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... began , " who are you going to put in that there hole ? " " It's a man as fell down dead last week ; he was a hard- working fellow , that he was , " said the grave - digger ; for he always liked to give people a good word when he was ...
... began , " who are you going to put in that there hole ? " " It's a man as fell down dead last week ; he was a hard- working fellow , that he was , " said the grave - digger ; for he always liked to give people a good word when he was ...
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... began , as she fancied , to understand grave - digging nearly as well as he did . But she sometimes puzzled the old man by her questions , for Dot always wanted to know everything about all that she saw . " Mr. Solemn , " she said , one ...
... began , as she fancied , to understand grave - digging nearly as well as he did . But she sometimes puzzled the old man by her questions , for Dot always wanted to know everything about all that she saw . " Mr. Solemn , " she said , one ...
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... began to look upon it as a necessary finish to his work . He often thought Dot was like a daisy herself , so fresh and bright she was ; he wondered at himself when he reckoned how much he loved her . For his own little girl had been ...
... began to look upon it as a necessary finish to his work . He often thought Dot was like a daisy herself , so fresh and bright she was ; he wondered at himself when he reckoned how much he loved her . For his own little girl had been ...
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... began to cry and sob as if her heart would break . " Don't cry , Dot , " said the old man ; " maybe the little girl knows nothing about it - maybe she's asleep like . " But Dot's tears only flowed the faster . For she felt sure if the ...
... began to cry and sob as if her heart would break . " Don't cry , Dot , " said the old man ; " maybe the little girl knows nothing about it - maybe she's asleep like . " But Dot's tears only flowed the faster . For she felt sure if the ...
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... began to talk about " that troublesome donkey . " But Jim turned to me with the words , " I believe , sir , I have you to thank for speaking as you did at dinner - time , for else I don't know but that I might not have got myself into ...
... began to talk about " that troublesome donkey . " But Jim turned to me with the words , " I believe , sir , I have you to thank for speaking as you did at dinner - time , for else I don't know but that I might not have got myself into ...
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Page 249 - Hast thou not known ? hast thou not heard, That the everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Fainteth not, neither is weary ? There is no searching of his understanding.
Page 254 - And if my heart and flesh are weak To bear an untried pain, The bruised reed he will not break, But strengthen and sustain.
Page 219 - Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord? Where is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word? 3 What peaceful hours I once enjoyed! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
Page 254 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Page 121 - Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
Page 221 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace ,unto the hearers.
Page 152 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord...
Page 220 - When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Page 242 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering: for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind, and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
Page 262 - Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.