 The poor mother had been assisted to kneel down at the head of it. Her withered hands were clasped, as if in prayer, but I could perceive by a feeble rocking of the body, and a convulsive motion of...  Literary Criticisms and Other Papers - Stran 84avtor: Horace Binney Wallace - 1856 - 458 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Washington Irving, Haskell S. Springer - 1999 - 372 strani
..."George Somers, aged 26 Years." The poor mother had been assisted to kneel down at the head of it. Her withered hands were clasped as if in prayer, but...motion of the lips, that she was gazing on the last reliques of her son with the yearnings of a mother's heart. Preparations were made to deposit the coffin... | |
 | Andrew Burstein - 2008 - 432 strani
...mourning a twenty-six-year-old son the more affecting. In Irving's story, she sits beside the freshly dug grave: "Her withered hands were clasped, as if in...feeble rocking of the body and a convulsive motion of her lips that she was gazing on the last relics of her son with the yearnings of a mother's heart."... | |
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...' George Somers. aged 26 years." The poor mother had been assisted to kneel down at the head Qf it. Her withered hands were clasped as if in prayer, but...I could perceive, by a feeble rocking of the body, ana a convulsive motion of the lips, that she was gazing on the last relics of her son with the yearnings... | |
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