This etext was produced by David Widger SKETCHES NEW AND OLD by Mark Twain CONTENTS: PREFACE MY WATCH POLITICAL ECONOMY THE JUMPING FROG JOURNALISM IN TENNESSEE THE STORY OF THE BAD LITTLE BOY THE STORY OF THE GOOD LITTLE BOY A COUPLE OF POEMS BY TWAIN A
Produced by David Widger SKETCHES NEW AND OLD by Mark Twain CONTENTS: Preface My Watch Political Economy The Jumping Frog Journalism In Tennessee The Story Of The Bad Little Boy The Story Of The Good Little Boy A Couple Of Poems By Twain And Moore Niagar
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'Please, ma'am, master wants his clean things,' replied the servant, taken off her guard. The two young men turned their faces to the window, and 'went off' like a couple of bottles of ginger-beer; the ladies put their handkerchiefs to their mouths; and little Mrs. Tibbs bustled out...
'Who thinks of rowing in a punt? One has to punt it. I will go with you; my pole is there--or else one can use a wooden spade.''With a spade it won't be easy; you won't touch the bottom perhaps in some places,' said Vladimir.'It's true; it won't be easy.'I sat ...
said one of the girls. "I should think you would get work away. I live in Boston. Why, it's so awful quiet! nothing but the water, and the wind, when it blows; and I think either of them is worse than nothing. And only this little bit of a rocky place! I should want to ...
The two young men turned their faces to the window, and ‘went off’ like a couple of bottles of ginger-beer; the ladies put their handkerchiefs to their mouths; and little Mrs. Tibbs bustled out of the room to give Tibbs his clean linen,—and the servant warning. Mr. Calton, the ...
The Indians used to streak their faces with paint.印第安人过去常用颜料在脸上涂条纹。 Why did you streak the tree?你为什么在树上刻条纹? 21 profane adj.亵神的,亵渎的;vt.亵渎,玷污 参考例句: He doesn't dare to profane the name of God.他不敢亵渎上帝之名。 His profane language annoyed us...
Here, too, were those grotesque faces which always grin at you from the projections146 of monkish architecture, as if the builders had gone mad with their own deep solemnity, or dreaded147 such a catastrophe148, unless permitted to throw in something ineffably149 absurd. Originally, it is ...
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