St. Nicholas, כרך 50Mary Mapes Dodge Scribner & Company, 1923 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 913 - Woods ! that listen to the night-birds singing, . Midway the smooth and perilous slope reclined, Save when your own imperious branches swinging, Have made a solemn music of the wind ! Where, like a man beloved of God, Through glooms, which never woodman trod...
עמוד 774 - May May shall make the world anew ; Golden sun and silver dew, Money minted in the sky, Shall the earth's new garments buy. May shall make the orchards bloom; And the blossoms' fine perfume Shall set all the honey-bees Murmuring among the trees. May shall make the bud appear Like a jewel, crystal clear, 'Mid the leaves upon the limb Where the robin lilts his hymn. May shall make the wild flowers tell Where the shining snowflakes fell ; Just as though each snowflake's heart, By some secret, magic...
עמוד 927 - Madison), who went to school wearing "a white linen mask to keep every ray o'f sunshine from the complexion, a sunbonnet sewed on her head every morning by her careful mother, and long gloves covering the hands and arms.
עמוד 943 - There was a rustling that seemed like a bustling Of merry crowds justling at pitching and hustling, Small feet were pattering, wooden shoes clattering, Little hands clapping and little tongues chattering, And, like fowls in a farm-yard when barley is scattering, Out came the children running. All the little boys and girls, With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls, And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls, Tripping and skipping, ran merrily after The wonderful music with shouting and laughter.
עמוד 928 - Dear friend, thou must come to me. Aaron Burr says that the ' great little Madison ' has asked to be brought to see me this evening.
עמוד 1239 - This letter was addressed to him by the title of " Don Christopher Columbus, our admiral of the ocean sea, and viceroy and governor of the islands discovered in the Indies;" at the same time he was promised still further rewards.
עמוד 928 - I would not give up my own retirement for the empire of the universe, how I can justify wishing one whose happiness I have so much at heart as yours, to take the front of the battle which is fighting for my security. This would be easy enough to be done, but not at the heel of a lengthy epistle.
עמוד 927 - ... mentally, and he never held up his head again, taking to his room, which he left only to be carried to his last resting-place. All this while the pretty Dolly was growing in grace and stature, winning hearts from old and young by the peculiar charm of manner for which she afterwards became noted. A tall, slight girl of nineteen, with a delicately oval face, and wellformed, if not perfect, features ; a complexion dazzlingly fair, contrasted with very black hair ; and blue eyes that gazed at you...
עמוד 927 - While we stood, Mrs. Madison entered — a tall, portly, elegant lady, with a turban on her head and a book in her hand. She advanced straight to me, and, extending her left hand, said : ' Are you William Campbell Preston, the son of my old friend and most beloved kinswoman, Sally Campbell?
עמוד 1230 - Alone, yet not alone am I, Though in this solitude so drear; I feel my Saviour always nigh, He comes the weary hour to cheer, I am with him, and he with me, — E'en here, alone I cannot be !' " The Colonel desired her to sing the hymn as she used to do.