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... walk , timed by the walk of grazing beasts , moved aside , as if unwillingly , throwing out a monosyllabic hint to his cattle ; his glance , accustomed to rest on things very near the earth , seemed to lift itself with difficulty to the ...
... walk , timed by the walk of grazing beasts , moved aside , as if unwillingly , throwing out a monosyllabic hint to his cattle ; his glance , accustomed to rest on things very near the earth , seemed to lift itself with difficulty to the ...
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... walking queerly with knees bent outward from squatting in the mine , going home to throw themselves down in their blackened flannel and sleep through the daylight , then rise and spend much of their high wages at the ale - house with ...
... walking queerly with knees bent outward from squatting in the mine , going home to throw themselves down in their blackened flannel and sleep through the daylight , then rise and spend much of their high wages at the ale - house with ...
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... front of the house , where there was a parterre kept with some neatness , grass had spread itself over the gravel walks and over all the low mounds once carefully cut as black beds for the shrubs 12 FELIX HOLT CHAPTER I. ...
... front of the house , where there was a parterre kept with some neatness , grass had spread itself over the gravel walks and over all the low mounds once carefully cut as black beds for the shrubs 12 FELIX HOLT CHAPTER I. ...
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... walks , and hopped about in per- fect tranquillity ; even a stray rabbit sat nibbling a leaf that was to its liking , in the middle of a grassy space , with an air that seemed quite impudent in so timid a creature . No sound was to be ...
... walks , and hopped about in per- fect tranquillity ; even a stray rabbit sat nibbling a leaf that was to its liking , in the middle of a grassy space , with an air that seemed quite impudent in so timid a creature . No sound was to be ...
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... walk to the entrance - door . She quivering and listening ; her limbs became pale , were cold and trembling . Was her son reall She was far beyond fifty ; and since her early in this best - loved boy the harvest of her life scanty ...
... walk to the entrance - door . She quivering and listening ; her limbs became pale , were cold and trembling . Was her son reall She was far beyond fifty ; and since her early in this best - loved boy the harvest of her life scanty ...
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Page 251 - What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap'd For truth to over-peer, — Rather than fool it so, Let the high office and the honour go To one that would do thus.
Page 146 - I say the truth in Christ; I lie not, (my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,) that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh...
Page 358 - ... good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Page 66 - For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool : for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
Page 146 - Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh : who are Israelites ; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises : whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, Who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Page 301 - Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore Alone upon the threshold of my door Of individual life, I shall command The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand Serenely in the sunshine as before, Without the sense of that which I forbore — Thy touch upon the palm. The widest land Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine With pulses that beat double. What I do And what I dream include thee, as the wine Must taste of its own grapes. And when I sue God for myself,...
Page 448 - A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills : to know that high initiation, she must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and watch through darknesg It is not true that love makes all things easy ; it makes us choose what is difficult.
Page 280 - His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder.
Page 50 - ... there is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life, from the time when the primeval milkmaid had to wander with the wanderings of her clan, because the cow she milked was one of a herd which had made the pastures bare.
Page 182 - For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities — a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces — a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.