 | Bret Harte - 1909 - 400 trang
...happens to be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him, to any great extent. Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order, when A chunk of old red sandstone...member did engage In a warfare with the remnants of a palaeozoic age ; And the way they heaved those fossils in their anger was a sin, Till the skull of... | |
 | Marshall Pinckney Wilder - 1911 - 252 trang
...Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent. Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of prder, when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the...member did engage In a warfare with the remnants of a palaeozoic age; And the way they heaved those fossils in their anger was a sin, Till the skull of an... | |
 | Henry Childs Merwin - 1911 - 418 trang
...another familiar example in these well-known lines by Truthful James : — Then Abner Dean of Angels raised a point of order, when A chunk of old red sandstone...the subsequent proceedings interested him no more. This was typical California humor, and Bret Harte, in his stories and poems, more often perhaps in... | |
 | Edmund Lester Pearson - 1911 - 320 trang
...Stanislow. If I can quote correctly, the incident is described as follows: " ' Then Peleg Jones of Angels raised a point of order, when A chunk of old red sandstone...the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.' " I remember now," said I, " it was the beginning of a serious battle." "Yes; events followed fast... | |
 | Albert Hamann - 1911 - 226 trang
...president has a heavy piece of red-sandstone hurled at his head, the poet refers to the result saying: And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up...the subsequent proceedings interested him no more. Mark Twain, 1835—1910, of this entirely self-made man. Printer, boatswain on the Mississippi (Mark... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1912 - 136 trang
...happens to be meant Keply by heaving rocks at him, to any great extent. Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order, when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen, 26 And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1912 - 128 trang
...who happens to be meant Keply by heaving rocks at him, to any great extent. Then Abner Dean of AngePs raised a point of order, when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen, 26 And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings... | |
 | Champ Clark - 1920 - 540 trang
...of Bret Harte's famous poem entitled, "The Society upon the Stanislaus": Then Abner, Dean of Angels, raised a point of order — when A chunk of old red sandstone struck him in the abdomen, And he smiled a kind of sickly smile and curled up on the floor, And the... | |
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin, Wilford Merton Aikin - 1922 - 336 trang
...tickled by numerous passages, such as the one describing the disaster which befell a certain gentleman when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the...the subsequent proceedings interested him no more. Bret Harte found new rich material in the life of the Far West, and used it with a knowledge of the... | |
 | Joseph Adams - 1924 - 300 trang
...Ah, man, don't open your mouth so wide or you'll swallow some of it ! " But it was no good. " They smiled a kind of sickly smile And curled up on the floor. And the subsequent proceedings CHAPTER IX THE EASKEY RIVER EASKEY is a small salmon and white trout river that flows from a lake well... | |
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Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order — when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen, And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more. 
