The Scarlet Shawl: A NovelTinsley Brothers, 1874 - 309 pagina's |
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Pagina 4
... face insinuatingly wicked . + It was impossible to finally determine the colour of her eyes . Most of her dearest female friends , who hated her , said they were green and cat - like . Two or three , with a refinement of detraction ...
... face insinuatingly wicked . + It was impossible to finally determine the colour of her eyes . Most of her dearest female friends , who hated her , said they were green and cat - like . Two or three , with a refinement of detraction ...
Pagina 8
... face generally too broad for a delicate artist's oval ideal . This made the forehead broad and low , and the head large- " like a man's , " some of the girls said ; but Percival called it noble , grand , well - balanced . She did not ...
... face generally too broad for a delicate artist's oval ideal . This made the forehead broad and low , and the head large- " like a man's , " some of the girls said ; but Percival called it noble , grand , well - balanced . She did not ...
Pagina 22
... face to make another jealous , or to move a woman's heart . Nora thought him horridly ugly , and persistently kept from looking at him after the first glance ; and yet she walked on with a smile on her face , contentedly listen- ing to ...
... face to make another jealous , or to move a woman's heart . Nora thought him horridly ugly , and persistently kept from looking at him after the first glance ; and yet she walked on with a smile on her face , contentedly listen- ing to ...
Pagina 29
... face . There's that old cuss from Eastbourne , sir , with the rakish gear , " sung out one of the men ahead ; " she ought to be sunk- she ain't no right to be sailing agen us . And she's sure to object if she finds we've got a gent ...
... face . There's that old cuss from Eastbourne , sir , with the rakish gear , " sung out one of the men ahead ; " she ought to be sunk- she ain't no right to be sailing agen us . And she's sure to object if she finds we've got a gent ...
Pagina 34
... face . It was burning red . This great , coarse , rude fellow was absolutely ashamed . He felt that the fellows on shore were sneering at him for his false seamanship . But he stood to it like a man . He let her get a little way , and ...
... face . It was burning red . This great , coarse , rude fellow was absolutely ashamed . He felt that the fellows on shore were sneering at him for his false seamanship . But he stood to it like a man . He let her get a little way , and ...
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admiration asked Astarte Aunt Milly Baal beach beauty began boat cheek church cival close hauled cloven hoof colour conceit creature dear deep notes delicate dress dull eagerly everything excited eyes face faint feeble feel fellow flat race foresail Gerard girl glance gone gunwale hand hated head heard heart Herbert Spencer hour idea instinct knew lady laugh least letter lingered lips listened looked mainsail marriage married Master George Milly's mind minutes nature never Nora's Old Wootton once Ostend passed passion Pauline Percival Percival's Prebendary Rachel recognised Regent Street remembered round rude sail scarlet shawl side silent Sir Theodore Stanley slowly smile snowdrop somehow soul strong sure table d'hôte talk Theodore's thing thought tion told took touch turned Tyrian purple utterly vanity wait walk wanted watch wished woman word young
Populaire passages
Pagina 167 - And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: the merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk...
Pagina 67 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest: welcome at an inn.
Pagina 274 - Silently the tears gathered in her eyes, and rolled slowly down her cheeks. She did not check them — she did not think of them.
Pagina 255 - ... art — which perception in him was peculiarly acute, when his vanity made him exalt himself, and think of doing justice to himself, forced itself forward, and he grasped at it as the readiest and best means of showing his worth. He could no more have written down that stream of unconscious thought than he could have turned sensa.
Pagina 175 - When men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose. 3 Then the LORD said, "My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for he is flesh, but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
Pagina 237 - ... over with their crust of civilization, cultivated into smiling gardens, and rich cornfields, and happy glorious vineyards — under it all there is a buried city, a city of the inner heart, lost and forgotten these many days. There, on the walls of the chambers of that city are pictures, fresh as they were painted by the alchemy of light in the long, long years gone by.
Pagina 105 - It is a singular fact in physiology that if a woman is neither very beautiful nor very attractive, nor in any way likely to get married herself, she is pretty sure to dote on her brother.
Pagina 215 - He might do what he liked and say what he liked, but he must he perfectly polite to Sir Theodore.
Pagina 167 - And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colours, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls.
Pagina 65 - World, which represented all things but as the body and organs of this supreme mind or animating centre. He began to have a faint faith in that antique cultus ; for here, in the most modern and most unsentimental mudbuilt capital of the nineteenth century, he recognised the existence of a Soul of the World.