The Christmas tree [ed. by G.F. Pardon].George Frederick Pardon 1856 |
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... coming roar- ing on , walked slowly , as if in pain , and looked towards him fearfully . He waited till the animal came up , and then he discovered that it was lame . The Lion looked piteously up into the man's face , and came close up ...
... coming roar- ing on , walked slowly , as if in pain , and looked towards him fearfully . He waited till the animal came up , and then he discovered that it was lame . The Lion looked piteously up into the man's face , and came close up ...
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... coming into the towns in the coldest months of winter . Well , one day when I was out in the woods , far away from any inhabited place , I thought I saw the track of a Bear . To discover a Bear and to determine to kill it was in those ...
... coming into the towns in the coldest months of winter . Well , one day when I was out in the woods , far away from any inhabited place , I thought I saw the track of a Bear . To discover a Bear and to determine to kill it was in those ...
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... coming through the wood , and at whose house I had rested some few days before . The shock I sustained so shook my nervous system that I was forced to abandon a wanderer's life . For many weeks I lay in the trapper's hut ere I recovered ...
... coming through the wood , and at whose house I had rested some few days before . The shock I sustained so shook my nervous system that I was forced to abandon a wanderer's life . For many weeks I lay in the trapper's hut ere I recovered ...
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... coming to London ( the time at which our brief sketch opens ) , when their home , if home it could be called , was but a miserable attic , in Paradise Row . Marion had grown very thin , but there was a wild lustre in her blue eyes , a ...
... coming to London ( the time at which our brief sketch opens ) , when their home , if home it could be called , was but a miserable attic , in Paradise Row . Marion had grown very thin , but there was a wild lustre in her blue eyes , a ...
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... coming to the shop any more ; that I must always come for yon . Wasn't he good , mother ? " " God is good , my child , " said Marion , solemnly , and for a moment she drew the girl's fair head to her THE ORPHAN'S TASK . 39.
... coming to the shop any more ; that I must always come for yon . Wasn't he good , mother ? " " God is good , my child , " said Marion , solemnly , and for a moment she drew the girl's fair head to her THE ORPHAN'S TASK . 39.
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actress Alma amuse animals Aunt Harriett's battle beautiful bird Blanche Leslie bless Boa Constrictor bright Buffalo called Charley child Christmas Tree Constantinople Cousin Rosa Crystal Palace Cuckoo curls darling dart dear dream Eagle earth Elephant eyes Falconry father feet fishes flowers forest Frogs girl glass Grafton Green green Gulf of Finland hand head heart Hippopotamus houses Indian inhabitants kinds knew Lady Clara land leave light Lion Lionel Hunter little Cuckoo little Ida live looked Lord Raglan mother native never night ocean palaces Paris Pearl Petersburg poor pretty prey Ragged School reptiles river round Russians sand seen Shark ships soon soul South America story stream sweet Sword Fish tears tell thought thousand told Turkey Turks Uncle George voice walked watch weary Whale wild wings wounded young Zoological Gardens
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Página 144 - Leaf after leaf he turned it o'er, Nor ever glanced aside — For the peace of his soul he read that book In the golden eventide; Much study had made him very lean, And pale, and leaden-eyed.
Página 145 - He told how murderers walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, — With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames about their brain • For blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting stain !
Página 147 - And now from forth the frowning sky, from the heaven's topmost height, I heard a voice — the awful voice of the blood-avenging sprite : ' Thou guilty man, take up thy dead, and hide it from my sight...
Página 143 - TWAS in the prime of summer time, An evening calm and cool, And four-and-twenty happy boys Came bounding out of school : There were some that ran and some that leapt, Like troutlets in a pool. Away they sped with gamesome minds, And souls untouched by sin; To a level mead they came, and there They drave the wickets in : Pleasantly shone the setting sun Over the town of Lynn. Like sportive deer they coursed about, And shouted as they ran, — Turning to mirth all things of earth, As only...
Página 146 - One that had never done me wrong, A feeble man and old ; I led him to a lonely field, The moon shone clear and cold : Now here, said I, this man shall die, And I will have his gold ! "Two sudden blows with ragged stick.
Página 88 - Such as gleam in ancient lore ; And the singing of the sailors, And the answer from the shore ! Most of all, the Spanish ballad Haunts me oft, and tarries long, Of the noble Count Arnaldos And the sailor's mystic song.
Página 149 - With breathless speed, like a soul in chase, I took him up and ran;— There was no time to dig a grave Before the day began: In a lonesome wood, with heaps of leaves, I hid the murdered man! "And all that day I read in school, But my thought was other where; As soon as the mid-day task was done, In secret I was there: And a mighty wind had swept the leaves, And still the corse was bare!
Página 149 - As soon as the mid-day task was done, In secret I was there : And a mighty wind had swept the leaves, And still the corse was bare ! " Then down I cast me on my face And first began to weep, For I knew my secret then was one That earth refused to keep : Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep.
Página 145 - The Usher took six hasty strides, As smit with sudden pain, — Six hasty strides beyond the place, Then slowly back again ; And down he sat beside the lad, And...
Página 118 - Who, when he saw the first sand or ashes, by a casual intenseness of heat, melted into a metalline form, rugged with excrescences, and clouded with impurities, would have imagined, that in this shapeless lump lay concealed so many...