Yesterday’s last words: he levels mountains, fills in vales, and travels on an even plane where stumbling is unknown.” Thereafter, I slept again, and, when I awoke, I seemed to be in a different world. The sun was shining and I was conscious that birds twittered above my head. My body, yesterday trembling and...
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Yesterday’s last words: there was a presence with me intangible to others, I discovered later, but real to me. The Presence was in my likeness, yet it was strikingly unlike. The brow, not more lofty than my own, yet seemed more round and full; the eyes, clear, direct, and filled with purpose, glowed with...
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Yesterday’s last words: here might be included the fourth lesson: Seek comrades among the industrious, for those who are idle will sap your energies from you. It was my pleasure at that time to relate, upon slight provocation, the tale of my disasters, and to rail against the men whom I deemed to have...
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Yesterday’s last words: bless me for the words I write… * * * My father, then, was a seafaring man who, early in life, forsook his vocation, and settled on a plantation in the colony of Virginia, where, some years thereafter, I was born, which event took place in the year 1642; and that...
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Yesterday’s last words Sturtevant stared at me in wild surprise “All right,” he said. “The others will excuse me for a few moments, I think. Sit down here, and you shall have it. I found it pasted in an old scrapbook I purchased in Ann Street, for three cents and there isn’t a thing...
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yesterday’s last words I began to regard it with superstition In fact, I began to regard it with superstition. If it had made so many fortunes, surely it should be capable of making mine. The certainty that the wonderful story – I began to regard it as magic – was in the air, possessed...
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yesterday ending words: yes,I replied, bitterly, continued today >>>> “Yes,” I replied, bitterly,”with prospects of being on the town, shortly. But you look as if things were coming your way. Tell me all about it.” “Things have been coming my way, for a fact, and it is all remarkable, when all is said. You...
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yesterday ending words: he called the waiter to him,, He called the waiter to him, and, with an inimitable flourish, signed his name on the backs of the two checks, and waved him away. After that he was silent for a moment while he looked into my eyes, smiling at the astonishment which I...
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I don’t think our kids know what an apron is. The principal use of Grandma’s apron was to protect the dress underneath because she only had a few. It was also because it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and aprons used less material. But along with that, it served as a potholder...
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The Magic Story By Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey The story starts with the following statement: “My task is done. I have written the recipe for “success.” If followed, it cannot fail. Wherein I may not be entirely comprehended, the plus-entity of whosoever reads will supply the deficiency; and upon that Better Self of mine,...
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