 Connecticut ; and would frighten them wofully with speculations upon comets and shooting stars ; and with the alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsyturvy ! But if there was a pleasure in all this,...  The Quarterly review - Page 601821Full view - About this book
 | Loring Holmes Dodd - 1915 - 96 pages
...alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy! But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly...the crackling wood fire, and where, of course, no specter dared to show his face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards.... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Fredrick Thomas Dawson - 1915 - 314 pages
...alarming fact 25 that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy! But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly...ruddy glow from the crackling wood fire, and where, of 30 course, no specter dared to show its face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors of his subsequent... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman - 1916 - 346 pages
...alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn around, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy! But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly...the crackling wood fire, and where, of course, no specter dared to show its face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards.... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Everett Hale, Washington Irving, Francis Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain - 1917 - 616 pages
...alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy ! But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly...fire, and where, of course, no spectre dared to show his face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards. What fearful shapes... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1919 - 650 pages
...were half the time topsyturvy! But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly cuddling in 1o the chimney corner of a chamber that was all of a...the crackling wood fire, and where, of course, no specter dared to show his face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards.... | |
 | William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler - 1919 - 456 pages
...alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvey ! But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly cuddling in the chimney corner of a room that was all 15 of a ruddy glow from the crackling wood fire, and where, of course, no specter... | |
 | Francis Patrick Donnelly - 1920 - 238 pages
...of a vacation there. The scenes of some city perpetuate the memory of a friend. EXERCISE XLI. Model. But if there was a pleasure in all this while snugly...fire, and where of course no spectre dared to show his face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards. What fearful shapes... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck, Lura E. Runkel - 1921 - 618 pages
...alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy! But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly cuddling 30 in the chimney corner of a chamber that was all of a ruddy glow from the crackling wood fire, and... | |
 | William Harris Elson - 1921 - 520 pages
...alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy ! But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly cuddling to in the chimney corner of a chamber that was all of a ruddy glow from the crackling wood fire, and... | |
 | Rose Buhlig - 1922 - 496 pages
...that we can relive his emotion: But if there was a pleasure in all this (listening to ghost stories) , while snugly cuddling in the chimney corner of a chamber that was all of a ruddy glow from the crackling wood-fire and where, of course, no spectre dared show his face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors... | |
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