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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... , but not when mother is away from us for the first time since we were born ; not when she who is the very sun of home is shining elsewhere , and we are groping in the dim light without her , only re- 16 THE COMMON DENOMINATOR.
... , but not when mother is away from us for the first time since we were born ; not when she who is the very sun of home is shining elsewhere , and we are groping in the dim light without her , only re- 16 THE COMMON DENOMINATOR.
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Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin. groping in the dim light without her , only re- membering her last words and our last promises . Not difficult when we think of the eyes the color of the blue velvet bonnet , and the tears falling from them ...
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin. groping in the dim light without her , only re- membering her last words and our last promises . Not difficult when we think of the eyes the color of the blue velvet bonnet , and the tears falling from them ...
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... light that there were so many nice people in the world . " It's just this way . First there's mo- ther , and then all round mother there's a wide , wide space ; and then father and you come next the space . The Admiral smiled ; a grave ...
... light that there were so many nice people in the world . " It's just this way . First there's mo- ther , and then all round mother there's a wide , wide space ; and then father and you come next the space . The Admiral smiled ; a grave ...
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... light , so I knew you were reading , Muddy . I've had such a bright idea I could n't rest . " " Muddy " is not an attractive name unless you happen to know its true derivation and sig- nificance . First there was " mother dear , " and ...
... light , so I knew you were reading , Muddy . I've had such a bright idea I could n't rest . " " Muddy " is not an attractive name unless you happen to know its true derivation and sig- nificance . First there was " mother dear , " and ...
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... Light forms darted up and down the stairs and past the windows , appearing now at the back , now at the front of the house , with a pic- ture , or a postage stamp , or a dish , or a penwiper , or a pillow , or a basket , or a spool ...
... Light forms darted up and down the stairs and past the windows , appearing now at the back , now at the front of the house , with a pic- ture , or a postage stamp , or a dish , or a penwiper , or a pillow , or a basket , or a spool ...
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Admiral ain't Ann's asked barn beautiful Beulah Bill Harmon called Captain Carey Charlestown Cousin Ann crimson rambler Cyril Lord dear delightful Digby Dirty Boy dollars door dress exclaimed eyes father front Gilbert Gilly girls give Gladys Ferguson Greentown guess hair Hamilton boys hand head heart Henry Lord hour Joanna Joy n Julia Kathleen keep kiss kitchen Kitty knew lady Lallie Joy Lemuel Hamilton letter live look mind Miss months morning Mother Carey Mother Carey's chickens Muddy never night Olive and Cyril Olive's Osh Popham Ossian painted paper Peter PETER CROUCHED Peter-bird Ralph Thurston remember sitting smile stood stove supper tell there's things thought Tom Hamilton took turned Uncle Allan village Water Babies window wonderful Yellow House Yellow Peril young
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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.