Harper's Magazine, Volume 145Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen Harper & Brothers, 1922 - American literature Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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... watched the papers to see if anything relishing might happen to the Ahkoond of Swat or the Sandjak of Novi Bazar , or any other native potentate . Within a couple of days I got what I wanted in the follow- ing item , which I need hardly ...
... watched the papers to see if anything relishing might happen to the Ahkoond of Swat or the Sandjak of Novi Bazar , or any other native potentate . Within a couple of days I got what I wanted in the follow- ing item , which I need hardly ...
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... watched them , as they stood listening to the revelations of the detective , the more puzzled he was by their attitude . Fisher seemed grieved by the death of his uncle , but hardly shocked at it ; the older man seemed almost openly ...
... watched them , as they stood listening to the revelations of the detective , the more puzzled he was by their attitude . Fisher seemed grieved by the death of his uncle , but hardly shocked at it ; the older man seemed almost openly ...
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... watched over by San Antonio , sus- pended in blue satin on the wall . San- tiago has thoughtfully provided all necessities , even a glass pitcher of drinking water . Too sleepy to do more than note the main events of the day . The first ...
... watched over by San Antonio , sus- pended in blue satin on the wall . San- tiago has thoughtfully provided all necessities , even a glass pitcher of drinking water . Too sleepy to do more than note the main events of the day . The first ...
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... watched a man who was carried out in a fainting condition to see how they managed it , with the lively interest of one who was about to go through the same scene himself . The heat from the gas around him was intolerable . After the ...
... watched a man who was carried out in a fainting condition to see how they managed it , with the lively interest of one who was about to go through the same scene himself . The heat from the gas around him was intolerable . After the ...
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... building in which the Sokoloffs now lived was a far less elegant " walk - up " apartment house . Rebecca had watched the janitress , a thin , faded creature who was eternally scrubbing hallways or 124 HARPER'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
... building in which the Sokoloffs now lived was a far less elegant " walk - up " apartment house . Rebecca had watched the janitress , a thin , faded creature who was eternally scrubbing hallways or 124 HARPER'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
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