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Either/Or

Soren Kierkegaard

954 passages indexed from Either/Or (Soren Kierkegaard) — Page 18 of 20

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Either/Or, passage 159
"I wish he belonged to us," sighed Nan. Like Flossie and Freddie she, too, loved animals.
Either/Or, passage 369
Bert did not see Danny Rugg at the noon recess, when the Bobbsey twins and the other children went home for lunch. But when school was let out in the afternoon, and when Bert was talking to Charley Mason about a new way of making a kite, Danny Rugg, accompanied by several of his chums, walked up to Bert. It was in a field some distance from the school, and no houses were near.
Either/Or, passage 725
"So do I, so we could ride down hill," said Nan, "Is your big bob nearly done, Bert?"
Either/Or, passage 489
Taking courage, the girls went up to look. Snap stood over it, wagging his tail as proudly as though he had captured a real snake. As Freddie had said, it was only a tree root.
Either/Or, passage 839
"No, no, Dinah!" cried Mrs. Bobbsey, to calm the cook. "It isn't this house. It's down by the lake. If you look out of your window you can see it."
Either/Or, passage 911
"Well, after this I think we all need something to cheer us up," said Papa Bobbsey, who came home from the office early that day.
Either/Or, passage 748
It was toward the close of school one afternoon, when all the pupils were wishing the hands of the clock would point to letting-out time, that Nan, looking from the window, and away from her arithmetic book, saw a few white flakes of snow sifting lazily down. At once she was all attention, and her lesson was forgotten.
Either/Or, passage 421
This took their mind off the proposed circus, but for several days after that they had much fun making hoops for Snap to jump through.
Either/Or, passage 753
"Now, boys and girls," she said gently, "you can have a good time in the snow after you get out of here. So please give attention to your lessons for a few minutes more. Then you will be finished. Nan Bobbsey, you may go to the board and do the third example."
Either/Or, passage 830
"Not this time, my Fat Fireman!" said Freddie's papa, "It may be only a pile of rubbish on fire. I'll tell you about it when I come back."
Either/Or, passage 147
"It can't be an elephant," said Mr. Bobbsey. "One of the big beasts would make more noise than that. It may be one of the monkeys--I don't see how they could catch them all--they were so lively and full of mischief."
Either/Or, passage 737
There was to be an examination of the school by some of the members of the Board of Education late that afternoon, and, directly after recess, Mr. Tetlow went to each room to tell the pupils and teachers to get ready for it, and to put certain work on the blackboards, so it could be seen.
Either/Or, passage 552
For a moment Flossie and Freddie almost believed him, he seemed so much in earnest about it.
Either/Or, passage 691
"Well, boys will--er--have their little troubles," said her husband. "I'm sorry Bert had to fight, but I'm glad he wasn't a coward. But he mustn't fight any more."
Either/Or, passage 525
"Does it?" asked Freddie, innocently. "How do you make it?" He had no idea it was forbidden fun.
Either/Or, passage 412
"We're going to have Snap do the circus trick of jumping through a paper hoop," explained Nan. "Only we can't seem to get the hoop made."
Either/Or, passage 607
"No, I had better telephone, in case it is necessary. But perhaps I had better take a look out there. Perhaps the man from the store may have set the cream off to one side."
Either/Or, passage 291
"Hi there!" he cried. "Stop that! I'll pay you back for that, Fred Bobbsey," and he jumped over the fence and ran toward the little fellow.
Either/Or, passage 344
By this time they were at the school, and it was nearly time for the last bell to ring. Danny went off to join some of his particular chums, shaking his fist at Bert as he went.
Either/Or, passage 144
They all listened. It was very quiet. Then from down the hard dirt path they all heard the "pit-pat, pit-pat" of the footsteps of some animal. It was coming on slowly.
Either/Or, passage 698
"I wish everybody was," said Flossie, a bit wistfully. "I hope our cat Snoop, wherever he is, has plenty of milk, and some nice turkey bones."
Either/Or, passage 726
"No, Charley and I have quite a lot of things to do on it yet, but we're going to work every night after school now, and it will soon be finished."
Either/Or, passage 520
Workmen had recently finished putting some new water pipes, and a place for the children to drink, in the school yard, and one morning, speaking to the whole school, Mr. Tetlow made a little speech, warning the children not to play with the faucets, and spray the water about, as some had done, in fun.
Either/Or, passage 794
"Well, what are we going to do?" asked Danny at last. "Shall we shove off ourselves?"
Either/Or, passage 143
"Yes, father. It's some animal walking, behind us. Listen and you can hear it yourself."
Either/Or, passage 804
"I will," said Bert, and he turned the steering wheel of his bob, while Luke Morton, in the rear, pulled hard on the bell, making it clang out a loud warning.
Either/Or, passage 109
"Be quiet, dear, we'll find him for you," said Mrs. Bobbsey, as she opened her satchel to get out some cookies. Then she remembered something.
Either/Or, passage 255
"They went down to the lake," said Flossie. "Oh, mamma, do take us to the fire with you. We'll bring Snap along."
Either/Or, passage 613
"Mamma, if we can't find this ice cream, can't we buy more?" Flossie wanted to know "The girls just want some--so bad!"
Either/Or, passage 218
"But Dinah is a great help," went on Mrs. Bobbsey, for she did not mean to complain. Flossie and Freddie had tried a few days in the kindergarten class at school, but Flossie said she did not like it, and, as Freddie would not go without her, their parents had taken them both out in the Spring.
Either/Or, passage 799
"No, Bert's sled is!" shouted his admirers. As a matter of fact, though, both sleds were even at the start. On and on they went very swiftly, for the hill had been worn smooth. Then Bert saw his bob getting ahead a little, and he felt that he was going to win easily.
Either/Or, passage 480
Then she thought she saw something long and black wiggling toward her, and, with a little exclamation of fright, she, too, turned to follow the others. But, as she did so, she saw their dog Snap come running up the hill, barking and wagging his tail. He seemed to have lost the children for a moment and to be telling them how glad he was that he had found them again.
Either/Or, passage 36
"Is Snoop all right?" asked Freddie, peering into a box that was made of slats, with spaces between them for air.
Either/Or, passage 865
"You found those cigarettes in the living room of the boathouse?" asked Mr. Bobbsey.
Either/Or, passage 622
"No, you go back there, and stay in the house," went on Bert. "If we find tramps have it, we'll get a policeman."
Either/Or, passage 432
"But I expect you all to have perfect marks from now until Friday," Mr. Tetlow went on. "You may bring your lunches to school with you Friday morning, if your parents will let you, and we will leave here at noon, and go to Ward's woods."
Either/Or, passage 110
"Freddie, where is that silver cup?" she asked. "You had it to get a drink. Did you give it back to me?"
Either/Or, passage 117
Meanwhile Mrs. Bobbsey kept the four children and Dinah with her, surrounding their little pile of baggage off to one side of the tracks. Some of the big torches were still burning, and the full moon was coming up, so that there was plenty of light, even if it was night.
Either/Or, passage 221
"Yes, he's out dere somewheres, washin' de carriage. But don't yo' let 'at dog bite yo'."
Either/Or, passage 893
"You must be punished for this," went on Mr. Rugg, "and this punishment will be that you are not to have the motor boat I promised you for next Summer. Perhaps it will be a lesson to you."
Either/Or, passage 247
"I will," replied Mr. Bobbsey. "I will have to write to them anyhow, about the dog, and at the same time I'll ask about the cup. Though I don't believe the fat lady meant to keep it."
Either/Or, passage 647
"Look out!" she exclaimed. "Dere's suffin black in dere, Mrs. Bobbsey. Maybe it's a stone dem careless tramps put in. Wait 'till I gits it out."
Either/Or, passage 123
"Oh, don't talk that way to them," said Nan. "They do love that cat so. Never mind, Flossie and Freddie. I'm sure we'll find him soon. Here comes papa."
Either/Or, passage 264
"I declare, I didn't!" he exclaimed. "The fire upset me so that it slipped my mind. I'll do it the first thing to-morrow. There is no special hurry. How is the dog, by the way?"
Either/Or, passage 10
"Yes, and I'll be looking for some of the boys, too," put in Bert. "But school will soon begin, and that's no fun!"
Either/Or, passage 71
"Papa, do you think a tiger would come in here?" asked Freddie, remembering all the stories of wild animals he had heard in his four years.
Either/Or, passage 60
But she never got more than a sip of the water Freddie had so kindly brought her, for, no sooner did her lips touch the cup than there was a grinding, shrieking sound, a jar to the railway coach, and the train came to such a sudden stop that many passengers were thrown from their seats.
Either/Or, passage 510
"I--I guess I ate too many--apples," said Harry, in a faint voice. "We found an orchard, and---"
Either/Or, passage 581
On each cake burned five candles, and on one cake was the name "Flossie," while the other was marked "Freddie." The names were in pink icing on top of the white frosting that covered the birthday cakes.
Either/Or, passage 298
"You are not! I say you did that on purpose--or you told Freddie to, and I'm going to pay you back!"