The Martial Adventures of Henry and MeMacmillan, 1918 - 338 pages |
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Page 148 - Alas ! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity...
Page 16 - I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking.
Page 19 - I've been trying to imagine him sitting on the front porch of the Country Club or down at the Elks' Club talking about it; telling how he lured the captain of a ship by his distress signals to come to the rescue of a sinking ship and then destroyed the rescuer, and I've been trying to figure out how the fellows sitting around him would take it. They'd get up and leave. He'd be outcast as unspeakable, and no brag or bluff or blare of victory would gloss over his act. We simply...
Page 86 - Others may sing of the wine and the wealth and the mirth, The portly presence of potentates goodly in girth;— Mine be the dirt and the dross, the dust and the scum of the earth!
Page 19 - ... Club or down at the Elks' Club talking about it; telling how he lured the captain of a ship by his distress signals to come to the rescue of a sinking ship and then destroyed the rescuer, and I've been trying to figure out how the fellows sitting around him would take it. They'd get up and leave. He'd be outcast as unspeakable, and no brag or bluff or blare of victory would gloss over his act. We simply don't think the German way. We have a loyalty to humanity deeper than our patriotism. There...
Page 220 - For a time during the latter part of the last century and during the first decade of this century, the Italian noblemen tried to edge into business.
Page 260 - And they have ; in Mother Goose, in Dickens, in Shakespeare, in Thackeray, in Trollope, in the songs of British poets, in the landscapes of British artists! At every turn of the road, in every face at the window, in every hedgerow and rural village is the everlasting reminder that we who...
Page 5 - So it really is not of arms and the man that this story is written, nor of Henry and me, and the war ; but it is the eternal Wichita and Emporia in the American heart that we shall celebrate hereinafter as we unfold our tale.
Page 153 - ... tidewater to the American headquarters, equipping it with American engines, freight cars, and passenger coaches ; sinking piles for the first time in a...