The Woman's Book: Dealing Practically with the Modern Conditions of Home-life, Self-support, Education, Opportunities, and Every-day ProblemsC. Scribner's Sons, 1894 |
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... secure at the same time greater privacy from the street . Sup- pose , for instance , your lot happened to be two hundred or three hundred feet deep and your house stood exactly in the middle of it , how much better your place would look ...
... secure at the same time greater privacy from the street . Sup- pose , for instance , your lot happened to be two hundred or three hundred feet deep and your house stood exactly in the middle of it , how much better your place would look ...
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... secure an engineering line , but softly and slightly sink or raise the ground in the central parts - not in the exact centre - and thus secure a long , easy flowing contour which will give the ground just enough swell or hollow to avoid ...
... secure an engineering line , but softly and slightly sink or raise the ground in the central parts - not in the exact centre - and thus secure a long , easy flowing contour which will give the ground just enough swell or hollow to avoid ...
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... secure this desirable result . To all persons who must have fences I would say , use some modification of the post - and - rail fence , and make it as low and inconspicuous and vine - covered as possible . A picket fence is not a ...
... secure this desirable result . To all persons who must have fences I would say , use some modification of the post - and - rail fence , and make it as low and inconspicuous and vine - covered as possible . A picket fence is not a ...
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... secure a heavy iron roller and , with the help of several men or a team , to com- pact thoroughly the entire surface of the lawn . The seed will be , after such grass free from foreign admixture of other weeds or plants . When that day ...
... secure a heavy iron roller and , with the help of several men or a team , to com- pact thoroughly the entire surface of the lawn . The seed will be , after such grass free from foreign admixture of other weeds or plants . When that day ...
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... secure a certain pictu- resqueness of perspective . Wherever the plants are set , there a gentle swell should be contrived . This tends to lift the plants up and exhibit their charms better , and at the same time secure an agreeable ...
... secure a certain pictu- resqueness of perspective . Wherever the plants are set , there a gentle swell should be contrived . This tends to lift the plants up and exhibit their charms better , and at the same time secure an agreeable ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 177 - And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Página 244 - I wish the good old times would come again," she said, " when we were not quite so rich. I do not mean, that I want to be poor ; but there was a middle state ; " — so she was pleased to ramble on, — " in which I am sure we were a great deal happier. A purchase is but a purchase, now that you have money enough and to spare. Formerly it used to be a triumph. When we coveted a cheap luxury (and...
Página 245 - ... and against, and think what we might spare it out of, and what saving we could hit upon, that should be an equivalent. A thing was worth buying then, when we felt the money that we paid for it.
Página 180 - IT is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.
Página 251 - And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.
Página 274 - STATE OF NEW YORK,) County of New York,) ss. : On this day of , 1910, before me personally came to me known and known to me to be the individual described in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and he duly acknowledged to me that he executed the same.
Página 276 - ... and the said party of the first part doth covenant that the said party of the second part, on paying the said yearly rent, and performing the covenants aforesaid, shall and may peaceably and quietly have, hold, and enjoy, the said demised premises for the term aforesaid.
Página 263 - In his devouring mind's eye he pictured to himself every roasting-pig running about with a pudding in his belly and an apple in his mouth; the pigeons were snugly put to bed in a comfortable pie and tucked in with a coverlet of crust...
Página 276 - ... party of the second part, and receive the rent thereof, applying the same, first to the payment of such...
Página 274 - Bronx in said city, in the office of the register of the city and county of New York.