Leisure HoursAllen, 1835 - 340 páginas |
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... remain , and go on doubling until I had won ten or twelve times in succession . " Now , " cried E- " I should advise you to pocket the affront , and be satisfied . " Adopting his counsel , I could hardly believe his assertion , or my ...
... remain , and go on doubling until I had won ten or twelve times in succession . " Now , " cried E- " I should advise you to pocket the affront , and be satisfied . " Adopting his counsel , I could hardly believe his assertion , or my ...
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... remains a bitter wedding . " After a few hours of rain , the two companions reached the valley , where a swollen and rapid torrent rushed across their path , which had swept away every vestige of the lit- tle bridge that led to the ...
... remains a bitter wedding . " After a few hours of rain , the two companions reached the valley , where a swollen and rapid torrent rushed across their path , which had swept away every vestige of the lit- tle bridge that led to the ...
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... remains to you . " With words of venom and execration , Hildebrand rush- ed out of the room , while , silent and terrified , the outraged Bernhard and his crowd of guests looked after him . " I am a dead man ! " at last exclaimed ...
... remains to you . " With words of venom and execration , Hildebrand rush- ed out of the room , while , silent and terrified , the outraged Bernhard and his crowd of guests looked after him . " I am a dead man ! " at last exclaimed ...
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... remain to close his accounts , and convert his large property into bills and specie , for the purpose of remitting it to London , when the whole party , Alvarez himself having no ties to bind him to his own country , should embark for ...
... remain to close his accounts , and convert his large property into bills and specie , for the purpose of remitting it to London , when the whole party , Alvarez himself having no ties to bind him to his own country , should embark for ...
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... remain at a dis- tance from him . ' " There are plenty of tales told , " re- plied Ruthard , " from which it seems that such intercourse has brought harm and perdition over both ; and it seems to me no guilt to kill such a creature ...
... remain at a dis- tance from him . ' " There are plenty of tales told , " re- plied Ruthard , " from which it seems that such intercourse has brought harm and perdition over both ; and it seems to me no guilt to kill such a creature ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Ahmed Almerich Alvarez astrologer aunt beautiful Betty Billy birds bless Cabul Cachemire Calum Dhu child cobbler countenance cried daughter dear death Don Julian door ducats Ebony Ermance exclaimed eyes face father fear fiddle followed fortune Frankenthall girl gold Hagbert hand happy hath head heard heart Heaven Henry Jenkins holy office honor horse hour husband Isfahan Jeronimo Jochonan John John Brown John Carson John Carty king knave knew Lacy lady Lisbon little Walter lived looked lord Loreley M'Gregors master mind morning mother never night noble Padua parasangs passed poor pray princess rabbi Renstern replied Rhine rich rock rushed Rustan Ruthard seemed servant silence smile soul speak spirit spoke stood tears tell thee thing thought tion told Topaz turn Vere voice walked weel wife woman words young youth
Pasajes populares
Página 129 - ... is betwixt life and death; and how I bore his death as I thought pretty well at first, but afterwards it haunted and haunted me ; and though I did not cry or take it to heart as some do, and as I think he would have done if I had died, yet I missed him all day long, and knew not till then how much I had loved him. I missed his kindness, and I missed his crossness, and wished him to be alive again, to be quarrelling with him (for we quarrelled sometimes), rather than not have him again...
Página 126 - Then I went on to say how religious and how good their great-grandmother Field was, how beloved and respected by everybody, though she was not indeed the mistress of this great house, but had only the charge of it (and yet in some respects she might be said to be the mistress of it too) committed to her by the owner, who preferred living in a newer and more fashionable mansion which he had purchased somewhere...
Página 133 - And on a rock he set my feet, establishing my way. 3 He put a new song in my mouth, our God to magnify : ( Many shall see it, and shall fear, and on the Lord rely.
Página 126 - ... elders, when they were children ; to stretch their imagination to the conception of a traditionary great-uncle or grandame whom they never saw. It was in this spirit that my little ones crept about me the other evening to hear about their great-grandmother Field, who lived in a great house in Norfolk, (a hundred times bigger than that in which they and papa lived,) which had been the scene...
Página 128 - ... their boundaries — and how their uncle grew up to man's estate as brave as he was handsome, to the admiration of everybody, but of their great-grandmother Field most especially ; and how he used to carry me upon his back when I was a lame-footed boy — for he was a good bit older than me — many a mile when I could not walk for pain ; — and how in after life he became lame-footed too, and I did not always (I fear) make allowances enough for him when he was impatient, and in pain...
Página 128 - ... nectarines and peaches hung upon the walls, without my ever offering to pluck them, because they were forbidden fruit, unless now and then; and because I had more pleasure in strolling about among the old melancholy-looking yew-trees, or the firs, and picking up the red...
Página 126 - And then I told how, when she came to die, her funeral was attended by a concourse of all the poor, and some of the gentry too, of the neighborhood for many miles round, to show their respect for her memory, because she had been such a good and religious woman; so good indeed that she knew all the Psaltery by heart, ay, and a great part of the Testament besides. Here little Alice spread her hands. Then I told what a tall, upright, graceful person their great-grandmother Field once was; and how in...
Página 125 - CHILDREN love to listen to stories about their elders, when they were children; to stretch their imagination to the conception of a traditionary great-uncle, or grandame, whom they never saw. It was in this spirit that my little ones crept about me the other evening to hear about their great-grandmother Field, who lived in a great house in Norfolk...
Página 302 - Billy all this time regarded the poor girl with a most rueful expression of countenance ; for he could not help thinking what a terrible thing it was for a nice young girl of nineteen, with large blue eyes, transparent skin, dimpled cheeks, suffused with health and joy, to be obliged to marry an ugly little bit of a man, who was a thousand years old, barring a day. At this critical moment, the bride gave a third sneeze, and Billy roared out with all his might,
Página 194 - Jacob wore a solemn expression of countenance ; and he seemed, from his looks, to bring them no comfort. Michael stood up between him and his wife, and looked into his heart. Something there seemed to be in his face that was not miserable. " If he has heard nothing of my child," thought Michael, " this man must care but little for his own fireside.