Good Words Volume 20 epub
Good Words Volume 20 epub
Good Words Volume 20 by Norman MacLeod
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Author: Norman MacLeod
Number of Pages: 604 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781130674316
File size: 40 Mb
File Name: Good.Words.Volume.20.pdf
Download Link: Good Words Volume 20
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ... Nagasaki is no longer a word of defeat, but a word of power. Nagasaki was our last peep at Japan, and we wandered through the streets reluctant to bid them good-bye. Two men with a huge drum-like tambourine beat a long tattoo, and when they stopped, a third man called out in a loud voice the name of the play at the theatre, and invited the people to come. A blind man passed along blowing a shrill plaintive note upon a reed, and thus clearing the way. Some wrestlers stopped--men overflowing with fat and muscle in curious combination, and representing the most popular amusement of the country, for even the throne was once wrestled for: and indeed, in the matter of games, football is as aristocratic and as popular, the legend running that an emperor scored well at it twelve hundred years ago, while football days were always announced in the Government Gazette. We had not seen any tubbing of this much-bathing people in the open street, nor that promiscuous washing of their person which appears in travellers' tales. Both have no doubt occurred, but they are exceptional, and may have been as little a mark of the nation as the baths at Leukerbad characterize the Swiss. Though we had seenainos, they had not performed their favourite dance, which consists in imitating the noise of a chain passing over a pulley, the regular motions of the feet representing the motions of a man who turns the wheel of the crane, and the time kept by clapping the hand. We had missed the lighthearted courtesy of other Japanese towns, where no man seems ever rude to his neighbour, where common porters will salute one another with an air of perfect breeding, and where a cabman helps his weaker fellow up a stiff bit of hill and is repaid by a charming thank you. But shopkeepers were as bus...
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Good Words Volume 20 by Norman MacLeod
Author: Norman MacLeod
Number of Pages: 604 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781130674316
File size: 40 Mb
File Name: Good.Words.Volume.20.pdf
Download Link: Good Words Volume 20
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ... Nagasaki is no longer a word of defeat, but a word of power. Nagasaki was our last peep at Japan, and we wandered through the streets reluctant to bid them good-bye. Two men with a huge drum-like tambourine beat a long tattoo, and when they stopped, a third man called out in a loud voice the name of the play at the theatre, and invited the people to come. A blind man passed along blowing a shrill plaintive note upon a reed, and thus clearing the way. Some wrestlers stopped--men overflowing with fat and muscle in curious combination, and representing the most popular amusement of the country, for even the throne was once wrestled for: and indeed, in the matter of games, football is as aristocratic and as popular, the legend running that an emperor scored well at it twelve hundred years ago, while football days were always announced in the Government Gazette. We had not seen any tubbing of this much-bathing people in the open street, nor that promiscuous washing of their person which appears in travellers' tales. Both have no doubt occurred, but they are exceptional, and may have been as little a mark of the nation as the baths at Leukerbad characterize the Swiss. Though we had seenainos, they had not performed their favourite dance, which consists in imitating the noise of a chain passing over a pulley, the regular motions of the feet representing the motions of a man who turns the wheel of the crane, and the time kept by clapping the hand. We had missed the lighthearted courtesy of other Japanese towns, where no man seems ever rude to his neighbour, where common porters will salute one another with an air of perfect breeding, and where a cabman helps his weaker fellow up a stiff bit of hill and is repaid by a charming thank you. But shopkeepers were as bus...
Read online Good Words Volume 20 Buy and read online Good Words Volume 20 Download Good Words Volume 20 for pc, mac, kindle, readers Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Good Words Volume 20