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Pagina 16
... girl and tend her , it passed like light- ning through her mind that the truth concerning Nanna was not and never should be the business of her tongue . Such was the disturbing element that Silver carried over the threshold of his home ...
... girl and tend her , it passed like light- ning through her mind that the truth concerning Nanna was not and never should be the business of her tongue . Such was the disturbing element that Silver carried over the threshold of his home ...
Pagina 17
... girl . The cir- cumstance awakened pangs of recol- lection and association . She had en- deavored to correct the girlish fashion of the garment by folding a muslin ker- chief of her mother's about her neck and shoulders , and by ...
... girl . The cir- cumstance awakened pangs of recol- lection and association . She had en- deavored to correct the girlish fashion of the garment by folding a muslin ker- chief of her mother's about her neck and shoulders , and by ...
Pagina 18
... girl over one shoulder while with the other hand she stirred the broth . A series of small chuckling laughs and exclamations revealed there the presence of his boy happily engaged in a child's perpetual journey of discov- ery about his ...
... girl over one shoulder while with the other hand she stirred the broth . A series of small chuckling laughs and exclamations revealed there the presence of his boy happily engaged in a child's perpetual journey of discov- ery about his ...
Pagina 19
... girl and felt her soft toes kick against his chest and brought near to his face the firm little body with its delicate clean odors of babyhood - in those moments he was safe . He became conscious of something he had not noticed in the ...
... girl and felt her soft toes kick against his chest and brought near to his face the firm little body with its delicate clean odors of babyhood - in those moments he was safe . He became conscious of something he had not noticed in the ...
Pagina 23
... girl on her arm as she ministered to the boy ; she smiled cheerily as he shouted , and left him to his happy work . Then with a sudden light impulse , Nanna darted forward and knelt by the boy's side , enveloping him with her arms and ...
... girl on her arm as she ministered to the boy ; she smiled cheerily as he shouted , and left him to his happy work . Then with a sudden light impulse , Nanna darted forward and knelt by the boy's side , enveloping him with her arms and ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 115 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Pagina 56 - And bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements...
Pagina 361 - Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night : It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens.
Pagina 362 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Pagina 21 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Pagina 712 - Advocate MacKenyie, who, for his worldly wit and wisdom had been to the rest as a god. And there was Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived, with his long, dark, curled locks streaming down over his laced buffcoat, and his left hand always on his right spuleblade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made.
Pagina 371 - I hear of poets' fury* tell, But (God wot) wot not what they mean by it: And this I swear by blackest brook of hell, I am no pick-purse of another's wit. How falls it then, that with so smooth an ease My thoughts I speak, and what I speak doth flow In verse, and that my verse best wits doth please? Guess we the cause: "What, is it thus?
Pagina 712 - And mony, mony mair were coming and ganging, a' as busy in their vocation as if they had been alive. Sir Robert Redgauntlet, in the midst of a' this fearful riot, cried, wi' a voice like thunder, on Steenie Piper to come to the board-head where he was sitting, his legs stretched out before him, and swathed up with flannel, with his holster pistols aside him, while the great broadsword rested against...
Pagina 712 - There was the fierce Middleton, and the dissolute Rothes, and the crafty Lauderdale; and Dalyell, with his bald head and a beard to his girdle; and Earlshall, with Cameron's blude on his hand; and wild Bonshaw, that tied blessed Mr. Cargill's limbs till the blude sprung; and Dumbarton Douglas, the twiceturned traitor baith to country and king.
Pagina 706 - I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid, and make them kind to the poor, and better folk than their father ! — And now, ride e'en your ways ; for these are the last words ye'll ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan.