 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 sider
...lying on my lap was my writing-table, and the task did not demand anything like a year of my life. I had no money to purchase candle or oil ; in winter...but that of the fire, and only my turn even of that. And if I under such circumstances, and without parent or friend to advise or encourage me, accomplished... | |
 | Edward Smith - 1878 - 378 sider
...board lying on my lap was my writing-table I had no money to purchase candle or oil; in wintertime it was rarely that I could get any evening light but...fire; and only my turn even of that To buy a pen or a sheet of paper I was compelled to forego some portion of food, though in a state of halfstarvation... | |
 | 1879 - 244 sider
...lying on my lap was my writing-table, and the task did not demand anything like a year of my life. I had no money to purchase candle or oil ; in winter...but that of the fire, and only my turn even of that. And if I under such circumstances, and without parent or friend to advise or encourage me, accomplished... | |
 | sir John Bowring - 1879 - 626 sider
...day. ... I have seen soldiers lay in their berths, many and many a time, actually crying for hunger rarely that I could get any evening light but that of the tire ; and only my turn even of that. . . . To buy a pen or a sheet of paper i was compelled to forego... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 sider
...lying on my lap was my writing-table. ... I had no money to purchase candle or oil ; in winter-time it was rarely that I could get any evening light but...and only my turn even of that ... To buy a pen or a sheet of paper I was compelled to forego some portion of ibod, though in a state of half-starvation.... | |
 | Robert Waters - 1883 - 612 sider
...not demand anything like a year of my life. I had no money to purchase candle or oil ; in winter-time it was rarely that I could get any evening light but...fire, and only my turn even of that. To buy a pen or a sheet of paper, I was compelled to forego some portion of food, though in a state of half starvation... | |
 | Robert Waters - 1888 - 334 sider
...not demand anything like a year of my life. I had no money to purchase candle or oil ; in winter-time it was rarely that I could get any evening light but...fire, and only my turn even of that. To buy a pen or a sheet of paper, I was compelled to forego some portion of food, though in a state of half starvation... | |
 | Jerome Paine Bates - 1886 - 882 sider
...lying on my lap was my writing-table ; and the task did not demand anything like a year of my life. I had no money to purchase candle or oil ; in winter...that of the fire, and only my turn, even, of that. And if I, under such circumstances, and without parent or friend to advise or encourage me, accomplished... | |
 | 1888 - 102 sider
...lying on my lap was my writing-table, and the task did not demand anything like a year of my life. I had no money to purchase candle or oil. In winter time it was rarely I could get any evening light but that of the fire, and only my turn even at that. And if I, under... | |
 | Benjamin Bartis Comegys - 1893 - 320 sider
...require a year of my life. I had no money to purchase candles or oil ; in winter time it was very rare that I could get any evening light but that of the fire ; and only my turn even of that. And if I, under such circumstances, and without parent or friend to advise or encourage me, accomplished... | |
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... like a year of my life. I had no money to purchase candle or oil ; in winter time it was rarely that I could get any evening light but that of the fire, and only my turn even of that. 
