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  • Standing here on the shore of the Atlantic, and contemplating certain of its largest literary billows, I am reminded of a thing which happened to me thirteen years ago, when I had just succeeded in stirring up a little Nevadian literary puddle myself, whose spume-flakes were beginning to blow thinly California-ward.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Standing here on the shore of the Atlantic and contemplating certain of its largest literary billows, I am reminded of a thing which happened to me thirteen years ago, when I had just succeeded in stirring up a little Nevadian literary puddle myself, whose spume-flakes were beginning to blow thinly Californiaward.

    The Story of a Speech 1910

  • Standing here on the shore of the Atlantic and contemplating certain of its largest literary billows, I am reminded of a thing which happened to me thirteen years ago, when I had just succeeded in stirring up a little Nevadian literary puddle myself, whose spume-flakes were beginning to blow thinly Californiaward.

    Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells. 1910

  • Standing here on the shore of the Atlantic, and contemplating certain of its largest literary billows, I am reminded of a thing which happened to me thirteen years ago, when I had just succeeded in stirring up a little Nevadian literary puddle myself, whose spume-flakes were beginning to blow thinly California-ward.

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • Standing here on the shore of the Atlantic, and contemplating certain of its largest literary billows, I am reminded of a thing which happened to me thirteen years ago, when I had just succeeded in stirring up a little Nevadian literary puddle myself, whose spume-flakes were beginning to blow thinly California-ward.

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • "I noticed," said the Nevadian, "that the statistics of Topaz City showed only one carpenter crushed by falling timbers last year and he was caught in a cyclone."

    Sixes and Sevens O. Henry 1886

  • Standing here on the shore of the Atlantic and contemplating certain of its largest literary billows, I am reminded of a thing which happened to me thirteen years ago, when I had just succeeded in stirring up a little Nevadian literary puddle myself, whose spume-flakes were beginning to blow thinly Californiaward.

    Mark Twain's Speeches Mark Twain 1872

  • Nevadian literary puddle myself, whose spume-flakes were beginning to blow thinly Californiawards.

    Chapters from My Autobiography Mark Twain 1872

  • As a fellow Nevadian, MichaelJB, I have to remind you that a couple of singular examples of some atheists acting charitable isn't a mound of evidence contradicting what Mr. Schlafly logically pointed out, as the evidence is overwhelming, and quite recently researched.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Aschlafly 2010

  • As a fellow Nevadian, MichaelJB, I have to remind you that a couple of singular examples of some atheists acting charitable isn't a mound of evidence contradicting what Mr. Schlafly logically pointed out, as the evidence is overwhelming, and quite recently researched.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] TheKing 2010

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