitation to dinner because her best frock is two years old fears criticism of her taste , than that she fears an estimate of her dressmaker's bill . The code is more alluring . But even ...
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... one's income must constitute one's claim to distinction , and , obviously , one can give mannerly evidence of one's income only by the amount visibly , not audibly , spent . How more silently and more visibly than by personal adornment ...
... one's income must constitute one's claim to distinction , and , obviously , one can give mannerly evidence of one's income only by the amount visibly , not audibly , spent . How more silently and more visibly than by personal adornment ...
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... one's mouth . It is not simple , no . The only really " simple " food - stuff is manna . Imagine , for example , calling anything simple that has to be shot out of a cannon by way of preparation . In point of fact , very few people eat ...
... one's mouth . It is not simple , no . The only really " simple " food - stuff is manna . Imagine , for example , calling anything simple that has to be shot out of a cannon by way of preparation . In point of fact , very few people eat ...
60 psl.
... one's self in liveried lackeys ? Not , obviously , for the mis- tress ; and it is surely simpler to be an adequate second footman than to be an adequate bonne- à - tout - faire . We should really simplify life by having more servants ...
... one's self in liveried lackeys ? Not , obviously , for the mis- tress ; and it is surely simpler to be an adequate second footman than to be an adequate bonne- à - tout - faire . We should really simplify life by having more servants ...
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Modes and Morals By Katharine Fullerton Gerould. (Inhalt: The New ... Katharine Fullerton Gerould Visos knygos peržiūra - 1920 |
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236 psl. - So to the land our hearts we give Till the sure magic strike, And Memory, Use, and Love make live Us and our fields alike That deeper than our speech and thought, Beyond our reason's sway, Clay of the pit whence we were wrought Yearns to its fellow-clay.
238 psl. - Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
27 psl. - In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, And their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs...
135 psl. - Julia's hair curls naturally," returned Miss Temple, still more quietly. "Naturally! Yes, but we are not to conform to nature. I wish these girls to be the children of Grace; and why that abundance?
228 psl. - It was our fault, and our very great fault and now we must turn it to use ; We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse! So the more we work and the less we talk the better results we shall get We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!
230 psl. - Arid, aloof, incurious, unthinking, unthanking, gelt, Will ye loose your schools to flout them till their brow-beat columns melt? Will ye pray them or preach them, or print them, or ballot them back from your shore? Will your workmen issue a mandate to bid them strike no more?
234 psl. - Eyeless, noseless, and lipless, asking a dole at the door, Matun, the old blind beggar, he tells it o'er and o'er; Fumbling and feeling the rifles, warming his hands at the flame, Hearing our careless white men talk of the morrow's game; Over and over the story, ending as he began : " There is no truce with Adam-zad, the Bear that looks like a man!
183 psl. - Dare to be a Daniel ! Dare to stand alone ! Dare to have a purpose firm ! Dare to make it known!
185 psl. - At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light, and the burden of my heart rolled away, (rolled a-way,) it was there by faith I received my sight, and now I am happy all the day!
235 psl. - God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all...