Blackie's graded readers, ed. by M. Paterson, Teil 6Maurice Paterson 1880 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
animal ants beautiful bees Binnock birds Black Douglas body bright butterfly Buxton Cairo called castle caterpillar child close cloth cloud cold colours Columbia River crab cuckoo dark dead Dictation:-The Duke of Austria earth eggs England exercise in spelling father fear feet fire fish flowers flying forest Gemsé gentle gorilla hand heard heaven hippopotamus hour insects John Hull kind king lake leopard lesson lesson:-In lesson:-What light lion live look miles moon morning mother mountain musquitoes nest never night o'er once passed portcullis quadrupeds Questions river roar round Roxburgh Castle rushed salmon seemed seen shillings shore sight sing snow Somebody's soon sound stars things thou thousand traveller tree Uncle John watch Wetterhorn wind wings wolves words Write young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 186 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Seite 154 - It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak, She ran upon no rock.
Seite 162 - No, no! from out the forest prance A trampling troop; I see them come! In one vast squadron they advance! I strove to cry, — my lips were dumb.
Seite 242 - Mountjoy rebounded, and stuck in the mud. A yell of triumph rose from the banks : the Irish rushed to their boats, and were preparing to board : but the Dartmouth poured on them a well directed broadside which threw them into disorder.
Seite 155 - His sword was in its sheath, His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down With twice four hundred men.
Seite 73 - The shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of the cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though quite conscious of all that was happening.
Seite 14 - Twas pity Nature brought ye forth Merely to show your worth, And lose you quite. But you are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon things have Their end, though ne'er so brave : And after they have shown their pride Like you, awhile, they glide Into the grave.
Seite 18 - I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being (thought I) who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures...
Seite 159 - Miss Betsey — or Mrs. Sewell, as we must now call her — did as she was bid, like a dutiful child, without any question of the why and wherefore. But what her father could mean, unless to make her husband pay for her by the pound (in which case she would have been a dear bargain), she had not the least idea. "And now," said honest John Hull to the servants, "bring that box hither.
Seite 160 - The servants tugged with might and main, but could not lift this enormous receptacle, and were finally obliged to drag it across the floor. Captain Hull then took a key from his girdle, unlocked the chest, and lifted its ponderous lid.