The Bodleys AfootHoughton, Osgood, 1880 - 202 עמודים A trip to New York by Nathan Bodley and Ned Adams gets as far as New Haven because a dispatch from Mr. Bodley brings them back at once to Massachusetts by rail. |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 135 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
עמוד 130 - No faithless servant frightened from my task, But ready when the Lord of the harvest calls ; And therefore, with all reverence, I would say, Let God do his work, we will see to ours. Bring in the candles." And they brought them in. Then by the flaring lights the Speaker read, Albeit with husky voice and shaking hands, An act to amend an act to regulate The shad and alewive fisheries.
עמוד 130 - Some said; and then, as if with one accord, All eyes were turned to Abraham Davenport. He rose, slow cleaving with his steady voice The intolerable hush. " This well may be The Day of Judgment which the world awaits; But be it so or not, I only know My present duty, and my Lord's command To occupy till He come.
עמוד 182 - Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
עמוד 140 - That the thought of what he had done would prove music to him at midnight, and that the omission of it would have upbraided and made discord in his conscience whensoever he should pass by that place ; for if...
עמוד 71 - Said the Duck to the Kangaroo, 'Good gracious! how you hop! Over the fields and the water too, As if you never would stop! My life is a bore in this nasty pond, And I long to go out in the world beyond! I wish I could hop like you!
עמוד 139 - In another walk to Salisbury, he saw a poor man with a poorer horse, that was fallen under his load : they were both in distress, and needed present help ; which Mr. Herbert perceiving, put off his canonical coat, and helped the pool man to unload, and after to load, his horse.
עמוד 176 - Lord, if it be thy pleasure to bury these our friends in the bottom of the sea, they are thine: save them.
עמוד 129 - Twas on a May-day of the far old year Seventeen hundred eighty, that there fell Over the bloom and sweet life of the Spring. Over the fresh earth and the heaven of noon, A horror of great darkness, like the night in day of which the Norland sages tell.