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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... shade , and grace of line and contour , as though in reality you were a sculptor modelling his clay . As in the selection of the house site , the first thing to do is to study the natural surface of the mal character of the surface of ...
... shade , and grace of line and contour , as though in reality you were a sculptor modelling his clay . As in the selection of the house site , the first thing to do is to study the natural surface of the mal character of the surface of ...
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... shade trees , such as elms , maples , lindens , oaks , etc. , should never be set nearer than forty or fifty feet ; second - class greens , twenty - five feet ; first - class de- ciduous flowering shrubs , eight to ten feet ; and ...
... shade trees , such as elms , maples , lindens , oaks , etc. , should never be set nearer than forty or fifty feet ; second - class greens , twenty - five feet ; first - class de- ciduous flowering shrubs , eight to ten feet ; and ...
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... shade , and in different kinds of soil . A few words , at this time , concern- ing the members of this list of twelve shrubs will be opportune . Probably I should not say twelve exactly , for there may be fifteen and there may be twenty ...
... shade , and in different kinds of soil . A few words , at this time , concern- ing the members of this list of twelve shrubs will be opportune . Probably I should not say twelve exactly , for there may be fifteen and there may be twenty ...
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... shade as in sun- shine . It is always vigor- ous , grows in almost any soil , and is easily trans- planted . You may , for in- stance , move without dan- ger plants six feet high , whereas for most large shrubs four feet is quite high ...
... shade as in sun- shine . It is always vigor- ous , grows in almost any soil , and is easily trans- planted . You may , for in- stance , move without dan- ger plants six feet high , whereas for most large shrubs four feet is quite high ...
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... shade and poor soil as any shrub in the catalogue . It is especially valu- able in crowded city grass - plots . I hesi- tate , however , to recommend it highly , for it is somewhat stiff and formal in outline , and if not pruned , in ...
... shade and poor soil as any shrub in the catalogue . It is especially valu- able in crowded city grass - plots . I hesi- tate , however , to recommend it highly , for it is somewhat stiff and formal in outline , and if not pruned , in ...
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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.