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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... step used to be lighter than Nancy's . A strange gentleman , oh ! not a stranger , it was the dear Admiral helping mother up the path . They had been unconsciously expecting the brown muff and blue velvet bonnet , but these had vanished ...
... step used to be lighter than Nancy's . A strange gentleman , oh ! not a stranger , it was the dear Admiral helping mother up the path . They had been unconsciously expecting the brown muff and blue velvet bonnet , but these had vanished ...
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... steps , the hollyhocks growing under the windows , the yellow paint and the green blinds ; and father looked in the windows , and the rooms were large and sunny , and we wanted to drive the horse into the barn and stay there forever ...
... steps , the hollyhocks growing under the windows , the yellow paint and the green blinds ; and father looked in the windows , and the rooms were large and sunny , and we wanted to drive the horse into the barn and stay there forever ...
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... Step lively , Miss ! ' cries the brakeman , but I do not heed him ; it is not likely that a person rent- ing country houses will move save with majesty . Alighting , I inquire if there is any conveyance for Beulah , and there is , a ...
... Step lively , Miss ! ' cries the brakeman , but I do not heed him ; it is not likely that a person rent- ing country houses will move save with majesty . Alighting , I inquire if there is any conveyance for Beulah , and there is , a ...
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... steps after them and , turning , says graciously to her Knight , ' Would you just as soon marry somebody else ? I am very much attached to my family , and they will need me dreadfully while they are getting settled . ' " I did not ...
... steps after them and , turning , says graciously to her Knight , ' Would you just as soon marry somebody else ? I am very much attached to my family , and they will need me dreadfully while they are getting settled . ' " I did not ...
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... step softly . It won't take long , because I have planned all in secret , well and thoroughly . Don't puff and blow like that ! Mother will hear you ! " " I'm excited , " whispered Kathleen as they stole down the back stairs and went ...
... step softly . It won't take long , because I have planned all in secret , well and thoroughly . Don't puff and blow like that ! Mother will hear you ! " " I'm excited , " whispered Kathleen as they stole down the back stairs and went ...
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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.