Nature and Human Nature, Том 1Hurst and Blackett, 1855 - Всего страниц: 388 I shall never forget when I was up to Michelimackinic. A thunderin' long word, ain't it? We call it Mackinic now for shortness. But perhaps you wouldn't understand it spelt that way, no more than I did when I was to England that Brighton means Brighthelmeston, or Sissiter, Cirencester, for the English take such liberties with words, they can't afford to let others do the same; so I give it to you both ways. Well, when I was there last, I dined with a village doctor, the greatest epicure I think I ever see in all my born days. He thought and talked of nothing else from morning till night but eatin'. |
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... look alike , or talk alike ; but being free and enlightened citizens , we jist talk as we please . " 66 Ah , my good friend , you always please when you talk , and that is more than can be said of most men . " " And so will you , " he ...
... look alike , or talk alike ; but being free and enlightened citizens , we jist talk as we please . " 66 Ah , my good friend , you always please when you talk , and that is more than can be said of most men . " " And so will you , " he ...
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... look alike , though perhaps we may think alike on some sub- jects . You was bred and born here in Nova Scotia , and not in Connecticut , and if they ask you where I was raised , tell them I warn't raised at all , but was found one fine ...
... look alike , though perhaps we may think alike on some sub- jects . You was bred and born here in Nova Scotia , and not in Connecticut , and if they ask you where I was raised , tell them I warn't raised at all , but was found one fine ...
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... looks it . He don't give utterance to this conviction . He takes it for granted all the world knows and admits it , and he is so thorougly persuaded of it himself , that , to use his own favourite phrase , he don't care a fig if folks ...
... looks it . He don't give utterance to this conviction . He takes it for granted all the world knows and admits it , and he is so thorougly persuaded of it himself , that , to use his own favourite phrase , he don't care a fig if folks ...
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... looks consaited as well as you do , but I know their use also . I have my own views of things . Let them also be as I have made them . They warn't put there for nothin . ' I have a case in pint that runs on all fours with it , as A ...
... looks consaited as well as you do , but I know their use also . I have my own views of things . Let them also be as I have made them . They warn't put there for nothin . ' I have a case in pint that runs on all fours with it , as A ...
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... look wise , when I can't drive a nail with one blow , I hammer away till I do git it in . Some folks ' heads is as hard as hackmetacks - you have to bore a hole in it first , to put the nail in to keep it from bendin ' , and then it is ...
... look wise , when I can't drive a nail with one blow , I hammer away till I do git it in . Some folks ' heads is as hard as hackmetacks - you have to bore a hole in it first , to put the nail in to keep it from bendin ' , and then it is ...
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