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...gaining in the halls of pleasure what they had lost on the fields of battle. But on the little side street by the water-front, not far from the Franz-Josef bridge, there were no bright lights. There was only the faint glow from the garret window of a weather-beaten old house, where, working far into the night, a busy scholar was translating Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" into Albanian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fan Noli Discards Political Role for That of Author and Ahmed Zogu Reports "All Quiet Along the Adriatic" | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

Present Curriculum Weather-Beaten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Items of Interest to University | 1/18/1915 | See Source »

...looked at the old skipper. He shaded his shaggy eyebrows with a weather-beaten hand, and gazed alternately at sky and sea. "Ef I owned that boat I 'd take her round to the shelter o' the cove in a minit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIRA. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

...middle of an open space in the aforesaid settlement, there stood a thin, gaunt specimen of mankind, holding in his hand a weather-beaten hunting-case watch, whose virtues he was expounding thus: "My friends, I would call your attention to this elegant silver watch; but before asking for a bid I will give you a short history of its career, and show you some of its good points, so that you may see that you have a veritable treasure in your midst. In the first place, let me tell you that this beautiful timepiece was ordered by Lord Gladstone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SUMMER INCIDENT. | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

...Freshman was drowsing over his book one night, when suddenly his door was thrown open, and in walked two strangers. They were queer companions: for one was a tramp, old, seedy, blue-nosed, and weather-beaten; and the other was a full-blown Sophomore in all the glory of cane, harlequin suit, and shirt embroidered with little pink turtles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FRESHMAN'S VISITORS. | 10/25/1878 | See Source »

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