John Halifax, GentlemanHarper, 1859 - 485 Seiten |
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... morning . " " How far have you come ? " " From the foot of those hills - I forget what they call them - over there . I have seen bigger ones - but they are steep enough - bleak and cold , too , especially when one is lying out among the ...
... morning . " " How far have you come ? " " From the foot of those hills - I forget what they call them - over there . I have seen bigger ones - but they are steep enough - bleak and cold , too , especially when one is lying out among the ...
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... morning , noon , and night slipped wearily away , marked by no changes , save from daylight to candlelight , from candlelight to dawn . Afterwards , as my pain abated , I began to be haunted by occasional memories of something pleasant ...
... morning , noon , and night slipped wearily away , marked by no changes , save from daylight to candlelight , from candlelight to dawn . Afterwards , as my pain abated , I began to be haunted by occasional memories of something pleasant ...
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... morning , mild as spring , coaxing a wandering robin to come and sing to me , loud as a quire of birds , out of the thinned trees of the Abbey - yard . I opened the window to hear him , though all the while in mortal fear of Jael . I ...
... morning , mild as spring , coaxing a wandering robin to come and sing to me , loud as a quire of birds , out of the thinned trees of the Abbey - yard . I opened the window to hear him , though all the while in mortal fear of Jael . I ...
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... morning early I take a plunge and a swim in the stream , and that makes me warm all day . " I shivered - I who feared the touch of cold water . Yet there , with all his hardships , he stood before me , the model of healthy boyhood ...
... morning early I take a plunge and a swim in the stream , and that makes me warm all day . " I shivered - I who feared the touch of cold water . Yet there , with all his hardships , he stood before me , the model of healthy boyhood ...
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... morning the water seems to have made itself a fresh channel . Look at that one , by the willow - tree - how savagely it pours ! " " Oh , we at Norton Bury are used to floods . " " Are they ever very serious ? ” " Have been - but not in ...
... morning the water seems to have made itself a fresh channel . Look at that one , by the willow - tree - how savagely it pours ! " " Oh , we at Norton Bury are used to floods . " " Are they ever very serious ? ” " Have been - but not in ...
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Abel Fletcher answered asked Beechwood better boys Brithwood brother child daughter dear derley door Edwin Enderley eyes face fancy father feel gentleman gone Guy's hand happy hear heard heart honor husband Jael Jessop John Halifax John's Kingswell knew Lady Caroline Lady Hamilton laughed listened little Muriel live Longfield looked Lord Luxmore Lord Ravenel marriage married Mary Baines Maud mill mind minute Miss March Miss Silver morning mother Muriel never night Norton Bury Oldtower once pain parlor perhaps Phineas Fletcher poor quiet rose round seemed silence Sir Ralph smile spoke stood sure talking tan-yard tell thank thee things thought to-day to-morrow Tod's told took turned Uncle Phineas Ursula voice walk watching wife wish woman wonder word young youth
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Seite 15 - I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Beth-lehemite. And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Seite 106 - His certain life, that never can deceive him, Is full of thousand sweets, and rich content : The smooth-leaved beeches in the field receive him With coolest shades, till...
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Seite 105 - Thrice, oh! thrice happy, shepherd's life and state! When courts are happiness, unhappy pawns! His cottage low and safely humble gate Shuts out proud Fortune, with her scorns and fawns. No feared treason breaks his quiet sleep ; Singing all day, his flocks he learns to keep, Himself as innocent as are his simple sheep. No...
Seite 93 - ... seemed to know: but I missed my man from behind the tree — nor found him till after the angry throng had rushed on to the nearest lamp. One of them was left behind, standing close to our own railings. He looked round to see if none were by, and then sprung over the gate. Dark as it was, I thought I recognized him. " John ? " " Phineas ?
Seite 93 - " Jael; she is as good as a host of constables; she has braved the fellows once to-night, but they're back again, or will be directly." " And the mill ? " "Safe, as yet; I have had three of the tanyard men there since yesterday morning, though your father did not know. I have been going to and fro all night between there and here, waiting till the rioters should come back from the Severn mills. Hist ! here they are — I say, Jael ?
Seite 1 - The Greek Testament: with a critically revised Text; a Digest of Various Readings; Marginal References to verbal and Idiomatic Usage; Prolegomena; and a Critical and Exegetical Commentary. For the Use of Theological Students and Ministers, By HENRY ALFORD, DD, Dean of Canterbury. Vol. I., containing the Four Gospels. 944 pages, Svo, Cloth, $6 00; Sheep, $6 50.
Seite 87 - Name that, young man as he was, I had never yet heard irreverently and thoughtlessly on his lips. It was a sight that would move any one to cry for pity unto the Great Father of the human family. Abel Fletcher sat on his remaining bags, in an exhaustion that I think was not all physical pain. The paroxysm of anger past, he, ever a just man, could not fail to be struck with what he had done. He seemed subdued, even to something like remorse. John looked at him, and looked away. For a minute he listened...
Seite 94 - ... though I would not discredit her among our peaceful Society by positively stating the fact. " Bravo ! " said John, when we stood all together in the barricaded house and heard the threatening murmur of voices and feet outside. " Bravo, Jael ! The wife of Heber the Kenite -was no braver woman than you." She looked gratified, and followed John obediently from room to room. " I have done all as thee bade me ; thee art a sensible lad, John Halifax. We are secure, I think." Secure? bolts and bars...