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... seemed to grow more indulgent to him than ever . At length they were watched , the terrible mystery discovered , and father and son summoned to take their trial at Pekin , then an inconsider- able assize 28 A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG .
... seemed to grow more indulgent to him than ever . At length they were watched , the terrible mystery discovered , and father and son summoned to take their trial at Pekin , then an inconsider- able assize 28 A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG .
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... Seemed to deepen the gloom of the night . All around her was silent , save when the rude blast Howled dismally round the old pile ; Over weed - covered fragments still fearless she past , And arrived at the innermost ruin at last ...
... Seemed to deepen the gloom of the night . All around her was silent , save when the rude blast Howled dismally round the old pile ; Over weed - covered fragments still fearless she past , And arrived at the innermost ruin at last ...
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Moxon Edward and co Thomas Hood. When the sound of a voice seemed to rise on her ear : She paused , and she listened , all eager to hear , And her heart panted fearfully now . The wind blew , the hoarse ivy shook over her head , She ...
Moxon Edward and co Thomas Hood. When the sound of a voice seemed to rise on her ear : She paused , and she listened , all eager to hear , And her heart panted fearfully now . The wind blew , the hoarse ivy shook over her head , She ...
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... seemed to say— " Our master knows you - you're ex- pected . " Uprose the Reverend Dr. Brown , Uprose the Doctor's winsome marrow ; The lady laid her knitting down , Her husband husband clasped his ponderous Barrow ; Whate'er the ...
... seemed to say— " Our master knows you - you're ex- pected . " Uprose the Reverend Dr. Brown , Uprose the Doctor's winsome marrow ; The lady laid her knitting down , Her husband husband clasped his ponderous Barrow ; Whate'er the ...
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... old tarnished band ; sometimes the fresh gold lace made the brown beaver look still more an antique . The same with the harness and the horse , which was some- times a tall spanking brute , who seemed to have THE SUDDEN DEATH . 141.
... old tarnished band ; sometimes the fresh gold lace made the brown beaver look still more an antique . The same with the harness and the horse , which was some- times a tall spanking brute , who seemed to have THE SUDDEN DEATH . 141.
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Página 2 - Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.
Página 82 - The music and the doleful tale, The rich and balmy eve; And hopes, and fears that kindle hope, An undistinguishable throng, And gentle wishes long subdued, Subdued and cherished long. She wept with pity and delight, She blushed with love, and virgin shame; And like the murmur of a dream, I heard her breathe my name.
Página 5 - 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 2 - Good speed!' cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew; 'Speed!' echoed the wall to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast.
Página 52 - I met a little cottage Girl: She was eight years old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl That cluster'd round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad: Her eyes were fair, and very fair; Her beauty made me glad. " Sisters and brothers, little Maid, How many may you be ? " " How many ? Seven in all," she said, And wondering look'd at me.
Página 23 - What could it proceed from? Not from the burnt cottage: he had smelt that smell before; indeed this was by no means the first accident of the kind which had occurred through the negligence of this unlucky young fire-brand. Much less did it resemble that of any known herb, weed, or flower. A premonitory moistening at the same time overflowed his nether lip.
Página 95 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Página 94 - Teach us, sprite or bird, what sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Página 22 - Bo-bo was in the utmost consternation,- as you may think, not so much for the sake of the tenement, which his father and he could easily build up again with a few dry branches, and the labor of an hour or two, at any time, as for the loss of the pigs.
Página 90 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, — we feel that it is there.