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Updated: June 22, 2025
They are several inches in length, and arranged with booklets at their lower ends; floating near the bottom, they thus catch upon it, and in a few weeks' growth push the shoot to the level of the water, thus affording a foundation for a new plantation.
"No, no!" she broke in merrily. "I didn't mean our Literature! We are quite abnormal. But the booklets the little thrilling romances, where the Murder comes at page fifteen, and the Wedding at page forty surely they are due to Steam?"
The thin vegetable parchment lately in vogue for some books and booklets is too unsubstantial for anything but a lady's boudoir, where it may have its little day "a thing of beauty," but by no means "a joy forever." Sheepskin once the full binding for most school-books, and for a large share of law and miscellaneous works for libraries, is now but little used, except in its disguised forms.
"You are all wet." "I've brought the booklets." "Give them here, give them to me!" cried the mother impatiently. "Directly," replied the girl. She untied her skirt and shook it, and like leaves from a tree, down fluttered a lot of thin paper parcels on the floor around her. The mother picked them up, laughing, and said: "I was wondering what made you so stout.
Some of the company sat on the ground or reclined in hammocks swung from the branches of the trees, while others amused themselves around a wide flat rock on which were to be seen playing-cards, a chess-board, booklets, cowry shells, and pebbles. They showed the cayman to the curate, but he seemed inattentive until they told him that the gaping wound had been inflicted by Ibarra.
Suddenly the disgruntled youth spied Lieut. Bradbury. "A moment," he cried. As the young officer turned, Fanning, without a word of greeting, bellowed out: "Ain't it against the rules for a girl to drive an aeroplane in this contest." "Not that I am aware of," rejoined the officer. He reached over to a stack of pink booklets. "Here's a book of rules. Read it."
"You'll find little books on the table here, those of you who haven't got 'em," he said, pointing to a little pile of red-covered booklets at his side. "We'll sing the 272nd. "`Sing them over again to me, Wonderful words of life!" Really, reader, it is not easy to convey in words the effect of the singing of that congregation! Nothing that we on land are accustomed to can compare with it.
She entered with a bundle of old manuscripts under her arm, torn and tumbled booklets of various shapes and sizes. These she plumped down upon the rickety table, and herself upon the nearest chair. "Put them in your box, my dear," said Mrs. Peedles. "They'll come in useful to you later on." I glanced at the bundle.
His favourite companions are Shelley, Wordsworth, and a bull terrier, and he is said to play billiards with "grim earnestness." In 1907 he published a tiny volume called The Last Blackbird, and in 1917 another and tinier one called Poems. During this decade he printed in a few paper booklets, which some day will be valuable curiosities, separate pieces such as Eve, The Bull, The Mystery.
"You can paint, and you can write" she was judging by some of the booklets about Blue Sea and verses about herself and clippings of articles done in his old Chicago newspaper days, which he showed her once in a scrapbook in his apartment "and you can run that office, and you were an advertising manager and an art director." She lifted up her face and looked into his eyes admiringly.
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