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Page 166
... eyes , with lank hair very thinly sown upon a head , which , like bad soil , would return but a scanty harvest . He looked like Famine's eldest son just arriving to years of discretion . His long lanky legs were pulled so far through ...
... eyes , with lank hair very thinly sown upon a head , which , like bad soil , would return but a scanty harvest . He looked like Famine's eldest son just arriving to years of discretion . His long lanky legs were pulled so far through ...
Page 184
... eyes and no ears . They probably have only no- tions of what things and people are ; they accept them con ... eye unobscured by the as- sociations we bring to the contemplation of people in later 184 THE ENGLISH NOVEL.
... eyes and no ears . They probably have only no- tions of what things and people are ; they accept them con ... eye unobscured by the as- sociations we bring to the contemplation of people in later 184 THE ENGLISH NOVEL.
Page 419
... eyes , and , as the maid shut the door to , and she heard the swish of Lucy's skirts , she felt like a nun who has left the world and feels fold round her the familiar veils and the response to old devotions . The cook was whistling in ...
... eyes , and , as the maid shut the door to , and she heard the swish of Lucy's skirts , she felt like a nun who has left the world and feels fold round her the familiar veils and the response to old devotions . The cook was whistling in ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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