Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsClara Elizabeth Fanning, Halsey William Wilson H.W. Wilson Company, 1916 - 483 pages |
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... turning on the compilers . To extend the usefulness of such pseudo - cataloging , cross references , similar and dissimilar to those of a library card catalog , have been included . Should a large number of the inclusions look familiar ...
... turning on the compilers . To extend the usefulness of such pseudo - cataloging , cross references , similar and dissimilar to those of a library card catalog , have been included . Should a large number of the inclusions look familiar ...
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... turned over last night is the author . " Suit the action to the word , the word to the action , with this special observance , that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature . Shakespeare . To wake the soul by tender strokes of art , To ...
... turned over last night is the author . " Suit the action to the word , the word to the action , with this special observance , that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature . Shakespeare . To wake the soul by tender strokes of art , To ...
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... turned toward the fowl and angrily exclaimed : " Don't be so dern quick to jump at conclusions . Wait till you see the show . " - K . A. Bisbee . When William H. Crane was younger and less discreet he had a vaunting ambition to play ...
... turned toward the fowl and angrily exclaimed : " Don't be so dern quick to jump at conclusions . Wait till you see the show . " - K . A. Bisbee . When William H. Crane was younger and less discreet he had a vaunting ambition to play ...
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... moodily read to the bottom of the list , he turned to an unobtrusive young man who had been watching him out of the corner of his eye . " Say , have you seen this show ? " he asked . " Sure , " replied the young man . " TOASTER'S HANDBOOK ...
... moodily read to the bottom of the list , he turned to an unobtrusive young man who had been watching him out of the corner of his eye . " Say , have you seen this show ? " he asked . " Sure , " replied the young man . " TOASTER'S HANDBOOK ...
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... turned to the subject of age . “ I attribute my many years , " said Dr. Bigelow , " to the fact that I have been most abstemious . I have eaten sparingly , and have not used tobacco , and have taken little exercise . " " It is just the ...
... turned to the subject of age . “ I attribute my many years , " said Dr. Bigelow , " to the fact that I have been most abstemious . I have eaten sparingly , and have not used tobacco , and have taken little exercise . " " It is just the ...
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