The Cape as I Found itElliot Stock, 1900 - 198 pagina's |
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Pagina 24 - Spread — void of living sight or sound. And here, while the night-winds round me sigh, And the stars burn bright in the midnight sky, As I sit apart by the desert stone, Like Elijah at Horeb's cave, alone, "A still small voice" comes through the wild, Like a father consoling his fretful child, Which banishes bitterness, wrath, and fear.
Pagina 185 - In the faith of little children we went on our ways. Then the wood failed — then the food failed — then the last water dried ; In the faith of little children we lay down and died. " On the sand-drift — on the veldt-side — in the fern scrub we lay, That our sons might follow after by the bones on the way.
Pagina 188 - I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.
Pagina 17 - I shall always think of her as being very kind and good to us all, for I am sure we must have been a trial to her at times, especially as she still had many good old-fashioned ideas about girls and what they should do and what they should not do. She looked after us physically, mentally, and morally, and I am sure we ought to have been very grateful to her.
Pagina 2 - A party from the society, teachers and hospital nurses, were going out under the charge of Sister Henrietta, of Kimberley. These I joined, and so I set forth to see the world.
Pagina 179 - The dishcloth is a great institution in the Boer household. A dirty bit of ' lapje ' (rag) it is, which fulfils more than its allotted share in the common round, the trivial task.
Pagina 4 - We were very hopeful, and when we parted vowed to each other eternal friendships, and now, in spite of the eternal friendships, I have lost sight of them all.
Pagina 2 - I thought it silly to go on sitting there at all, and decided to go out to the colonies, where, if I should not earn much money, I should at least see a different phase of life, and more of the world at the same time.
Pagina 151 - Then out of his bag he took his ' doll-oxen,' as the bones are called that the children play with...
Pagina 32 - ... and went to sleep. In the middle of the night we were awoke at Middelburg.