Mother Carey's ChickensGrosset & Dunlap, 1911 - Всего страниц: 355 The close-knit Carey family is devastated by their father's death of typhoid fever, but with inexhaustible optimism and courage the group manages to continue to enriche not only its own life but also that of the community. |
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... face and presence . As she came down the stairs with her quick , firm tread , her flock following her , she looked the ideal mo- ther . Her fine height , her splendid carriage , her deep chest , her bright eye and fresh color all ...
... face and presence . As she came down the stairs with her quick , firm tread , her flock following her , she looked the ideal mo- ther . Her fine height , her splendid carriage , her deep chest , her bright eye and fresh color all ...
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... face , where- upon the beholder - Mother Carey , his sisters , the cook or the chambermaid , everybody indeed but Cousin Ann , who could never be wheedled- would cry " Angel boy ! " and kiss him . He was even kissed now , though he had ...
... face , where- upon the beholder - Mother Carey , his sisters , the cook or the chambermaid , everybody indeed but Cousin Ann , who could never be wheedled- would cry " Angel boy ! " and kiss him . He was even kissed now , though he had ...
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... face lighted up with a passion of love and loyalty . She responded to the touch of her mother's faith as a harp to the favoring wind , but she said nothing ; she only glowed and breathed hard and put her trembling hand about her ...
... face lighted up with a passion of love and loyalty . She responded to the touch of her mother's faith as a harp to the favoring wind , but she said nothing ; she only glowed and breathed hard and put her trembling hand about her ...
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... face framed in the dark blue velvet bonnet , one last wave of a hand in a brown muff . " Oh ! she is so beautiful ! " sobbed Kathleen , " her bonnet is just the color of her eyes ; and she was crying ! " " There never was anybody like ...
... face framed in the dark blue velvet bonnet , one last wave of a hand in a brown muff . " Oh ! she is so beautiful ! " sobbed Kathleen , " her bonnet is just the color of her eyes ; and she was crying ! " " There never was anybody like ...
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... and when she raised her face it was full of the old love . She was grief- stricken and she was pale , but she was mother , and the three young things tore open the door and clasped her in their arms , sobbing , choking 23 THE BROKEN CIRCLE.
... and when she raised her face it was full of the old love . She was grief- stricken and she was pale , but she was mother , and the three young things tore open the door and clasped her in their arms , sobbing , choking 23 THE BROKEN CIRCLE.
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Стр. 14 - There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles The early lilacs became part of this child...
Стр. 12 - There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft, Without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked — and laughed! It seemed so curious that she Should cross the Unknown water, And moor herself within my room My daughter! O, my daughter! Yet by these presents witness all She's welcome fifty times, And comes consigned in hope and love And common-metre rhymes. She has no manifest but this; No flag floats o'er the water; She's too new for the British Lloyds My daughter!
Стр. 247 - Not of the sunlight, Not of the moonlight, Not of the starlight ! O young Mariner, Down to the haven, Call your companions, Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, Follow The Gleam.
Стр. 54 - ... cobbling, basting, filing, planing, hammering, turning, polishing, moulding, measuring, chiselling, clipping, and so forth, as men do when they go to work to make anything. But, instead of that, she sat quite still with her chin upon her hand, looking down into the sea with two great grand blue eyes, as blue as the sea itself.
Стр. 263 - And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.
Стр. 37 - Two of us in the churchyard lie, my sister and my brother. And in the churchyard cottage, I dwell near them with my mother.
Стр. 263 - For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house, hath more honour than the house. 4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
Стр. 247 - Great the Master, And sweet the Magic, When over the valley, In early summers, Over the mountain, On human faces, And all around me, Moving to melody, Floated the Gleam.
Стр. 113 - Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
Стр. 270 - We shut our eyes, the flowers bloom on; We murmur, but the corn-ears fill ; We choose the shadow, but the sun That casts it shines behind us still.