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Common terms and phrasesain't asked beautiful Bedouins began Bethsaida Bixby boat breath Buck Canty Carson City cayote Christopher Colombo climb Constantinople Damascus dark dead earth eyes face feel feet Gemmi Pass gone Grangerford guns Gyptian hand head heard heart heaven Hendon horse hour Huck hundred imagine Joan of Arc Johnny Miller keep kill king learned living look man's MARK TWAIN matter mighty miles mind mummy never nigger night Old Master once pard passed Petrarch pilot poor pretty reckon river sand seemed seen shape Shepherdsons shore side sight sleep smoke sort stand steamboat stood stranger stretched talk tell thing thou thought thousand tion took tree trouble turned twain Venice wait Wandering Jew warn't watch wheel whitewash wonder young Mga popular na kasabihanPahina 68 - ... growing more and more distinct, more and more sharply defined — nearer and still nearer, and the flutter of the hoofs comes faintly to the ear — another instant a whoop and a hurrah from our upper deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away like a belated fragment of a storm... Pahina 250 - Courage Is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave ; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Pahina 200 - It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed — only a little kind of a low chuckle. Pahina 65 - The ponyrider was usually a little bit of a man, brimful of spirit and endurance. No matter what time of the day or night his watch came on, and no matter whether it was winter or summer, raining, snowing, hailing, or sleeting, or whether his "beat... Pahina 24 - ... doctor asks the questions, generally, because he can keep his countenance, and look more like an inspired idiot, and throw more imbecility into the tone of his voice than any man that lives. It comes natural to him. The guides in Genoa are delighted to secure an American party, because Americans so much wonder, and deal so much in sentiment and emotion before any relic of Columbus. Our guide there fidgeted about as if he had swallowed a spring mattress. He was full of animation — full of impatience.... Pahina 274 - We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again — and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one. Pahina 163 - Bixby lifted his voice and the weightier his adjectives grew. When he closed the window he was empty. You could have drawn a seine through his system and not caught curses enough to disturb your mother with. Presently he said to me in the gentlest way: "My boy, you must get a little memorandumbook; and every time I tell you a thing, put it down right away. Pahina 248 - Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.— Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar. Pahina 76 - Three months of camp life on Lake Tahoe would restore an Egyptian mummy to his pristine vigor, and give him an appetite like an alligator. I do not mean the oldest and driest mummies, of course, but the fresher ones. The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be? — it is the same the angels breathe. Pahina 278 - It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart ; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you. Impormasyon sa libro
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