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Page 65
... with another pin . They performed the manipulation so rapidly that the children could not understand at all how it was done . Indeed they seemed to be just moving the bobbins about this way and that 6 * THE LACE - MAKERS . 65.
... with another pin . They performed the manipulation so rapidly that the children could not understand at all how it was done . Indeed they seemed to be just moving the bobbins about this way and that 6 * THE LACE - MAKERS . 65.
Page 67
... seemed not to have been very richly rewarded for her life - long toil , for though she was comfortably clothed , her dress and her dwelling were of a very coarse and humble char- acter . Mrs. Morelle wished to buy some lace of this ...
... seemed not to have been very richly rewarded for her life - long toil , for though she was comfortably clothed , her dress and her dwelling were of a very coarse and humble char- acter . Mrs. Morelle wished to buy some lace of this ...
Page 69
... seemed more intent in looking at her , than at the laces which his aunt was admiring so much . " Isn't she pretty ? " said Mrs. Morelle , at length , seeing how much Grimkie seemed to be taken THE LACE - MAKERS . 69.
... seemed more intent in looking at her , than at the laces which his aunt was admiring so much . " Isn't she pretty ? " said Mrs. Morelle , at length , seeing how much Grimkie seemed to be taken THE LACE - MAKERS . 69.
Page 70
... seemed much pleased to hear this , and he looked toward Mademoiselle Pagny with such a significant ex- pression in his countenance , that the lady know- ing that Grimkie was speaking of her , asked him what he said . So the young man ...
... seemed much pleased to hear this , and he looked toward Mademoiselle Pagny with such a significant ex- pression in his countenance , that the lady know- ing that Grimkie was speaking of her , asked him what he said . So the young man ...
Page 71
... seemed to me really did deserve it . The truth is , that when we leave our own coun- try and go to visit a foreign land , we are in some sense the guests of the people of that land , and the same rule of politeness which should prevent ...
... seemed to me really did deserve it . The truth is , that when we leave our own coun- try and go to visit a foreign land , we are in some sense the guests of the people of that land , and the same rule of politeness which should prevent ...
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Page 43 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 33 - Lord ivas with me and made all things easy, though my dear friend and I were separated one at one end of the town and the other at the other, and both under locks and bolts ; the said Davis swearing desperately that we should never come out nor see one another again all his time. And yet in two weeks' time he let me out again and her also.
Page 183 - Grimkie said that the best thing they could do would be to go and see the Castle of Mont Orgueil.
Page 193 - Florence established herself upon the sofa, and the two boys in arm-chairs near the fire, each with a large slice of bread and butter in one hand and a piece of cheese in the other, and their tumblers of milk on corners of the table within reach.
Page 69 - There was a large table in the middle of the room, with broad boxes filled with laces upon it, and other boxes in cases about the room.
Page 80 - ... strongly support Senator Mitchell's bill, S. 1639. The establishment of a Board such as is proposed in your bill is vitally necessary in the interest of military and commercial expansion of our national air power. If is an open secret that in the 1930's technological improvements placed German air power far in advance of that of any other nation in the world, and the stern necessity of mastering that power, rather than our own foresight, was the determining factor in World War II. Certainly,...