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…their hues on shirts and shawls, skirts and breeches and waistbands. Nature competing with Percy Anderson3 was the frivolous comment that came to one’s mind, and certainly a mediæval crowd…
…their hues on shirts and shawls, skirts and breeches and waistbands. Nature competing with Percy Anderson3 was the frivolous comment that came to one’s mind, and certainly a mediæval crowd…
…it were taken up by an elaborate illustration of laden men, trucks and even elephants passing through an ornate classical archway on their way to a dock with ships. Selfridge’s…
…of the people’, ‘Efficiency with economy’ — that is the language in which the Parrot House thinks, and any time that you like to leave your wolf-pack and come and…
…coming along the road had to run into the hedge to avoid imminent collision. “Here we are, my dear,” said the bearer of the white mackintosh, coming in through the…
Here’s a suitably wintery book cover (which also happens to be entirely unsuitable in every other way). This absolutely bizarre concoction is an e-book cover that I found on amazon.it…
…who introduced Reginald to the world thus: I did it—I who should have known better. I persuaded Reginald to go to the McKillops’ garden–party against his will. https://www.academia.edu/112374550/The_Identity_of_the_Narrator_in_Sakis_first_Reginald_Story…
…managed to track down the source for a quote from a Russian periodical that Saki refers to in ‘Birds on the Western Front’. She has written about it here: https://www.academia.edu/61416978/A_Russian_Quote_in_a_Story_by_Saki_H_H_Munro_…
Project Gutenberg has a digitised version of H. H. Munro’s first publication, the history book The Rise of the Russian Empire. You can access it here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45099 And before you…
…as its sub-editor. It struck a completely new note in regimental journalism by subordinating regimental intelligence to general articles grave and gay, and, speaking with that impartiality which only the…
…you told them in return that you went there because you liked it, they would stare in pained wonder at the frivolity of your motive. (‘Filboid Studge’) Article link: https://uk.style.yahoo.com/curious-victorian-obsession-cleanliness-exotic-093234249.html…