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Stamp Collecting as a Pastime / Nankivell, Edward James, 1848-1909
VI. ITS HISTORICAL FINGER POSTS VII. STAMPS WITH A HISTORY VIII. GREAT RARITIES IX. THE ROMANCE ... in the great rarities, finds new issues a source of perpetual enjoyment. They follow one another month details...
Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with extracts from his journals and correspondence. / Longfellow, Samuel, 1819-1892
to you and the rest of the family. I dined with him yesterday, on venison, which is a great rarity here ... in the eyes of men of activities and affairs. In such a life, a new book is a great adventure, a new poem details...
Behind my library door : some chapters on authors, books and miniatures / by G. C. Williamson. / Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942
(especially for a blue) which were not known to his competitors. His work in this country is of great rarity ... a number of oxen, those great white beauties with large appealing eyes, with which the traveller in Italy details...
Across The Plains / Stevenson, Robert Louis
formed; her features were more than comely; she had that great rarity - a fine complexion which became ... , our own on Sunday afternoon, a fourth early on Monday; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday a great part details...
Notes and Queries, Number 03, November 17, 1849 / Various
; and to any catalogues which may reach us containing books of great rarity and curiosity. Had we entertained ... that in so short a space of time so great an improvement had been made. One friend told me that in earlier life details...
Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850 / Various
for these lines than the _Musarum Deliciae_; a fact which I learn from a volume now open before me, the great rarity of which will excuse my transcribing the title-page in full:-- "Apophthegmes, that is to saie ... details...
The Beautiful Lady / Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946
but exquisite, it was that great rarity--goodness made charming. The peregrination of the American trousers ... which trembled with embarrassment at this too great conspicuosity! Those mournful hours passed, one by the year details...
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 / Various
of a boarded house or glass window was a great rarity; a cordial welcome to any connected with the American ... and distinct learned professions, or faculties, to so great an extent as in modern times. The compass details...
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893
show him jewels, cornelians, medals, and such-like objects of great rarity, as knowing ... , in elections and nominations of officers, to add the Christian names of the father, grandfather, great details...
Bits about Home Matters / Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885
had not known. All eyes fastened on the orange. It was evidently a great rarity. I watched to see if this test ... and a great many women would be astonished at being told that simple humanity requires them to gratify every details...