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...e Liquid of Petrifaction which has turned his beloved uncle Unc Nunkie and the wife of the Liquid's creator into marble statues. Ojo is joined by the patchwork girl Scraps, Dorothy, Dr. Pipt's Glass Cat, the Woozy, the Shaggy Man, the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman. They eventually visit the Emerald City to ask for help from the Wizard of Oz. (Summary by Daniel Anaya)...

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...ants were only interested in hearing more Oz stories. So in 1913, he returned to writing about Oz, putting out both The Little Wizard Stories and The Patchwork Girl of Oz that year. According to http://www.eskimo.com/~tiktok/faq06.html this comprehensive Oz FAQ site , The Little Wizard Stories were geared toward younger children and were originally published separately, si...

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...rce the stubborn rainfall that swathed my windowpanes. Arrayed in heavy overcoat, I sat, a patchwork quilt of light and shade. Or fully dressed, pr...

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...he side, and Dutch cocoa for all. Morgan sliced the apples and watched the patchwork of gestures, facial expressions, and words that formed the comm... ... boats, the great blue bowl of the sky arching above it, and all around the patchwork greens and golds of the valley. It seemed a kingdom where all ... ...a dripping with blooms, into the bright sunshine that buttered the fields of patchwork green. They’d top a hill bathed in sunlight and reach its val...

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...blue coat, dusty and marked by bloodstains. The three wore hunting vests, patchwork fur pants and fingers thick with rings; loyalty to the Master sa...

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...published an elegiac list: "Twenty years ago, cable television was dominated by a patchwork of thousands of tiny, family-operated companies. Today...

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...businesses. In the long run this will not be good for business as a whole. A patchwork of private toll roads is an economic nightmare. That is not the...

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... anything made by tools? What value do you put on tools? It is a crazy-quilt patchwork with huge missing gaps. Human life-energy was never meant t...

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...mend it. Like all truly idle people, he had an artistic eye. He 45 chose the print stuff for his wife’s dresses, and coun- sel... ...e next afternoon, I strolled down to Rufe’s and consulted him on the subject. It was a very droll interview, in the large, bare north room of the Silv...

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... together some of the more striking particularities of the Marquesas. It rests upon no authority; it is in no sense, like “Rahero,” a native story; bu...

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...ten of his own long associa- tion with an intensely living little mind. From Morgan he heard half a dozen times: the boy wrote charming young letters,...

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...d him back. So he crammed a great silver watch into his fob, and drew on a patchwork morning-gown of an ancient fashion. Its original material was sai...

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... thing in Scotland) are models of internal neatness; the beds adorned with patchwork, the shelves arrayed with willow-pattern plates, the floors and t...

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...nk in deep draughts as I reproduce the heavenly music that I hear! It is a patchwork of airs of which I could trace the origin. The passage ‘Gloire a ...

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...nterest of this con tinent to be so; that every thing short of THAT is mere patchwork, that it can afford no lasting felicity, —that it is leaving th...

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... sand, on the floor; with the bare stone walls and the bare wooden floor, and the three patchwork rugs that were of yore its sole adorn- ment – poor m...

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...urther direction. Parload’s truckle bed hid its gray sheets beneath an old patchwork counterpane on one side of the room, and veiled his boxes and suc... ...red in on her bed and gave her a cold, and stained and soaked her poor old patchwork counterpane. Then she got me to compose an excessively polite let...

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...s and cities with either no nationality or with as much nation- ality as a patchwork quilt has colour…. Now so far as the homogeneous regions of the w...

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...ss, using her high authority, reserved to herself the meditation over this patchwork. She was occupied dur- ing ten days, praying, and sewing the said...

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...han their share of the Puritanism, which, however di versified with later patchwork, still gives its prevailing tint to New England character),—here ...