My Southern Friends ...Carleton, 1863 - 308 páginas |
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... seemed to break upon the woman , for , making a low courtesy , she said : " Oh ! she will be glad to see you , sir ; she's very bad off , very bad indeed , " and she led the way at once to the base- ment stairway . The woman was about ...
... seemed to break upon the woman , for , making a low courtesy , she said : " Oh ! she will be glad to see you , sir ; she's very bad off , very bad indeed , " and she led the way at once to the base- ment stairway . The woman was about ...
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... seemed a black flame . And her face - so pale , so wan , so woebegone , and yet so wildly , strangely beautiful — seemed that of some fallen angel , who , after long ages of torment , had been purified , and fitted again for heaven ...
... seemed a black flame . And her face - so pale , so wan , so woebegone , and yet so wildly , strangely beautiful — seemed that of some fallen angel , who , after long ages of torment , had been purified , and fitted again for heaven ...
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... seemed so for a good many days . " " Has she had a physician ? " " Not for nigh a month . A doctor come once or twice , but he said it wan't no use - he couldn't help her . " " But she should have help at once . you can send ? Have you ...
... seemed so for a good many days . " " Has she had a physician ? " " Not for nigh a month . A doctor come once or twice , but he said it wan't no use - he couldn't help her . " " But she should have help at once . you can send ? Have you ...
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... seemed very sick , and little Franky was a - trying to comfort her - he's a brave , noble little fellow , sir . She told me she'd been turned out of doors for not paying her rent , and was afeared she'd die in the street , though she ...
... seemed very sick , and little Franky was a - trying to comfort her - he's a brave , noble little fellow , sir . She told me she'd been turned out of doors for not paying her rent , and was afeared she'd die in the street , though she ...
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... seemed to come into them ; it overspread her face , and lit up her thin , wan features , with a strange glow . " It must be so , " she said ; " else why were you led here ? God must have sent you to me for that ! " " No doubt He did ...
... seemed to come into them ; it overspread her face , and lit up her thin , wan features , with a strange glow . " It must be so , " she said ; " else why were you led here ? God must have sent you to me for that ! " " No doubt He did ...
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My Southern Friends: All of which I Saw and Part of which I was James Roberts Gilmore Vista completa - 1864 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 167 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 125 - Her children rose up and called her blessed ; her husband also, and he praised her.' Such was ' the lady ' in the old Scottish house. Her speech was the Doric of her native land, as broad as that of her domestics. Trained from her earliest days to use her hands, and believing in the dignity of labour, she taught her daughters to be what the law, based on an old fact, still as a fiction...
Página 203 - Ole Aggy an' I hab trabbled de road. Hand in hand we hab gone ober de rocks ; fru de mud ; in de hot burning sand ; been out togedder in de cole, an
Página 203 - My chil'ren, lub one anoder; bar wid one anoder; be faithful ter one anoder. You hab started on a long journey; many rough places am in de road; many trubbles will spring up by de wayside; but gwo- on hand an...
Página 203 - ... peace hab broke fru de clouds, an' sent him bressed rays inter our hearts. We started jess like two young saplin's you's seed a growin' side by side in de woods. At fust we seemed 'way part fur de brambles, and de tick bushes, an...
Página 204 - way part, fur de brambles. an' de tick bushes, an' de ugly forns — [dem war our bad ways] — war atween us, but lub, like de sun, shone down on us, an' we grow'd. We grow'd till our heads got above de bushes ; till dis little branch, an' dat little branch — dem war our holy feelin's — put out toward one anoder, an' we come closer an
Página 204 - An' dough we'm ole trees now, an' sometime de wind blow, an' de storm rage fru de tops, an' freaten ter tear off de limbs, an' ter pull up de bery roots, we'm growin' closer an' closer, an' nearer an' nearer togedder ebery day. An' soon de ole tops will meet ; soon de ole branches, all cohered ober wid de gray moss, will twine roun' one anoder; soon de two ole trees will come, togedder, an...