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Page 303 - Voice and literature, 245-246 « 14 DAY USE RETURN TO DESK FROM WHICH BORROWE1 LOAN DEPT. This book is due on the last date stamped below, or on the date to which renewed. Renewed books are subject to immediate recall.
Page 303 - This book is set (on the Linotype) in Original Old Style of the history of which very little is known; in practically its present form, it has been used for many years for fine book and magazine work. The design of its lower case letters would indicate a derivation from English and Dutch Old Styles of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the period which reached its culmination in the work of William Caslon. The blackness of its capitals shows clearly, however, that their design was modified...
Page 290 - Behold, he cometh with the clouds ; and every eye shall see him, and they that pierced him ; and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn over him. Even so, Amen.
Page 291 - And the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and within : and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God, the Almighty, which was and which is and which is to come.
Page 47 - Hale, who when about to be hanged regretted that he had but one life to give for his country...
Page 38 - Ord , of the army, for the pur•pose of arresting two horse thieres and recovering the horses that are reported to have been stolen from the neighborhood of Santa Cruz and San Jose, and hid way in the mountains. I desire that you will cause as many of the citizens as you can to turn out and go with Lieutenant Ord and assist in recovering the stolen horses and...
Page 163 - Coarse rice for food, water for drink, and one's bended arm for a pillow, even in the midst of these there is happiness ; but riches and honours gained by injustice are to me like fleeting clouds.
Page 175 - Now and then a ten cent ticket in the Green Star Night Time Lottery brought in a few surprise dollars. The domino game at the Cavern of Wisdom, where Jim Sin enjoyed the companionship of a select and exclusive group of his countrymen, meant the loss or gain of not more than a dollar or two each month. December and July were good months, because the first brought a Christmas gift of cash from Dr. Holland and the hot months meant presents of currency from whatever house guests were entertained at the...
Page 200 - The lips of Jim Sin's opponent curled in a scornful smile. "You overplayed your hand," he advised. "Trust a skinny fool from Canton to discover trouble when he depends on ... let us say . . . four lady queens." Gow Bun, restraining his exultation, spread his cards on the table. He displayed four kings. "To rule the blue chip empire of your . . . queens!
Page 37 - They starved for a while. Then in a great port where ships from the western seas assembled to trade the products of far lands for the treasures of China, Lin listened to a labor contractor's lure, and within the week, in company with a hundred other deluded slaves he and Chun Yuey, who was dressed as a man, were battened in the foul slave-pens of a ship bound for Callao.