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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... nature needed to be stirred , Nancy's to be controlled , the impulse coming from within , the only way that counts in the end , though the guiding force may be applied from without . Nancy was more impulsive than industrious , more ...
... nature needed to be stirred , Nancy's to be controlled , the impulse coming from within , the only way that counts in the end , though the guiding force may be applied from without . Nancy was more impulsive than industrious , more ...
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... nature and ex- tent of his need . Miss Chadwick's only response to his request was , that she believed in every tub standing on its own bottom , and if he had har- bored the same convictions he would not have been in his present ...
... nature and ex- tent of his need . Miss Chadwick's only response to his request was , that she believed in every tub standing on its own bottom , and if he had har- bored the same convictions he would not have been in his present ...
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... natural at the age of four , but the same idea of the universe still existed in Gilbert's mind . A boy of thirteen ought perhaps to have a clearer idea of the rela- tive sizes of world and individual ; at least that was the conviction ...
... natural at the age of four , but the same idea of the universe still existed in Gilbert's mind . A boy of thirteen ought perhaps to have a clearer idea of the rela- tive sizes of world and individual ; at least that was the conviction ...
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... nature of tributes to her charms and virtues , and she did not wish a third . " If you two can't be more attractive , then I'll be less , that's all , " was her edict . " Turn and turn about ' has got to be the rule in this matter . I'm ...
... nature of tributes to her charms and virtues , and she did not wish a third . " If you two can't be more attractive , then I'll be less , that's all , " was her edict . " Turn and turn about ' has got to be the rule in this matter . I'm ...
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... nature . ' That's what the Admiral says , but of course the ticket man could n't know that the Admiral is an intimate friend of mine , and would think I said it myself . " Then I would go down the platform and take the common car for ...
... nature . ' That's what the Admiral says , but of course the ticket man could n't know that the Admiral is an intimate friend of mine , and would think I said it myself . " Then I would go down the platform and take the common car for ...
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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.