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... head a little and quickly said " Adsum ! " and fell back . It was the word we used at school when names are called ; and lo , he , whose heart was as that of a little child , had answered to his name , and stood in the presence of the ...
... head a little and quickly said " Adsum ! " and fell back . It was the word we used at school when names are called ; and lo , he , whose heart was as that of a little child , had answered to his name , and stood in the presence of the ...
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... head , his tie was red with gran dots . The coat witch he wore was a long tail preacher coat , with adulf dorgen buttens on each sleanse The trasers witch he bore , was Called peg top , and solled half way to his knees . His shoes and ...
... head , his tie was red with gran dots . The coat witch he wore was a long tail preacher coat , with adulf dorgen buttens on each sleanse The trasers witch he bore , was Called peg top , and solled half way to his knees . His shoes and ...
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... heads off daisies , no one saw them slip under the fence . 11. Whoever came to the door was kindly received , mother was the most truly hospitable person I ever knew . 12. The cactus bloomed on Christmas Day , it was a delicate pink ...
... heads off daisies , no one saw them slip under the fence . 11. Whoever came to the door was kindly received , mother was the most truly hospitable person I ever knew . 12. The cactus bloomed on Christmas Day , it was a delicate pink ...
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... heads ; and you be a roundhead well then he began afresh lets pretend were knights of the round table ; and ( with a rush ) ill be lancelot what is it inquired Charlotte , sitting up and shaking out her curls i stood spell - bound for a ...
... heads ; and you be a roundhead well then he began afresh lets pretend were knights of the round table ; and ( with a rush ) ill be lancelot what is it inquired Charlotte , sitting up and shaking out her curls i stood spell - bound for a ...
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... head of the depart- ment of English in The University of Chicago . 5. One letter from the widow of the late William H. Sawyer to her attorney ; another from her to the Pure Food Company , 87 Battle Avenue , Cincinnati . b . Write the ...
... head of the depart- ment of English in The University of Chicago . 5. One letter from the widow of the late William H. Sawyer to her attorney ; another from her to the Pure Food Company , 87 Battle Avenue , Cincinnati . b . Write the ...
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Page 74 - Tirra lirra,' by the river Sang Sir Lancelot. She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces thro...
Page 23 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 230 - These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing blossoms without end; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. "The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung! The word we had not sense to say — Who knows how grandly it had rung!
Page 120 - And now he feels the bottom ; Now on dry earth he stands; Now round him throng the Fathers To press his gory hands; And now with shouts and clapping, And noise of weeping loud, He enters through the River-Gate, Borne by the joyous crowd.
Page 76 - Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed...
Page 132 - Long as thine Art shall love true love, Long as thy Science truth shall know, Long as thine Eagle harms no Dove, Long as thy Law by law shall grow, Long as thy God is God above, Thy brother every man below, So long, dear Land of all my love, Thy name shall shine, thy fame shall glow !
Page 232 - Morn and eve, night and day, Have I piloted your bay, Entered free and anchored fast at the foot of Solidor. Burn the fleet and ruin France? That were worse than fifty Hogues! Sirs, they know I speak the truth! Sirs, believe me there's a way! Only let me lead the line, Have the biggest ship to steer, Get this Formidable...
Page 19 - Seaweed WHEN descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Storm-wind of the equinox, Landward in his wrath he scourges The toiling surges, Laden with seaweed from the rocks: From Bermuda's reefs; from edges Of sunken ledges, In some far-off, bright Azore; From Bahama, and the dashing, Silver-flashing Surges of San Salvador...
Page 172 - Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Page 118 - And the poplars tall ; And the barn's brown length, and the cattle-yard, And the white horns tossing above the wall.