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Norris Frank - The Octopus
[ FICTION]
... humouredly, and turned to strop his razor. Presley looked with suspicious disfavour at his suspenders. "Why is it," he observed, "that as soon as a man is about to get married, he buys himself pale blue suspenders, silk ones? Think of it. You, Buck Annixter, with sky-blue, silk suspenders. ...
Porter Gene Stratton - Laddie
[ FICTION]
... Every time he parts his hair he sees how good looking he is. He doesn't care. He says the only thing that counts with a man is to be big, strong, manly, and well educated." "Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. " ...
Davis Richard - Adventures And Letters Of Richard Harding Davis
[ FICTION]
... drove me crazy almost with town lots and lot sites and homestead holdings. It was all raw and mean, and greedy for money and a man is much better off in every way in a tenement on Second Avenue than the "owner of his own home" in one of these ...
Phillips David G. - The Conflict
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... interests of the company of financiers and the gang of politico- criminal thugs who owned the party machinery. It is a nice question whether a man is ever allowed to go in HONEST self-deception decisively far along a wrong road. However this may be, certain it is that David ...
Eastman Charles - Old Indian Days
[ POETRY]
... his plea, and with outward calmness awaited her reply. The maiden had not lost a word, but she was still thinking. She thought that a man is much like the wind of the north, only pleasant and comfortable in midsummer! She feared that she might some time have to furnish ...
Phillips David G. - The Fortuner Hunter
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... began: ``It ought to be worth at least twenty thousand. Do you know Ganser?Just a speaking acquaintance.Excellent. What kind of a man is he?Stupid and ignorant, but not without a certain cunning. We can get at him all right, though. He's deadly afraid of social scandal. Wants ...
Franklin Benjamin - The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin
[ ESSAYS]
... repeat the lines, "Immodest words admit of no defense, For want of modesty is want of sense." Now, is not want of sense (where a man is so unfortunate as to want it) some apology for his want of modesty? and would not the lines stand more justly thus? "Immodest ...
Conan Doyle Arthur - Round The Red Lamp
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... beauty and her three crippled sisters." "That's the worst of these medical stories," sighs the outsider. "They never seem to have an end." "When a man is up to his neck in practice, my boy, he has no time to gratify his private curiosity. Things shoot across him and he ...
Ferber Edna - Buttered Side Down
[ FICTION]
... up the front of it with a jabot, an' if her face is pretty enough she can carry it off that way. But when a man is seedy, he's seedy. He can't sew no ruffles on his pants." "I ran short last week, continued Louie. "That is, shorter than usual. ...
Phillips David G. - The Cost
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... think a man ought to have ambition?" she asked. She was thinking of her lover and his audacious schemes for making himself powerful. "Oh--a man is what he is. Ambition means so many different things." "But shouldn't you like to be rich and famous and--all that?" "It depends----" ...
Shakespeare William - Much Ado About Nothing
[ DRAMA]
... will, after he hath laughed at such shallow follies in others, become the argument of his own scorn by failing in love: and such a man is Claudio. I have known when there was no music with him but the drum and the fife; and now had he rather hear ...

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