hundred years, strange Oriental pieces stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to wear them round your neck—nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection; and for number, I am sure they were like autumn leaves, so that my back ached with stooping and my fingers with sorting them out. — from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
enlarged view of myself I think
However, I have left off my handkerchief, and never feel the want of it; also, I am up at half-past six every morning; and taking an enlarged view of myself, I think my condition to be approved of.’ — from Hurrell Froude: Memoranda and Comments by Louise Imogen Guiney
engineer vanished once more into the
Alec's Sno car pulled up alongside and the chunky engineer vanished once more into the domes to emerge with his own kit. — from The Thirst Quenchers by Rick Raphael
every vestige of materiality in the
In her work the fire of life licks up, with its consuming tongue, every vestige of materiality in the thing upon which it feeds, and the lofty tremulous spires of its radiant burning ascend into the illimitable void. — from Suspended Judgments: Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys
endless varieties of mistakes in the
During the day she patiently listened to endless varieties of mistakes in the same exercises and scales; in the evening, seated at her own piano, she forgot all the cares and worries of her daily round of duty. — from The Quiver, 1/1900 by Anonymous
every variety of money in the
They had the gun, by this time, slewed around upon the swivel 178 In a moment the four pirates had swarmed up the mound and were upon us 179 Quick as thought, I sprang into the mizzen shrouds 210 Nearly every variety of money in the world must have found a place in that collection 211 — from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
every variety of money in the
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange oriental pieces stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of [253] spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to wear them round your neck—nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection; and for number, I am sure they were like autumn leaves, so that my back ached with stooping and my fingers with sorting them out. — from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
every variety of money in the
Nearly every variety of money in the world must have found a place in that collection Day after day this work went on; by every evening a fortune had been stowed aboard, but there was another fortune waiting for the morrow; and all this time we heard nothing of the three surviving mutineers. — from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
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spelled out by the first letters of consecutive words.
Why would you care to know such a thing? It's not entirely clear to us, either, but
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