United States or Christmas Island ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Its life, habits and habitat winter and summer, would have unrolled before them, and the dogs-eared and rain-stained note-book sprung open for a new entry. These, brave and ardent fellows! have long been asleep beneath the birds. Mr. Burroughs is half poet, half naturalist in his way of looking at Nature, and steers clear of the poetic vagueness in regard to species.
I have the books yet; two little, stout volumes in fine print, with the marks of wear on them, but without those dishonorable blots, or those other injuries which boys inflict upon books in resentment of their dulness, or out of mere wantonness. I was always sensitive to the maltreatment of books; I could not bear to see a book faced down or dogs-eared or broken-backed.
"I am afraid, unless you choose to discount it yourself, it may detain me a day or two till I can get it cashed." Mr. Watts looked at the bill, turned it over, and dogs-eared it with his fingers. "It will keep you a day or two?" he said, repeating the old man's words. "You have no other money with you?" "Some trifling change," responded Joseph. "Nothing to speak of."
The old book of my life was so smutched and begrimed torn, dogs-eared, and scrawled over that it was scarcely worth while to turn over a new leaf. I have rather began a new volume altogether, and trust, by God's blessing, that when `Finis' comes to be written in it, some few of the pages will bear re-perusal.
The tattered and dogs-eared, little volumes, coarsely printed and embellished by a number of rough, square woodcuts, had, he knew, a distinct value. He soon perceived that they formed a very representative selection.
One of them was covered with splashes of ink: varied here and there by barbarous caricatures of faces, in which dots and strokes represented eyes, noses, and mouths. He knew whose desk this was, and opened the cover of it. In the recess beneath were soiled tables of figures, torn maps, and dogs-eared writing books.
These petitioners call the death penalty "a relic of barbarism," which is neither conclusive nor true. What is required is not loose assertion and dogs-eared phrases, but evidence of futility, or, in lack of that, cogent reasoning.
In the beginning the sheets are still here on the table, grimy and dogs-eared and old-looking I said I wanted to tell MYSELF and the world in which I found myself, and I have done my best. But whether I have succeeded I cannot imagine. All this writing is grey now and dead and trite and unmeaning to me; some of it I know by heart. I am the last person to judge it.
'I am afraid, unless you choose to discount it yourself, it may detain me a day or two till I can get it cashed. Mr Watts looked at the bill, turned it over, and dogs-eared it with his fingers. 'It will keep you a day or two? he said, repeating the old man's words. 'You have no other money with you? 'Some trifling change, responded Joseph. 'Nothing to speak of.
That it forms rather a troublesome asset in the wealth of a library cannot be doubted. Pamphlets taken singly, will not stand upon the shelves; they will curl up, become dogs-eared, accumulate dust, and get in the way of the books. If kept in piles, as is most frequent, it is very hard to get at any one that is wanted in the mass.
Word Of The Day