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The Mark Of The Knife

Auhtor: Clayton Ernst

Language: english
Published: 1920

Genres:

young readers
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eBook size: 182Kb

Review by Joanna Daneman, December 2010


Rating: (*****)
Copyright: Public Domain in the U.S.
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Excerpts from the Book 'The Mark Of The Knife':

... I'd bet my backbone would have been broken into forty pieces, he said. Oh, what a pippin of a thump.. Teeny-bits liked Turner's frank, outspoken ...
... followed Teeny-bits' first appearance on the football field, more than one candidate for the team made it a point to be present in the shower-bath ...
... a tone which suggested that he was imitating:. He's blowin' and puffin' a mite, but I guess he ain't injured none, and I reckon as how he'll pull ...
... across the field. Two Wilton players converged on Teeny-bits from the other side and one of them made a desperate tackle. Teeny-bits used his straight ...
... a blissful expression that Teeny-bits felt all constraint and uneasiness slip suddenly away. You can't beat it anywhere in this world, he said ...
... try to pass Neil and me. See what you can do to keep us guessing and when you use your straight arm remember to throw your hips don't stand up stiff ...
... was open stretching downward from it was one of the fire-escape ropes with which each room was equipped. Some one was letting himself downward by sitting ...
... Stevens in matters that concerned his personal relationship with the members of the school. He had a great respect for the English master's understanding ...
... along come a spell o' weather and every day for a week he said it was going to rain, and I'll be singed if there was a cloud in the sky all through them ...
... white buildings on the hill and the stars, sending down their radiance from a clear sky, presaged fair weather for the great contest. The light was ...
... who were quick to realize that Durant had been given the responsibility for stopping their captain. When Norris carried the ball, Neil, coming in swiftly ...
... the captain of the Jefferson team. It was perfect interference and although Teeny-bits felt somewhat as if he had come in contact with a charging locomotive ...
... A terrific run by the captain planted the ball on the Ridgley four-yard line for a first down, and there was no person shouting for the purple who ...
... skies upon the scene of revelry. Only two members of Ridgley School were absent from the celebration and no one at the time missed them,-Tracey Campbell, ...
... behind the dormitory.. Turner, said the English master, you've told me something that I am more than glad to hear. It clears up one element in ...
... a startling exemplification of that old saying: Like father, like son. When they talked to him it was as if they were talking to Whirlwind Bassett ...
... the score at the crucial moment and how the other fellow carried the ball across at the end of the game.. Almost before Teeny-bits realized it ...
... at us, wouldn't he. said one of the Williams brothers we'd better go back and look around.. It was not a difficult matter even in the indistinct ...
... with their eyes but had not stirred:. Maybe you've read of the devilish ingenuity of some of these Chinese brigands-there are wild stories and some ...
... was able to get about, going down the Yangtse in a river boat. But again I was too late. When I arrived I discovered that this Miss Singleton had gone ...