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... coming away ; home without it . And I've been thinking , Olive , we must begin at once to spin some of our finest wool , or even some flax , if there's still to be had in the island , to make Robert some light socks for the warm summers ...
... coming away ; home without it . And I've been thinking , Olive , we must begin at once to spin some of our finest wool , or even some flax , if there's still to be had in the island , to make Robert some light socks for the warm summers ...
Page 97
... coming to eat me up , and even tried to strike him . ' ( Tom went to sleep , soothed and comforted . He had not been quite unimpeachable in his knowledge of The Catechism , with Proofs . ' He had been addicted to sit beside his father ...
... coming to eat me up , and even tried to strike him . ' ( Tom went to sleep , soothed and comforted . He had not been quite unimpeachable in his knowledge of The Catechism , with Proofs . ' He had been addicted to sit beside his father ...
Page 153
... coming to put his feet under the mahogany of his dining - room in Ormolu Square , Kensington . Tom was not very eager to accept the invitation . Perhaps he lacked a laudable desire to see society in all its phases ; perhaps he believed ...
... coming to put his feet under the mahogany of his dining - room in Ormolu Square , Kensington . Tom was not very eager to accept the invitation . Perhaps he lacked a laudable desire to see society in all its phases ; perhaps he believed ...
Page 175
... as it used to be . In old Leisk's father's time , the laird got half the value of a shoal . At that rate , I should have got £ 450 to - day instead of £ 300 . ' ' Oh , but the common people are coming to IN ORMOLU SQUARE . 175.
... as it used to be . In old Leisk's father's time , the laird got half the value of a shoal . At that rate , I should have got £ 450 to - day instead of £ 300 . ' ' Oh , but the common people are coming to IN ORMOLU SQUARE . 175.
Page 189
... coming from them would not be spoiled in less than two or three years ; but I'm afraid that love of dress , and of pleasure , and of idleness is inherent in the lower classes . Really , Jane had not been in London for more than a month ...
... coming from them would not be spoiled in less than two or three years ; but I'm afraid that love of dress , and of pleasure , and of idleness is inherent in the lower classes . Really , Jane had not been in London for more than a month ...
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Aldersyde answered asked beautiful believe Ben Hanson better Bible Black Brander Captain Carson cashie character Christmas Clegga Farm Dan Corbett dark daughter dear duty Ellon Etta eyes face father fear feeling felt friends gave girl give glad Grace Allan hand Hannah heard heart hope human interest island Jane kindly Kirkwall Kirsty Mail Kirsty's knew lady laughed Lerwick lived London looked master mind Miss mother never night Olive Ollison once one's Ormolu Square peat Penman's Row perhaps Peter Sandison poor Preston Tower pretty quiet Quodda Robert Sinclair scarcely Scottish seemed shawl Shetland silent smile sort Stockley story strange sundry sure tell there's things thought told Tom Ollison TOM SCOTT Tom waited Tom's true turned walk wife window woman wonder words young Yunson
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Page 78 - Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ...
Page 302 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
Page 78 - With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men: Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall be receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
Page 310 - The central figure in the narrative is Miss Janet Nesbit, of Aldersyde, a young gentlewoman who is early called to a life of self-sacrifice. This she humbly accepts, working out the problem with so much sincerity and faithfulness that the grey morning is followed by a bright day.
Page 175 - Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner Eating a Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said, "What a good boy am I!
Page 312 - The pages are full of pen portraits, which must have been drawn from nature. Mission-work, as presented to us in this little volume, means very much more than a good story. The Christian heart, yearning over the...
Page 312 - A capitally written sketch of Scottish city life among the humbler classes.' — Christian. ' The story is an incident of city mission-work, and it is capitally told. It is a book which should find a place in every Sunday school or temperance library.
Page 310 - Hurrah ! our good Scotch stories, with their dear rough old vernacular, are not going to die out just yet, or, if at all, they are going to die hard.
Page 310 - A book we must read through at a sitting. It lays hold of our interest in the first page, and sustains it to the end.' — Daily Review. ' Deserves to occupy a prominent and permanent place among Scottish works of imagination. . . . Not a dull page in the book ; while...