Harper's Magazine, Volume 140Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen Harper & Brothers, 1919 - American literature Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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Page 13
... better be good , or Aunt Tam ' ll take you up home with her , " was a threat that accomplished more in the way of discipline than all the switches that ever grew . And as the children whimpered and obeyed , so did the adults confess ...
... better be good , or Aunt Tam ' ll take you up home with her , " was a threat that accomplished more in the way of discipline than all the switches that ever grew . And as the children whimpered and obeyed , so did the adults confess ...
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... better than I. You see , I am thirty - eight and not so supple as I used to be . And lately I am trou- bled with the breath . I must be here from nine in the evening until four in the morning , dancing three times every night . The air ...
... better than I. You see , I am thirty - eight and not so supple as I used to be . And lately I am trou- bled with the breath . I must be here from nine in the evening until four in the morning , dancing three times every night . The air ...
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... better , and I struck the ground with the resilience of an iron casting of the same weight . Yet any time within the seventies I should say that one still felt young in body if not in mind ; after that one feels young oftenest in spirit ...
... better , and I struck the ground with the resilience of an iron casting of the same weight . Yet any time within the seventies I should say that one still felt young in body if not in mind ; after that one feels young oftenest in spirit ...
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... better without it . Before a certain time in my later seventies I was a quite indefati- gable pedestrian , but one night , coming out of a theater in Boston , I boldly crossed the Common toward my hotel on Beacon Hill till it began to ...
... better without it . Before a certain time in my later seventies I was a quite indefati- gable pedestrian , but one night , coming out of a theater in Boston , I boldly crossed the Common toward my hotel on Beacon Hill till it began to ...
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... better than ever , to be forced to smirk in the acceptance or refusal of the false homage offered his years in the effort to discount them for him . Let us alone , I say , and we can bear our burden ; do not add the weight of your gross ...
... better than ever , to be forced to smirk in the acceptance or refusal of the false homage offered his years in the effort to discount them for him . Let us alone , I say , and we can bear our burden ; do not add the weight of your gross ...
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