College Readings in English ProseFrank William Scott, Jacob Zeitlin |
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... Allan Poe • Rudyard Kipling . John Ruskin . " Popular Mechanics " F. Hopkinson Smith C. Lloyd Morgan Lafcadio Hearn The Hen Hawk A Trout John Burroughs Richard Jefferies F. PERSONS : Sir Richard Grenville . Francis Drake John X CONTENTS.
... Allan Poe • Rudyard Kipling . John Ruskin . " Popular Mechanics " F. Hopkinson Smith C. Lloyd Morgan Lafcadio Hearn The Hen Hawk A Trout John Burroughs Richard Jefferies F. PERSONS : Sir Richard Grenville . Francis Drake John X CONTENTS.
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... PERSONS : Sir Richard Grenville . Francis Drake John Sterling Percy Bysshe Shelley Father Prout Edward the First An Accountant A Portrait Charles Cheeryble Harold Skimpole Mr. George . Aunt Clara . Bud Tilden . A Group of Mourners . G ...
... PERSONS : Sir Richard Grenville . Francis Drake John Sterling Percy Bysshe Shelley Father Prout Edward the First An Accountant A Portrait Charles Cheeryble Harold Skimpole Mr. George . Aunt Clara . Bud Tilden . A Group of Mourners . G ...
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... persons to whom it is not native . The other distinctive feature of slang is that it is neither a part of the ordinary lan- guage , nor an attempt to supply its deficiencies . The slang word is a deliberate substitute for a word of the ...
... persons to whom it is not native . The other distinctive feature of slang is that it is neither a part of the ordinary lan- guage , nor an attempt to supply its deficiencies . The slang word is a deliberate substitute for a word of the ...
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... person better than his name does ) , or that in time it develops a shade of meaning which the ordinary language . cannot convey . But when such a word comes to be used mainly on account of its intrinsic merit , and not because it is a ...
... person better than his name does ) , or that in time it develops a shade of meaning which the ordinary language . cannot convey . But when such a word comes to be used mainly on account of its intrinsic merit , and not because it is a ...
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... person better than his name does ) , or that in time it develops a shade of meaning which the ordinary language cannot convey . But when such a word comes to be used mainly on account of its intrinsic merit , and not because it is a ...
... person better than his name does ) , or that in time it develops a shade of meaning which the ordinary language cannot convey . But when such a word comes to be used mainly on account of its intrinsic merit , and not because it is a ...
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