TreasureGeorge H. Doran Company, 1915 - 360 pages |
Common terms and phrases
Amos asked bargain better Bissle Blackpool chair chap d'you damn daugh daughter David Ewins dead dear Dolly door drunk Everkith Ewins and Tugwell Ewins looked Ewins's eyes father feel five pounds flummuxed fool Ganton George Harvey Gertrude girl goin gone hand happy Harvey's Higgins's idea joke Jupp kind kissed knew Lance Harvey Lance's laughed Lavengro Lina machine Manchester Manchester Grammar School Manchester Guardian Marie Corelli married Mester Ewins mind Miss Dorothy Miss Hollins Miss Whitelaw mother never nice nodded nowt Oliver Twist paper patent penny quietly Ralph Higgins reckon round Ruritania seemed shook his head smiled smoking cap summat supper suppose talk tell There's thing Thomas Ewins thought told Tom Fraser took treasure Treasure Island walked What's whispered wife woman wonder worth
Popular passages
Page 46 - If one side of a triangle be produced, the exterior angle is greater than either of the interior, and opposite angles.
Page 78 - There is an old saying that if you take care of the pence, the pounds will take care of themselves.
Page 14 - ... neither. He climbed softly over the back fence and crept up to the back door, but it was fast; then he crept round to the front door, and that was fast, too. There was no light in the house, and it was perfectly still. All of a sudden it struck him that he could sleep in the stable-loft, and he thought what a fool he was not to have thought of it before. The notion brightened him up so that he got the gourd that hung beside the well-curb and took it out to the stable with him; for now he remembered...
Page 113 - Lamb (Charles) Elia. Essays which have appeared under that Signature in the London Magazine, London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1823.
Page 78 - ... The whispered tragedy invested her, in our childish mind, with a mysterious glamer that set her apart as something wierd and uncanny.) " 'James Catlett murdered when a young man by a favorite slave.' This was perhaps the most intensely dramatic situation ever felt in Gloucester County. "James Catlett was the only son of his mother, who was a widow. He was just returned from college, brilliant, handsome and rich, with life in its fulness spread out before him. "His bodyservant, a mulatto fellow,...
Page 63 - You don't have weddings every day in the family, and if I do a thing at all I like to do it well.
Page 262 - He did not wish to appear to attach too much importance to the pecuniary side of the business, for he had his share of tact. "Better for your daughter to marry someone you know — like myself, for instance," he said boldly, "than some young chap with no money and unreliable.
Page 290 - Now he raged that a son of his, blood of his blood, flesh of his flesh, bone of his bone...