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... head on my knee ; " When my father comes hame frae the pleugh , " she said , " Oh ! please then waken me . " She slept like a child on her father's floor , In the flecking of woodbine shade , When the house dog sprawls by the half open ...
... head on my knee ; " When my father comes hame frae the pleugh , " she said , " Oh ! please then waken me . " She slept like a child on her father's floor , In the flecking of woodbine shade , When the house dog sprawls by the half open ...
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... head , And they turned to their guns once more . Then Jessie said , " The slogan's dune , But can ye no hear them , noo ? The Campbells are comin ! It's nae a dream , Our succors hae broken through ! " We heard the roar and the rattle ...
... head , And they turned to their guns once more . Then Jessie said , " The slogan's dune , But can ye no hear them , noo ? The Campbells are comin ! It's nae a dream , Our succors hae broken through ! " We heard the roar and the rattle ...
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... head . An ejaculation , not exactly religious , escaped me , and with a few desperate flounces I assumed once more the perpendicular . Fishing the frying - pan from the mud , and lashing the gridiron to my belt , I made another start ...
... head . An ejaculation , not exactly religious , escaped me , and with a few desperate flounces I assumed once more the perpendicular . Fishing the frying - pan from the mud , and lashing the gridiron to my belt , I made another start ...
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... head as if in their native element . The gridiron was in such rapid motion that it was impossible to distinguish the bars . There was , apparently , a whole litter of pigs in the pork- bag . I could not stand it longer . I concluded to ...
... head as if in their native element . The gridiron was in such rapid motion that it was impossible to distinguish the bars . There was , apparently , a whole litter of pigs in the pork- bag . I could not stand it longer . I concluded to ...
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... head . An ' Tom was shot at Gettysburg , in the hottest of the fray- They said thet he led his gallant boys like a hero thro ' thet day ; But they brought him back with his clear voice hushed in the silent sleep of death , An ' another ...
... head . An ' Tom was shot at Gettysburg , in the hottest of the fray- They said thet he led his gallant boys like a hero thro ' thet day ; But they brought him back with his clear voice hushed in the silent sleep of death , An ' another ...
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Seite 138 - HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!
Seite 94 - O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Seite 151 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
Seite 59 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? — To die, — to sleep ; — No more ; and, by a sleep, to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, — to sleep...
Seite 53 - THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior...
Seite 99 - ALL hail the power of Jesus' name ! Let angels prostrate fall ; Bring forth the royal diadem, And crown him Lord of all.
Seite 11 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Seite 45 - I will sing unto the Lord, for He hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea. " The Lord is my strength and song, and He is become my salvation : He is my God, and I will prepare Him an habitation ; my father's God and I will exalt Him.
Seite 36 - Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Seite 121 - For we know in part, and we prophesy in part ; but when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child ; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly ; but then face to face : now I know in part ; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three ; but the greatest of these is charity.