A Little World, Volume 1King, 1877 |
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Page 150 - Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. That man shall have the help he needs when arguing with his enemies.
Page 278 - Quite five minutes now elapsed without his venturing to knock again, while he pretended to be absorbed in the contents of the newspaper he held in his hand.
Page 79 - Then the door was once more closed, the step heard again, the bang down-stairs, and then there was silence in the room, broken only by the half-suppressed sobs of little Pine, and the impatient, restless pecking of the bird in the cage.