John Gray: A Kentucky Tale of the Olden TimeLippincott, 1892 - 218 strani |
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... lives, as a drop of dew on the edge of a leaf draws into itself the majesty and solemnity of the heavens. From the right pommel of the side-saddle there dangled a heavy roll of homespun linen, which she was taking to town to her aunt s ...
... lives, as a drop of dew on the edge of a leaf draws into itself the majesty and solemnity of the heavens. From the right pommel of the side-saddle there dangled a heavy roll of homespun linen, which she was taking to town to her aunt s ...
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... lives, — what is it but the imperfection of our planning and our doing ? Shattered ideals, — what hand shatters them but one's own ? I declare to you at this moment, standing here in the clear light of my own past, that I firmly believe ...
... lives, — what is it but the imperfection of our planning and our doing ? Shattered ideals, — what hand shatters them but one's own ? I declare to you at this moment, standing here in the clear light of my own past, that I firmly believe ...
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... live by." "You wrong her! You do not do her justice!" he said, hastily, his instinct of loyalty urging him to defend her. " But perhaps no woman can ever understand why a man loves any other woman !" " I am not thinking of why you love ...
... live by." "You wrong her! You do not do her justice!" he said, hastily, his instinct of loyalty urging him to defend her. " But perhaps no woman can ever understand why a man loves any other woman !" " I am not thinking of why you love ...
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... lives before she lets us really begin to live. His eye lit upon a wee chubby-cheeked urchin on the end of a high hard bench, and he fell to counting how many long years must pass before that unsuspicious grub would grow his palpitating ...
... lives before she lets us really begin to live. His eye lit upon a wee chubby-cheeked urchin on the end of a high hard bench, and he fell to counting how many long years must pass before that unsuspicious grub would grow his palpitating ...
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... lives, — never to be over-hasty or over-confident, never to go forward without knowing the ground you are to tread, or throw yourself into a conflict without learning the nature of the enemy, — he was doing this, and at the same time ...
... lives, — never to be over-hasty or over-confident, never to go forward without knowing the ground you are to tread, or throw yourself into a conflict without learning the nature of the enemy, — he was doing this, and at the same time ...
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Stran 5 - And Jobab died ; and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead. 35. And Husham died ; and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead ; and the name of his city was Avith.
Stran 49 - Words, Facts, and Phrases : A Dictionary of Curious, Quaint, and Out-of-the-Way Matters. By ELIEZER EDWARDS.
Stran 767 - The occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers...
Stran 32 - THIS inimitable series of volumes is absolutely unique, there being nothing approaching to them in all the wide range of modern or ancient literature. Written by Mr. Surtees, a well-known country gentleman, who was passionately devoted to the healthy sport of fox-hunting, and gifted with a keen spirit of manly humour of a Rabelaisian tinge, they abound with incidents redolent of mirth and jollity.
Stran 49 - Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Giving the Derivation, Source, or Origin of Common Phrases, Allusions, and Words that have a Tale to Tell.
Stran 11 - The illustrations are perfectly correct anatomical studies, and do not reproduce the inaccuracies which experience has taught us to look for in works of a similar kind. Some of the plates, especially those of the anatomy of the chest, are of great excellence.
Stran 782 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Stran 769 - Of what use will this be for agricultural purposes? I would not, for that purpose, give a pinch of snuff for the whole territory.
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Stran 763 - no other means of putting an end to the ambition of the Americans than that of shutting them up within the limits which Nature seems to have traced for them ; but Spain is not in a condition to do this great work alone. She cannot, therefore, hasten too quickly to engage the aid of a preponderating Power, yielding to it a small part of her immense domains in order to preserve the rest.