The Scarlet Shawl: A NovelTinsley Brothers, 1874 - 309 pagina's |
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Pagina 5
... minute they were nearly blue , then they grew lighter and grey . In the twilight they were exquisitely beau- tiful , like the first faint star of eve , whose colour you could not determine at first . This silenced her ; but , thinking ...
... minute they were nearly blue , then they grew lighter and grey . In the twilight they were exquisitely beau- tiful , like the first faint star of eve , whose colour you could not determine at first . This silenced her ; but , thinking ...
Pagina 14
... minutes she saw him riding across the park , and he did not once look back . Till he disappeared round the last clump of bushes she was half certain that he would turn and come back , as he had done so many times before ; but he did not ...
... minutes she saw him riding across the park , and he did not once look back . Till he disappeared round the last clump of bushes she was half certain that he would turn and come back , as he had done so many times before ; but he did not ...
Pagina 15
... minute that the bell rang she was sure he would come . But he did not . Her eyes were in a doubt- ful state again ; she felt it very much ; she could not break off that long association so easily . He was fast winning the day ; but he ...
... minute that the bell rang she was sure he would come . But he did not . Her eyes were in a doubt- ful state again ; she felt it very much ; she could not break off that long association so easily . He was fast winning the day ; but he ...
Pagina 21
... minutes scarcely conscious of what she was saying . This was the very fellow Percival detested , and she knew very well that when he went on about some men's company being enough to disgrace any lady , this was the person he was ...
... minutes scarcely conscious of what she was saying . This was the very fellow Percival detested , and she knew very well that when he went on about some men's company being enough to disgrace any lady , this was the person he was ...
Pagina 27
... her head . She only laughed , and said the spray was deliciously cool . Her cheeks were hot with the exercise of coming down the cliff . In another minute they were afloat , and the hawser came in more THE SCARLET SHAWL . 27.
... her head . She only laughed , and said the spray was deliciously cool . Her cheeks were hot with the exercise of coming down the cliff . In another minute they were afloat , and the hawser came in more THE SCARLET SHAWL . 27.
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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.