The United States Reader: Containing a Variety of Exercises in Reading, Punctuation, Figures of Speech, Spelling, &c. : for the Use of SchoolsDurrie & Peck, 1842 - 304 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 38
עמוד 75
... door was hardly closed , before I resolved with my companions , that we would not rest until we had made one great effort to escape . Every day we were insulted by the wretches employed to guard us ; our food was hardly sufficient to ...
... door was hardly closed , before I resolved with my companions , that we would not rest until we had made one great effort to escape . Every day we were insulted by the wretches employed to guard us ; our food was hardly sufficient to ...
עמוד 78
... door . It proved to be the old gentleman's help - mate . She immediately com- menced preparations for breakfast , without troubling herself much about the character of her husband's guests ; he conde- scended , however , to make some ...
... door . It proved to be the old gentleman's help - mate . She immediately com- menced preparations for breakfast , without troubling herself much about the character of her husband's guests ; he conde- scended , however , to make some ...
עמוד 79
... door and entered it softly . My mother was sitting in her usual place by the fireside , though there were green boughsd instead of fagots in the chimney before her . When she saw me , she gave a wild look , grew deadly pale , and making ...
... door and entered it softly . My mother was sitting in her usual place by the fireside , though there were green boughsd instead of fagots in the chimney before her . When she saw me , she gave a wild look , grew deadly pale , and making ...
עמוד 80
... doors . Breathless with fear , he gave them his tidings . Having related what he had seen , the whole assembly bent their way towards my father's house ; and such was their impatience to arrive at the spot , that minister and deacons ...
... doors . Breathless with fear , he gave them his tidings . Having related what he had seen , the whole assembly bent their way towards my father's house ; and such was their impatience to arrive at the spot , that minister and deacons ...
עמוד 85
... door open , I observed that it was judged necessary , for fear of discovery , to stifle all sorts of natural or other noise , even to the inhalation and exha- lation of the breathe of life ; so that my father stood with his mother ...
... door open , I observed that it was judged necessary , for fear of discovery , to stifle all sorts of natural or other noise , even to the inhalation and exha- lation of the breathe of life ; so that my father stood with his mother ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Alberry Annabel Annabel's arms beautiful brother Burford called Cawdor Castle comma Countess daughter death delight door dress Duke of Nemours earth Edom Edomite exclaimed eyes father feel figure of speech fire gaze girl give grave Hafed hand happy hath head hear heard heart Henry Jenkins inflection James of Armagnac John Carty Jupiter king lady LESSON live look Lord Lord Lovat Lucy Davis means Meloé METONYMY mind Minna morning mother Mount Stewart never night o'er once pain passed poor Punctuate replied round ruins Sassari seemed semicolon sentence sister smile soon soul Sound of gh speak Spell and define stood stranger SYNECDOCHE tears tell temple thee Thekla thing thou thought tion told trees verse voice walk wife words young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 284 - And now go to; I will tell you What I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; And break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down...
עמוד 280 - The voice at midnight came, He started up to hear ; A mortal arrow pierced his frame — He fell, but felt no fear.
עמוד 124 - When, playing with thy vesture's tissued flowers, 75 The violet, the pink, and jessamine, I pricked them into paper with a pin, (And thou wast happier than myself the while, Wouldst softly speak, and stroke my head and smile), Could those few pleasant days again appear, Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here I would not trust my heart — the dear delight Seems so to be desired, perhaps I might.
עמוד 122 - Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ; Ah, that maternal smile, it answers yes...
עמוד 122 - With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, ' Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away!
עמוד 18 - Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars...
עמוד 172 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring. Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished They live no longer in the faith of reason...
עמוד 63 - Come to the bridal chamber, Death ! Come to the mother when she feels For the first time her first-born's breath ! Come when the blessed seals Which close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke...
עמוד 288 - Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
עמוד 123 - All this still legible in memory's page, And still to be so to my latest age...