[The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]@TWC D-Link book
The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION
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The cutwater of this great Leviathan clipper, the OCCIDENTAL,--this thirty-wasted wind-and-steam wave-crusher,--must throw a little spray over the human vocabulary as it splits the waters of a new world's destiny! He rose as he spoke, until his stature seemed to swell into the fair human proportions.

His feet must have been on the upper round of his high chair; that was the only way I could account for it.
Puts her through fast-rate,--said the young fellow whom the boarders call John.
The venerable and kind-looking old gentleman who sits opposite said he remembered Sam Adams as Governor.

An old man in a brown coat.

Saw him take the Chair on Boston Common.

Was a boy then, and remembers sitting on the fence in front of the old Hancock house.


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