Scribner's Magazine, 40. köideEdward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan Charles Scribners Sons, 1906 |
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... Nature plays her choic- est color - scales . The whitish mountains and pale rock surfaces catch every variation of the atmosphere - every gradation of sun and shadow , of morning and evening , and sensitively pale into silvery opals ...
... Nature plays her choic- est color - scales . The whitish mountains and pale rock surfaces catch every variation of the atmosphere - every gradation of sun and shadow , of morning and evening , and sensitively pale into silvery opals ...
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... nature , I much preferred the coffee - house to prepare myself . The stupid woman there gave me no end of trouble , for she could not understand the few Dutch The Fog Bell their markings . Ahead , a farmhouse. 26 The Magenta Village.
... nature , I much preferred the coffee - house to prepare myself . The stupid woman there gave me no end of trouble , for she could not understand the few Dutch The Fog Bell their markings . Ahead , a farmhouse. 26 The Magenta Village.
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... nature , but those of us who wished a pair of wooden klompen , and visited the shop for that purpose , soon found that shoes were a minor consideration , and fell to sketching the interior , continuing our purchasing only as an excuse ...
... nature , but those of us who wished a pair of wooden klompen , and visited the shop for that purpose , soon found that shoes were a minor consideration , and fell to sketching the interior , continuing our purchasing only as an excuse ...
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... nature is without a distinct purpose for which it has been carefully adapted through ages of experiment . From these I learned that the prong , so far from being the button on the rapier , is a hilt that protects the bare flesh farther ...
... nature is without a distinct purpose for which it has been carefully adapted through ages of experiment . From these I learned that the prong , so far from being the button on the rapier , is a hilt that protects the bare flesh farther ...
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... Nature's economic plan has been to remove all parts that cease to be of use , and so save the expense of growing and maintaining them . Thus man is losing his back or wisdom teeth since civ- ilized diet is rendering them superfluous ...
... Nature's economic plan has been to remove all parts that cease to be of use , and so save the expense of growing and maintaining them . Thus man is losing his back or wisdom teeth since civ- ilized diet is rendering them superfluous ...
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