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| Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1897 - 392 pages
...family's. It transports him into a scene of a livelier, gayer, more diversified and interesting nature, and while he enjoys himself there, he may forget the evils of the present fully as much as if he were in an ever so disgraceful state of intoxication, with the great advantage... | |
| Books - 1901 - 140 pages
...It relieves his home of its dulness and sameness. It transports him into a livelier, and gayer, and more diversified and interesting scene, and while...there he may forget the evils of the present moment. Nay, it accompanies him to his next day's work, and if the book he has been reading be anything above... | |
| Macmillan & Ferguson - Free State (South Africa) - 1905 - 224 pages
...jases out of ten, is what drives him to the public house. In transports him into a livelier, gayer, and more diversified and interesting scene : and while...drunk, with the great advantage of finding himself next day with his money in his pocket — or at least laid out in real necessaries and comforts —... | |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Detective and mystery stories, English - 1906 - 458 pages
...entertaining book. It calls for no bodily exertion. It transports him into a livelier, and gayer, and more diversified and interesting scene, and while...there he may forget the evils of the present moment. Nay, it accompanies him to his next day's work, and gives him something to think of besides the mere... | |
| Zane Grey - American fiction - 1906 - 302 pages
...entertaining book. It calls for no bodily exertion. It transports him into a livelier, and gayer, and more diversified and interesting scene, and while...there he may forget the evils of the present moment. Nay, it accompanies him to his next day's work, and gives him something to think of besides the were... | |
| Joseph Crosby Lincoln - History - 1907 - 338 pages
...entertaining book. It calls for no bodily exertion. It transports him into a livelier, and gayer, and more diversified and interesting scene, and while...there he may forget the evils of the present moment. Nay, it accompanies him to his next day's -work, and gives him something *,o think of besides the mere... | |
| Rex Beach - Fiction - 1908 - 336 pages
...entertaining book. it calls for no bodily exertion. It transports him into a livelier, and gayer, and more diversified and interesting scene, and while...there he may forget the evils of the present moment. Nay, it accompanies him to his next day's work, and gives him something to think of besides the m>ere... | |
| Rex Beach - Alaska - 1909 - 424 pages
...calls for no bodily exertion. It transports him into a livelier, and gayer, and more di~ versified and interesting scene, and while he enjoys himself...there he may forget the evils of the present moment. Nay, it accompanies him to his next day's work, and gives him something to think of besides the mere... | |
| Clarence Edward Mulford - Cassidy, Hopalong (Fictitious character) - 1910 - 410 pages
...entertaining book, It calls for no bodily exertion. It transports him into a livelier, and gayer, and more diversified and interesting scene, and while...there he may forget the evils of the present moment. Nay, it accompanies him to his next day's work, and gives him something to think of besides the mere... | |
| Temple Scott - Books and reading - 1911 - 294 pages
...the ale-house, to his own ruin and his family's. It transports him into a livelier, and gayer, and more diversified and interesting scene, and while...great advantage of finding himself the next day with his money in his pocket, or at least laid out in real necessaries and comforts for himself and his... | |
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