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Either/Or

Soren Kierkegaard

954 passages indexed from Either/Or (Soren Kierkegaard) — Page 12 of 20

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Either/Or, passage 881
He walked over to the door, and tried to open it. Some one on the inside was holding it, but Mr. Rugg gave a strong pull, and the door flew open. To the surprise of Mr. Rugg he saw his son Danny, and a number of boys, hiding there, and the smell of cigarette smoke was very strong.
Either/Or, passage 24
"There's a seat up ahead for you, Bert," suggested Mr. Bobbsey, as a gentleman got up, when the train approached a station. "You can sit there, and let Flossie or Freddie take your place."
Either/Or, passage 673
"It isn't--I didn't--you can't prove anything about me, Bert Bobbsey, and if you go around telling that I took your ice cream, I--I---"
Either/Or, passage 928
"You see how it is," he said. "She has our cat, and we have their dog. We'll have to give up our dog to get our cat."
Either/Or, passage 46
Her brother managed to get the hat just as it was sliding under the seat where the fat lady sat.
Either/Or, passage 276
"Maybe you'll have to give him back to the circus," said Willie Flood, one of Freddie's chums.
Either/Or, passage 59
"And it cost a lot of money, too," said Flossie. "It's ours--our birthday cup, and when I grow up I'm going to have a bracelet made from my half."
Either/Or, passage 819
"Aw, I'd have beaten if you hadn't gotten in my way so I had to steer over," cried Danny.
Either/Or, passage 828
"It _is_ near here!" he said. "The engines are going past our house! I'd better take a look."
Either/Or, passage 177
The dog stopped wagging his tail. Then he sat down on the path, and calmly waited. Mr. Bobbsey walked toward him.
Either/Or, passage 604
"Dat's what I don't know, honey," answered the colored cook. "Dat's why I comed in heah to tell yo' mamma. I 'spects, Mrs. Bobbsey, dat we'd better phonograph fo' de police."
Either/Or, passage 192
"No, no!" said Flossie. "We want to keep him. He can run along behind the trolley car. I'll ask the motorman to go slow, papa."
Either/Or, passage 380
Mr. Tetlow did not appear to have seen the fight that amounted to so little. Perhaps he pretended not to.
Either/Or, passage 758
Danny Rugg, who had not forgiven Bert for the many times the Bobbsey lad had gotten the best of him, threw a ball at Freddie. But Bert was on the watch, and managed to jump up and catch the white missile in his hand. Then he threw it at Danny, striking him on the neck.
Either/Or, passage 263
"Did you write to the circus people to-day about our silver cup, and that trick dog?" asked Mrs. Bobbsey of her husband that night.
Either/Or, passage 40
"He'll soon be out of his cage; won't you, snoop?" said Freddie, and then he and his sister went on to the water cooler Near by they saw something else to look at This was the sight of a very, very fat lady who occupied nearly all of one seat in the end of the car. She was so large that only a very little baby could have found room beside her.
Either/Or, passage 851
Mr. Bobbsey rushed forward, and, as the policemen and firemen knew him, they let him get close to the boathouse.
Either/Or, passage 197
"There's the car!" exclaimed Bert, as they went around another turn in the path and came to a road. Down it could be seen the headlight of an approaching trolley, and also the twin lamps of an oncoming automobile.
Either/Or, passage 13
Just ahead of the two Bobbsey children were another set of them. I say "set" for the Bobbsey children came "in sets."
Either/Or, passage 590
"Yes, as it is your birthday, I suppose you can give him some of your good things," said Mamma Bobbsey.
Either/Or, passage 477
"Call Mr. Tetlow!" said Flossie. "He's got a book about snakes, and he'll know what to do."
Either/Or, passage 792
"Come on, let's race if we're going to," called some of the boys on Danny's sled.
Either/Or, passage 149
"It's a dog!" said Mrs. Bobbsey. "Oh, I'm so glad it wasn't--an elephant," and she hugged Freddie and Flossie.
Either/Or, passage 746
"Nor ever, I hope," said Nan, as she turned up her little nose. "It--it smells so."
Either/Or, passage 478
In fright the children turned, Freddie looking back at the spot where he thought he had seen the snake.
Either/Or, passage 8
"I'd rather be back at the seashore," said Bert, not turning his gaze from the window, for the train was passing along some fields just then, and in one a boy was driving home some cows to be milked, as evening was coming on Bert was wondering if one of the cows might not chase the boy. Bert didn't really want to see the boy hurt by a cow, of course, but he thought that if the cow was going to take after the boy, anyhow, he might just as well see it. But the cows were very well-behaved, and went along slowly.
Either/Or, passage 86
In the book called "The Bobbsey Twins in the Country," I wrote down many of the things that happened during the summer.
Either/Or, passage 265
"And I do hope we can keep him forever!" exclaimed Freddie. "'Specially since Snoop is gone."
Either/Or, passage 185
"Please, papa," pleaded Freddie. "We haven't got Snoop now, so let us have a dog. And I'm sure we could teach him to do tricks--he's so smart."
Either/Or, passage 611
"I'll get my little pocket electric light," said Bert. He had one, and it gave a good light. He went to his room for it.
Either/Or, passage 422
Bert and Charley got a long plank from the lumber yard, and spent much time after school in the Bobbsey barn, working over their bob sled. It was harder than they had thought it would be, and they had to call in some other boys to help them. Mr. Bobbsey, too, gave his son some advice about how to build it.
Either/Or, passage 285
"Don't mind him, Freddie," said Bert in a low voice. "He's trying to scare you."
Either/Or, passage 341
"I'm going to sit with Freddie," declared Flossie. "We're to be together--mamma said so."
Either/Or, passage 395
"No, I'm going to treat them, too," insisted Nellie. "Come on!" she called to the little twins, "we're going to get ice cream cones, it's so warm."
Either/Or, passage 397
"Yep--I am. Mamma said I could, but she told me not to tell. I don't care, I wanted Nellie to know, as she's going to treat us to cones."
Either/Or, passage 438
"Pooh!" exclaimed Bert "Mamma's too busy to come to a picnic to-day. She's expecting company."
Either/Or, passage 19
"Yes, I think you and Freddie will start school regularly this term," said Mrs. Bobbsey, "and, if it can be arranged, you may sit together. We'll see about that. Be careful Freddie, don't put your head out of the window," she cautioned quickly, for the little chap had turned in his seat again, and was leaning forward to see a horse galloping about a field, kicking up its heels at the sound of the puffing engine.
Either/Or, passage 115
"I'll look," said Mr. Bobbsey, quickly "That cup is too valuable to lose. Come, children, we'll see if we can't find Snoop also, and then we'll take a trolley car for home."
Either/Or, passage 711
"Not at all," answered Dorothy. "The sea is never lonesome for me. It always seems to be telling me something, Winter or Summer."
Either/Or, passage 333
One fact consoled the Bobbseys in their trouble over their lost pet and cup. This was the answer received by Mr. Bobbsey from Mr. Peterson. That gentleman had lost a valuable dog, but it was a small poodle, and unlike big Snap. So far no one had claimed the trick dog, and it seemed likely that the children could keep him. They were very glad about this.
Either/Or, passage 329
"But some one may come along and claim him," said Freddie. "That Danny Rugg says he belongs to Mr. Peterson in Millville, father," said Bert.
Either/Or, passage 550
"You are not!" cried Freddie. "Our mamma wouldn't let a boy like you come to our party."
Either/Or, passage 108
"I--I hope an elephant didn't step on him," said Flossie, with a catch in her breath.
Either/Or, passage 822
But few others, save those who hoped for a ride on it, agreed with the bully, and Bert's home-made bob was held to be champion of the hill.
Either/Or, passage 210
"I'll take 'em," said Sam kindly. "Many a time I'se carried 'em in offen de porch when dey falled asleep. I'll carry 'em in."
Either/Or, passage 211
And he did, first taking Flossie, and then Freddie. Then he and Dinah brought in the bundles and valises, while Nan and Bert and Mr. and Mrs. Bobbsey followed, having bidden good-night to Mr. Blake, and thanking him for the ride.
Either/Or, passage 250
That afternoon a small fire broke out in Mr. Bobbsey's lumber yard. The alarm bell rang, and Mrs. Bobbsey, hearing it, and knowing by the number that the blaze must be near her husband's place of business, came hurrying down stairs.
Either/Or, passage 703
But I am getting a little ahead of my story. A few days before Thanksgiving Mrs. Bobbsey, with a letter in her hand, came to where the four twins were in the sitting room, talking over what they wanted for Christmas.
Either/Or, passage 161
"Yes, yes, of course I will," said Mr. Bobbsey quickly. He did not want the children to fret now, with still quite a distance yet to go home, and that in a trolley car. There were bundles to carry, weary children to look after, and Mrs. Bobbsey was rather tired also. No wonder Papa Bobbsey thought he had many things to do that night.
Either/Or, passage 625
"Well, we'll keep on this way in a straight line," suggested Bert. "Maybe they took the freezer down back of our berry bushes to eat the cream."