Philips' series of reading books for public elementary schools, ed. by J.G. Cromwell, Libro 4 |
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... covered by a single shrub ; the only music is the hoarse murmuring of the waves , ever and anon renewing their assaults on the huge masses that oppose them . The Northern sun creeping at midnight just above the horizon , and the ...
... covered by a single shrub ; the only music is the hoarse murmuring of the waves , ever and anon renewing their assaults on the huge masses that oppose them . The Northern sun creeping at midnight just above the horizon , and the ...
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... covered with the wild plant , which is there eaten as grass by horses and cattle . Lettuce and celery are striking examples of the influence of culture ; and the pine- apple and melon , productions of the tropics , are , by the ...
... covered with the wild plant , which is there eaten as grass by horses and cattle . Lettuce and celery are striking examples of the influence of culture ; and the pine- apple and melon , productions of the tropics , are , by the ...
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... covered over the roof and sides with a kind of varnish ; and by copying the work exactly on a large scale , Brunel was at length enabled to accomplish his great engineering work . It is the intelligent eye of the careful observer which ...
... covered over the roof and sides with a kind of varnish ; and by copying the work exactly on a large scale , Brunel was at length enabled to accomplish his great engineering work . It is the intelligent eye of the careful observer which ...
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... covered with a brownish bark , and opposite branches with a slightly downward inclination , giving to the whole shrub an elegantly beautiful pyramidal outline . The flowers of the coffee - tree resemble those of the white jessamine ...
... covered with a brownish bark , and opposite branches with a slightly downward inclination , giving to the whole shrub an elegantly beautiful pyramidal outline . The flowers of the coffee - tree resemble those of the white jessamine ...
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... covered with his com- pounds to a glass furnace to bake , and after a long watch one piece came out - white , polished , beautiful ! He ran home with it to his wife , feeling himself , as he expressed it , a " new creature . " Then he ...
... covered with his com- pounds to a glass furnace to bake , and after a long watch one piece came out - white , polished , beautiful ! He ran home with it to his wife , feeling himself , as he expressed it , a " new creature . " Then he ...
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Términos y frases comunes
afterwards animals army ATLAS attack Ballengiech battle BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR beautiful bird black teas bound in cloth Burslem Calais castle coal colour Cramond creature cried Croesus dead death Douglas Earl earth eggs enemy English eyes father fear feet fell fire galloped Genoese George Stephenson give Hardy heard heat hole horse hour hundred John Howieson King of England King of France Kippen land Lars Porsena leaves light lions live looked Lord Maps meat Mebálwe miles Mount Vesuvius mountain Nelson never night noble ostrich passed peacock PHILIPS plant puff adder Regulus replied Romans round Scotland Scots sent sheep shepherd ships shot side sight Sir Walter soon Staffordshire streets thee things thou tion town travelling tree Vesuvius Victory whole William Lawson wind wing wolf
Pasajes populares
Página 103 - Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Página 156 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ;
Página 117 - A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Página 42 - BEN ADHEM — may his tribe increase — Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold And to the presence in the room he said: 'What writest thou?' The vision raised its head, And with a look made all of sweet accord, Answered: 'The names of those who love the Lord.
Página 157 - And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track ; And one eye's black intelligence, — ever that glance O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance ! And the thick heavy spume-flakes which aye and anon His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on. 5 By Hasselt, Dirck groaned; and cried Joris, 'Stay spur! Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her, We'll remember at Aix...
Página 188 - THE REVERIE OF POOR SUSAN AT the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, Hangs a Thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three years : Poor Susan has passed by the spot, and has heard In the silence of morning the song of the Bird.
Página 267 - But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied; And now the bridge hangs tottering Above the boiling tide. " Come back, come back, Horatius !
Página 92 - Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops— at the bent spray's edge — That's the wise thrush: he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!
Página 158 - for Aix is in sight! "How they'll greet us!" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets
Página 43 - The names of those who love the Lord." "And is mine one?" said Abou. "Nay, not so,