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"But Jean Baptiste and Cecile were left to dreams more beautiful than most, for they were real"
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N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
"But Jean Baptiste and Cecile were left to dreams more beautiful than most, for they were real"
1909
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"But no," said Jean Baptiste, with a sudden forward step, "I offer Cecile five hundred dollars"
N.C. Wyeth
1909
The queen lounged restfully on the divan among the cushions, looking out at him under lowered lashes, like one who dreams
N.C. Wyeth
1923
He was a fine boy-an imaginative boy, with great dreams in his head.
N.C. Wyeth
1916
Memgumban, back in the steamy hills, was unhappy. The hills were sadly unimproved real estate. Trees full of pythons, jungles swarming with nasty little hill dwarfs who blew poisoned arrows at you as a pasttime.
N.C. Wyeth
1919
Then Jean would dream of the little pleasant cottage, the home he had sacrificed to God.
N.C. Wyeth
1917
"However, after six days o' restin' up, with salubrious fruits an' wines an' the most melojus concerts, my capt'n broaches the cause of why we're callin' on the Don Hidalgo Rodreego Cazamma."
N.C. Wyeth
1915
". . . . though these folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained the gravest faces, the most mysterious silence . . . ."
N.C. Wyeth
1921
"Send him back? Not a bit of it! We're going to hang him higher than Haman"
N.C. Wyeth
1912
Dreams of an Old Man
Peter Paone
1964
At the Cards in Cluny's Cage
But Alan and Cluny were most of the time at the cards
N.C. Wyeth
1913
Mr. Balfour, of the House of Shaws
What he was, whether by trade or birth, was more than I could fathom
N.C. Wyeth
1913
She leaned toward him with eyes shining more brightly than the moonlight in the wake of their canoe. "Oh, you're splendid."
N.C. Wyeth
1911
