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... hear about it over and over . " The door into the kitchen closed softly . The four at the table sat frozen . Carl laid his mush spoon on the table and touched his chin with his fingers . Then the kitchen door opened and Grandfather ...
... hear about it over and over . " The door into the kitchen closed softly . The four at the table sat frozen . Carl laid his mush spoon on the table and touched his chin with his fingers . Then the kitchen door opened and Grandfather ...
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... hear . Instead of complimenting them , Emerson was lashing out at the " sluggard intellect of this continent , " content to draw its models lazily from Europe . And he announced what Oliver Wendell Holmes later called our Intel- lectual ...
... hear . Instead of complimenting them , Emerson was lashing out at the " sluggard intellect of this continent , " content to draw its models lazily from Europe . And he announced what Oliver Wendell Holmes later called our Intel- lectual ...
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... hear a jeering " You and your old gar- den ! " What he did hear was , in its un- caring , still worse : " Yes , they're all right , I guess . " He'd show her ! He'd make her see him And with that ambition as a great farmer ! he lost ...
... hear a jeering " You and your old gar- den ! " What he did hear was , in its un- caring , still worse : " Yes , they're all right , I guess . " He'd show her ! He'd make her see him And with that ambition as a great farmer ! he lost ...
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APPROACHING AMERICAN | 1 |
Carl Sandburg Chicago | 34 |
William Saroyan The Oyster and the Pearl | 60 |
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