Peter Parley's Annual: A Christmas and New Year's Present for Young People..William Martin Darton and Company, 1863 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Agricultural Show alderman amusement animal Armstrong gun artist aunt Bantry Bay Bayard bears beautiful Bedingfield began BENETFINK birds boat called Charley CHLORODYNE colour cried dancing dark dead delight diamond Dolter Duke Duke of Savoy Easel eyes father feet fell fight fire fish flock flowers forest Games garden girls gold green guns hand happy head heard horse hundred International Exhibition kind Koh-i-noor ladies leap lion live LONDON looked MAIZENA miles mother nature NED BUNTLINE nest never night noble otter painted panther picture pigeons Pluto pole poor Price REGENT STREET round seemed seen side soon sport spring STOAT stood STREET SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON things THOMAS KEATING Thomas Seckford thought took trees turned uncle wild window Winter wolf wonderful wood wooden leg young friends younker
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 113 - Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock. And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth : and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
עמוד 113 - David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
עמוד 127 - ... active frame seemed constantly in the air, while the dog nobly faced his foe, at each successive leap. When the panther lighted on the shoulders of the mastiff which was its constant aim, old Brave, though torn with her talons...
עמוד 94 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
עמוד 30 - Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying half in and half out of the water, others were rolling themselves in the sun on the sandy bank, uttering a shrill whistling noise, as if in play. I was told...
עמוד 256 - I rode through it upwards of forty miles, and, crossing it in different parts, found its average breadth to be rather more than three miles. My first view of it was about a fortnight subsequent to the period when they had...
עמוד 30 - ... told that most of the fishermen in this neighbourhood kept one or more of these animals, who were almost as tame as dogs, and of great use in fishing, sometimes driving the shoals into the nets, sometimes bringing out the larger fish with their teeth. I was much pleased and interested with the sight. It has always been a fancy of mine that the poor creatures whom we waste and persecute to death for no cause, but the gratification of our cruelty, might by reasonable treatment be made the sources...
עמוד 127 - ... position, on the back of her aged foe. For a single moment, only, could the panther remain there, the great strength of the dog returning with a convulsive effort. But Elizabeth saw, as Brave fastened his teeth in the side of his enemy, that the collar of brass around...
עמוד 304 - Is i;' mi i -, glimmering still, They say, has gone to seek his bed, Behind the purple hill. And I, through all the quiet night, Must sleep the hours away,— That I may waken fresh and bright, To live another day. And well I know whose lips will smile, And pray for me, and bless me ; And who will talk to me, the while Her gentle hands undress me. She'll tell me, there is One above, Upon a glorious throne, Who loves me with a tender love, More tender than her own.
עמוד 11 - ... perm. The baking being once over, the sowans pot succeeds the gridiron, full of new sowans, which are to be given to the family, agreeably to custom, this day in their beds. The sowans are boiled into the consistence of molasses, when the lagan- le-vric/t, or yeastbread, to distinguish it from boiled sowans, is ready.