There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantrie...s, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What do you do in the Grand Hotel? Eat, sleep, loaf around, flirt a little, dance a little. A hundred doors leading to one hall. N...o one knows anything about the person next to them. And when you leave, someone occupies your room, lies in your bed. That's the end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the "dragon," in their eff...orts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Belinda lived in a little white house, With a little black kitten and a little gray mouse,... And a little yellow dog and a little red wagon, And a realio, trulio, little pet dragon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The pirate gaped at Belinda's dragon, And gulped some grog from his pocket flagon,... He fired two bullets, but they didn't hit, And Custard gobbled him, every bit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One may draw a dragon or a tiger, but it is hard to draw their skeletons; one may know a person's face but it is hard to know his ...heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »