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Updated: June 17, 2025
The man had for years been paralyzed; he could do little more than to raise to that book-shelf his trembling hand, and take from it one or other of the volumes. When this helpless veteran learned my name, he uttered a strange cry, and his face worked with eager emotion; the wife of his broad-shouldered son brought me to him in his corner; his old eyes glowed as they perused me.
A short, staccato, muffled report split the heavy silence... and a little round hole appeared in the woodwork of the book-shelf before which, an instant earlier, M. Max had been standing in the woodwork of that shelf, which had been upon a level with his head. In one giant leap he hurled himself across the room ... as a second bullet pierced the yellow silk of the ottoman.
Weyman knows the eighteenth century from top to bottom, and could any time be more suitable for the writer of romance?... There is only one way to define the subtle charm and distinction of this book, and that is to say that it deserves a place on the book-shelf beside those dainty volumes in which Mr.
A large lamp was suspended from the ceiling in the centre of the room and was quaintly, if not grotesquely, shaded; while other lamps flanked by composition metal reflectors concentrated light upon the Girl's bureau, the book-shelf and mantel, leaving the remainder of the room in variant shadow.
This inspires me with very low ideas of University training." Herewith he kicked over his book-shelf and, putting on his hat, hastened from the house to the club of which he was a member. In such a place of mundane resort he hoped to find some man of good counsel and a shrewd experience in life.
"The first town they came to there was a blue bride chamber, He clothed her on with silk, and belted her with amber." "Come and help me down with the toboggin, Bertie. It is a-top of the book-shelf," and they dragged down a mysterious structure of maple wood, having the appearance of a plank six feet long by two wide, and turned up at one end.
He cared now for nothing in the world but to read all day long, and half the night; to read anything and everything, from the hair-raising cowboy tales Davy Munn loaned him, to the ponderous histories from the minister's book-shelf.
Speak not of fame to me, D'Argens, when from yonder book-shelf I see the name of Athalie. "Herein I recognize the peaceful, noble tastes of my king," said D'Argens, deeply moved; "years of hardship and victory have not changed him the conquering hero is the loving friend and the wise philosopher.
The enticement of the far-away is mostly in your imagination; let your eyes and your imagination play once more on the old familiar birds and objects." One season in my walks to the woods I was on the lookout for a natural bracket among the tree-branches, to be used in supporting a book-shelf.
They laughed with their foreheads on the tables, or on the floor; laughed at length, curled over the backs of chairs or clinging to a book-shelf; laughed themselves limp. And in the middle of it Orrin entered on behalf of the house. "Don't mind us, Orrin; sit down. You don't know how we respect and admire you.
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