Times Have ChangedRobert M. McBride, 1923 - 300 σελίδες |
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afternoon ain't asked Atlee Aunt Cordelia Aunt Ida back to Wynwood better breakfast Broadway Byron Blish club clubhouse Corliss corridor costume Cousin Lorna crazy crazy quilt crowd Dan's dance diamonds dinner dollars Donovan door driver eiderdown eyes feel fellow felt Fingerstone Florodora friends Gabe Gooch gang girl go back gone guess hand high school Hollingsworth hour hurry husband Irene Irene's Joliet jorie June kimono knew last night live looked Lorna Lockwood luck Mallard Marjorie Marjorie's Mark O'Rell Markie married McCurdy McGarrah Merrick Road morning Mother McCurdy's O'Rell's Oceanmere old days Palette pocket police policeman pretty quilt Redman roll the bones seemed seen stop street suitcase suppose sure talk taxi Teener tell there's thing thought to-morrow to-night told town trigonometry turned Uncle wait walk watch What's wife woman wonderful girl Zella
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Σελίδα 222 - ... child, what can I do for you ? " " Pray for me, New Papa ! " and she lifted her eyes upon him with a tender, appealing look. " Always, always, Adaly ! " " Tell me, New Papa, — tell me honestly, — is it not true that I can call no one mother, — that I never could ? " The Doctor trembled : he would have given ten years of his life to have been able to challenge her story, to disabuse her mind of the belief which he saw was fastened past all recall.
Σελίδα 115 - ... learning what to do, just beginning to get to know you if they happened to bump into you in the rain at 3 o'clock in the morning. The training of the individual soldier, what he learns about his own personal hygiene and his personal skill is but a small part of it. The big part of it is getting to know the man on his right and the man on his left and what they are supposed to do. That is what Colonel MacArthur called the soldier's faith.
Σελίδα 1 - He and Marjorie had been married almost a year, and he had never been late for dinner yet. Now and then a thoroughly submerged but not yet entirely drowned fragment of his personality whispered that this was too good to last; he'd have to begin being late for dinner some time.
Σελίδα 205 - Take it or leave it. And if you don't take it I'll break your face.