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Page 59
... stand it , as she did , without flinching . Alligators are utterly untamable . It is passages like this , together with Hughes's superb evocations of tropical landscape and of the sea , which seem almost insolent in their casualness and ...
... stand it , as she did , without flinching . Alligators are utterly untamable . It is passages like this , together with Hughes's superb evocations of tropical landscape and of the sea , which seem almost insolent in their casualness and ...
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... standing in the rain almost out of earshot , so that only the shouted words came through , and had read them , on ... stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity . Against the great abstractions Hemingway set the ...
... standing in the rain almost out of earshot , so that only the shouted words came through , and had read them , on ... stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity . Against the great abstractions Hemingway set the ...
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... stand about loafing , you two boys . Good morning , all of you . How is Father's girl today ? ' ' Quite well , ' said Griselda , giving him a startled smile , and leaning towards her mother . ' Mother , how did you sleep ? ' ' Not at ...
... stand about loafing , you two boys . Good morning , all of you . How is Father's girl today ? ' ' Quite well , ' said Griselda , giving him a startled smile , and leaning towards her mother . ' Mother , how did you sleep ? ' ' Not at ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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