Merry's Museum, Volúmenes5-6I.C. & J.N. Stearns, 1844 |
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... tell her story . At last she arose upon her feet , on her wooden shoes , which had been knocked off by the lightning , and went home . An occasion like this , would be no- always accomplish , by the skill of his hand , Bull, 66.
... tell her story . At last she arose upon her feet , on her wooden shoes , which had been knocked off by the lightning , and went home . An occasion like this , would be no- always accomplish , by the skill of his hand , Bull, 66.
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... feet deep , moist and malleable , and " hurra ! " it was for a snow man ! Bill , who , by this time , was as celebrated in this species of fine art , as our Boston Greenough is in making marble statues , at once took the matter in hand ...
... feet deep , moist and malleable , and " hurra ! " it was for a snow man ! Bill , who , by this time , was as celebrated in this species of fine art , as our Boston Greenough is in making marble statues , at once took the matter in hand ...
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... feet three inches long , and one foot eight inches broad . It is strange that the narval , without teeth , and having a very small mouth , apparently inflexible lips , and a short tongue , is able to seize and swallow a fish about three ...
... feet three inches long , and one foot eight inches broad . It is strange that the narval , without teeth , and having a very small mouth , apparently inflexible lips , and a short tongue , is able to seize and swallow a fish about three ...
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... feet out of the water , and nothing daunted , exclaimed , - " Ah , ah ; a narval ! " Scarcely had he uttered these words , when he heard a plunge behind him ; and on turning round , he discovered that his son had fallen into the water ...
... feet out of the water , and nothing daunted , exclaimed , - " Ah , ah ; a narval ! " Scarcely had he uttered these words , when he heard a plunge behind him ; and on turning round , he discovered that his son had fallen into the water ...
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... feet stuck to the ground . I should have screamed , but my tongue clung to the roof of my mouth , and my hair rose up so as throw my hat off my head . " How I contrived to pick it up I cannot say , but I heard the footsteps of some one ...
... feet stuck to the ground . I should have screamed , but my tongue clung to the roof of my mouth , and my hair rose up so as throw my hat off my head . " How I contrived to pick it up I cannot say , but I heard the footsteps of some one ...
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Página 58 - For often, at noon, when returned from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing ! And quick to the white-pebbled bottom it fell; Then soon, with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well; The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, arose from the well.
Página 90 - And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy ; and he healed them.
Página 58 - The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket arose from the well. How sweet from the green, mossy brim to receive it, As poised on the curb it inclined to my lips ! Not a full blushing goblet could tempt me to leave it, Though filled with the nectar that Jupiter sips.
Página 99 - THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread. The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day.
Página 9 - A LITTLE word in kindness spoken, A motion or a tear, Has often healed the heart that's broken, And made a friend sincere.
Página 185 - Now this, now that, he tasteth tenderly, Yet none of them he rudely doth disorder, Ne with his feet their silken leaves deface, But pastures on the pleasures of each place.
Página 5 - I humbly conceive my notice of this, especially at this time, will not be thought impertinent or unseasonable, but, at least, deserving some attention ; because, my lord, that any person, after a temperate use of life, a series of thinking and acting regularly, and without one single deviation from sobriety, should plunge into the very depth of profligacy precipitately and at once, is altogether improbable and unprecedented, and absolutely inconsistent with the course of things. Mankind is never...
Página 177 - ... with the powerful sweet, the ear was constantly attacked by an extremely soft but agreeable murmuring sound. It was easy to know that some animal within the covert must be the musician, and that the little noise must come from some little body suited to produce it.
Página 21 - Sirajuddaulah, entertained himself with concerts, and that they listened to the strains with an appearance of pleasure, till the monster, in whose soul there was no music, shot one of them to display his archery.
Página 35 - This was a tough question; and George staggered under it for a moment; but quickly recovered himself: and looking at his father, with the sweet face of youth brightened with the inexpressible charm of all-conquering truth, he bravely cried out, 'I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie.