 | Teng-Hwee Lee - English language - 1938 - 416 pages
...of your life but to stare people] in, the face and to. amuse' yourself with watching all that goes on in the kitchen Think I beseech!' you how you would...like to be shut up for life in this dark closet" and to wag backwards and forwards year after year as I do. —"THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM." \Complaint:... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 466 pages
...do, all your life, but to stare people in the face, and to amuse yourself with watching all that goes on in the kitchen. Think, I beseech you, how you would...like to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and to wag backward and forward, year after year, as I do." 3. "As to that," said the dial, "is there not... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Readers - 1867 - 368 pages
...days of your life, but to stare people in the face, and to amuse yourself with watching all that goes on in the kitchen ! Think, I beseech you, how you...like to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and to wag backwards and forwards year after year, as I do." 4. " As to that," said the dial, " is there... | |
 | Poetry - 1870 - 264 pages
...goes on in the kitchen ! Think how you would like to he shut up for life in this dark closet, and to wag backwards and forwards year after year, as I do." " As to that," said the dial, " is there not a window in your house, for you to look through ? " " For all that," resumed the pendulum, " it is very... | |
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is there not a window in your house on purpose for you to look through?" " For all that," resumed the pendulum, "it is very dark here: and although there is a window, I dare not stop, even for an instant, to look out. 
