Two Sides of the AtlanticSimpkin, Marshall, 1880 - 325 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alpaca American amongst amusement asked Barnacles astrologer Barney bell billiard blue-fish Bradford Bradfordian BURNLEY called carriage cents cigar Coal Hole Colorado Colorado Springs colour comfort crowd drink England English eyes face factory Falls feet fellow fortune-telling gentleman hand head hear heard Heathen Chinee hour imagine Indian Inman Line lady live look mighty miles mills minutes morning mountain nacles negro never Niagara nigger once papers passed passengers play prairie present railway rats river Robert Collyer round rush saloons Sambo scene seat seemed seen shoo's side Sims Reeves sing sitting smoking soon spirit stand Staten Island station steamboats streets Sunday night talk tell there's thing told town Trimmy turned Tuscarora Reservation varry Vault voice walk wanted wonderful Yankee York young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 153 - Glared a blood-red through all its thousand courts, Arches, and domes, and fiery galleries...
Seite 271 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Seite 235 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war...
Seite 161 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Seite 285 - Eq.) 655, 682, when he called them "mischievous nonsense, well calculated, on the one hand, to delude the vain, the weak, the foolish and the superstitious; and on the other, to assist the projects of the needy and of the adventurer...
Seite 203 - This famed metropolis, where fancy sees Squares in morasses, obelisks in trees ; Which travelling fools and gazetteers adorn With shrines unbuilt and heroes yet unborn.
Seite 70 - ... by persons carefully selected for their ability to influence this class of work-people, and for their established good character, who will take an interest to secure the comfort of their boarders, and save them from bad moral influences, acting really, as far as possible, in the place of guardians. If a young female is known to visit places of evening amusement of doubtful character, or gives any reason for suspicion that she is guilty of immorality, or even of careless, unguarded conduct, she...
Seite 118 - Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised Thee, is burned up with fire : and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Seite 94 - Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, The house for me, no doubt, were a house in the city-square. Ah, such a life, such a life, as one leads at the window there...
Seite 206 - The Declaration of Independence," " The Surrender of General Burgoyne," " The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis," " General Washington resigning his Commission," " The Embarkation of the Pilgrims.