The Primal LawM. Kennerley, 1915 - 342 pages |
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Page 251 - EDEN BOWER. IT was Lilith the wife of Adam : (Eden bower's in flower?) Not a drop of her blood was human, But she was made like a soft sweet woman.
Page 85 - Ma, I can't practice when you stand there like that," I said one day. She retreated to the kitchen and made loud noises with the pots and pans. When the crashing stopped, I could see out of the corner of my eye that she was standing in the doorway.
Page 74 - he didn't want to tell me anything." The officer then said to him : [T]he hell with it ... If you don't want to tell me anything, you don't have to. The man you shot knows who shot him ; the man that was with him knows who shot him ; and I have a completely disinterested witness who also knows who shot him, and she is the one who told me your name. . . . It was then that he said Spriggs said "All right, I shot the man...
Page 34 - There they go over the ridge," and he pointed to where the buffalo calf was just passing over the top of a ridge. For a moment Pom stared at the running calf, as if he could not believe the evidence of his own eyes, then he glared at the gun lying on the ground. "Den dat dar no-'count gun not kill dat dar buntin' buffafeller calf aftah he's done butted dis niggah all ober cr'ation?
Page 271 - She would have followed him to the ends of the earth, if he had asked her, or brushed his boots for him, for all to see.
Page 298 - Giron from her hotel, and learned that he was out of town, and would not return for two days, so there was nothing for her to do but wait.
Page 128 - She gave the best years of her life to a man who loved her, — and he broke her heart 1 " " Mary, you can't judge by her experience.
Page 221 - It was just that he should suffer, for he had killed her as surely as if he had held the revolver at her breast.
Page 247 - He did not glance at her again, but try as she might, she could not keep her eyes from straying back to his face.