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... knew what she was doing . To her surprise the ground was white with snow . " It was bright moonlight , almost as light as day . the yard , with some outbuildings and a great turf corner , all covered deep with snow . She could see stack ...
... knew what she was doing . To her surprise the ground was white with snow . " It was bright moonlight , almost as light as day . the yard , with some outbuildings and a great turf corner , all covered deep with snow . She could see stack ...
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... knew the road well , but all tracks were obliterated in the universal whiteness . A low wall of rough stones guided and screened her till she came out on the shoulder of the hill - on the very spot , she remembered , where Barry had ...
... knew the road well , but all tracks were obliterated in the universal whiteness . A low wall of rough stones guided and screened her till she came out on the shoulder of the hill - on the very spot , she remembered , where Barry had ...
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... knew . It seemed warm and safe under the snow , and she might have dozed her life away had not little Con stirred with a sharp cry like a little hurt bird . She , even in falling , had sheltered him instinctively , and he lay snug ...
... knew . It seemed warm and safe under the snow , and she might have dozed her life away had not little Con stirred with a sharp cry like a little hurt bird . She , even in falling , had sheltered him instinctively , and he lay snug ...
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Paid [ the rent , or " How can I tell ? They never knew . refused to join some blackguardly secret brotherhood most likely . " What became of the baby ? " I asked like " the Cheshire Cat . " " The baby is our senior Major , and goes to ...
Paid [ the rent , or " How can I tell ? They never knew . refused to join some blackguardly secret brotherhood most likely . " What became of the baby ? " I asked like " the Cheshire Cat . " " The baby is our senior Major , and goes to ...
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... knew not how . He bowed his noble head in silent farewell ; he went , and I remained standing where he left me , listening to his firm slow step as he crossed the vestibule . Then I heard the front door bang , and knew that he was ...
... knew not how . He bowed his noble head in silent farewell ; he went , and I remained standing where he left me , listening to his firm slow step as he crossed the vestibule . Then I heard the front door bang , and knew that he was ...
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Seite 340 - And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep...
Seite 533 - Here woman reigns; the mother, daughter, wife, Strews with fresh flowers the narrow way of life! In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel-guard of loves and graces lie! Around her knees domestic .duties meet, And fireside pleasures gambol at her feet. Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found?
Seite 151 - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function. Each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, That all your acts are queens.
Seite 523 - ... again and is hungry, he is again fed and is at rest. I am hungry and thirsty like him, but when thirst and hunger cease I am not at rest; I am, like him, pained with want, but am not, like him, satisfied with fulness.
Seite 523 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Seite 48 - A fouler vision yet; an age of light, Light without love, glares on the aching sight: O who can tell how calm and sweet, Meek Walton ! shews thy green retreat, When wearied with the tale thy times disclose, The eye first finds thee out in thy secure repose...
Seite 523 - Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?
Seite 448 - He loved gaming the most of any man of business I ever knew ; and gave one reason for it, because it delivered him from the obligation to talk much.
Seite 509 - He pull'd out his pipes and play'd her a tune, And bade the cow consider. The cow considered very well, And gave the piper a penny, And bade him play the other tune, "Corn rigs are bonny.
Seite 147 - I do not know whether I am on my head or my heels — that he should scull me in some little cockle-shell — a dinghy, he calls it — he and I, and nobody by, you know," with a laugh of annoyance ; " and I positively dare not tell the others.