Harper's Magazine, Volume 128Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen Harper & Brothers, 1914 - American literature Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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... mind to pinch him to make him do it again . " " I guess after you've heard him howl a few times , you won't like it so much , " Mattie said . Then , suddenly , came the ultimatum : " You can choose between your baby and me . " She was ...
... mind to pinch him to make him do it again . " " I guess after you've heard him howl a few times , you won't like it so much , " Mattie said . Then , suddenly , came the ultimatum : " You can choose between your baby and me . " She was ...
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... mind and eye alike have all day long been living in two worlds so far away from each other , yet such strangely close com- panions , set dream- ing alike by some shat- tered castle against the sky - line , or by the first shoots of the ...
... mind and eye alike have all day long been living in two worlds so far away from each other , yet such strangely close com- panions , set dream- ing alike by some shat- tered castle against the sky - line , or by the first shoots of the ...
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... mind was tuned up to him , then you were let in . It's no use speculating what he would have been if he'd never written anything . You cannot detach him from his writ- ings , nor would he have wished to be detached . I suppose he would ...
... mind was tuned up to him , then you were let in . It's no use speculating what he would have been if he'd never written anything . You cannot detach him from his writ- ings , nor would he have wished to be detached . I suppose he would ...
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... mind , as no native would have em- phasized it . Rachel shared the general estimate of the sitting - room . She appreciated its charm , and admitted to herself that her first vision of it , rather less than a month before , had indeed ...
... mind , as no native would have em- phasized it . Rachel shared the general estimate of the sitting - room . She appreciated its charm , and admitted to herself that her first vision of it , rather less than a month before , had indeed ...
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... mind . The ability to support himself , the power to make money , is certainly not the most important quality for this boy to possess . Very commonly , especially in the en- dowed institutions of the East , money- making in his family ...
... mind . The ability to support himself , the power to make money , is certainly not the most important quality for this boy to possess . Very commonly , especially in the en- dowed institutions of the East , money- making in his family ...
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