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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... took his two weekly re- ports home cautiously for fear that they might break on the way , pasted them on large pieces of paper , and framed them in elaborate red , white , and blue stars united by strips of gold paper . How Captain and ...
... took his two weekly re- ports home cautiously for fear that they might break on the way , pasted them on large pieces of paper , and framed them in elaborate red , white , and blue stars united by strips of gold paper . How Captain and ...
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... took the first sip , Kathleen the sec- ond , and Nancy the third , and hardly had the last swallow disappeared down the poor aching throats before a carriage drove up to the gate . Some one got out and handed out Mrs. Carey , whose step ...
... took the first sip , Kathleen the sec- ond , and Nancy the third , and hardly had the last swallow disappeared down the poor aching throats before a carriage drove up to the gate . Some one got out and handed out Mrs. Carey , whose step ...
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... eternal activities , and indeed of other people's ! They were divided into three classes , those contracted in the society of Joanna when she took him out - of - doors : such as sand , water , mud , grass stains , 42 MOTHER CAREY'S ...
... eternal activities , and indeed of other people's ! They were divided into three classes , those contracted in the society of Joanna when she took him out - of - doors : such as sand , water , mud , grass stains , 42 MOTHER CAREY'S ...
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... remember once , years and years ago , before Peter it was , that father took us on a driving trip through some dear little villages in Maine ? " ( The Careys never dated their happenings eighteen hundred and 46 MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS.
... remember once , years and years ago , before Peter it was , that father took us on a driving trip through some dear little villages in Maine ? " ( The Careys never dated their happenings eighteen hundred and 46 MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS.
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... took the form of something like a lovely woman sitting on a white marble throne . And from the foot of the throne , you remember , there swam away , out and out into the sea , millions of new - born creatures of more shapes and colors ...
... took the form of something like a lovely woman sitting on a white marble throne . And from the foot of the throne , you remember , there swam away , out and out into the sea , millions of new - born creatures of more shapes and colors ...
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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.