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... CULM DUMP XIII . A MAGYAR Paradise XIV . THE SCHOOL IN GRAHAM'S PATCH 157 • • 171 • 181 • · 199 · · 211 XV . AN ASSISTED IMMIGRANT · XVI . CASEY'S SPEAK - EASY • . XVII . ELEVEN CONTRARY MEN · • 225 • 245 · 255 XVIII . MARY LIZ IN THE ...
... CULM DUMP XIII . A MAGYAR Paradise XIV . THE SCHOOL IN GRAHAM'S PATCH 157 • • 171 • 181 • · 199 · · 211 XV . AN ASSISTED IMMIGRANT · XVI . CASEY'S SPEAK - EASY • . XVII . ELEVEN CONTRARY MEN · • 225 • 245 · 255 XVIII . MARY LIZ IN THE ...
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... culm IN dump , a spot of blue like a soldier's overcoat . In the foreground the newly - fallen March snow was tracked as if by men running . Somehow , the blue figure and the black dump seemed to belong together , like complementary ...
... culm IN dump , a spot of blue like a soldier's overcoat . In the foreground the newly - fallen March snow was tracked as if by men running . Somehow , the blue figure and the black dump seemed to belong together , like complementary ...
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... culm before the crowds which thronged the path and the dump had scattered , the soldiers for reinforcements , the strikers -well , they themselves hardly knew why . Both sides seemed to have forgotten the figure in blue . The towering ...
... culm before the crowds which thronged the path and the dump had scattered , the soldiers for reinforcements , the strikers -well , they themselves hardly knew why . Both sides seemed to have forgotten the figure in blue . The towering ...
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... culm dump is the squalid prospect of thousands of miners ' homes . So near to some that even the sky seems to be shut out of sight ; so near to many others that every corner of the house is soiled with the grime which blows through the ...
... culm dump is the squalid prospect of thousands of miners ' homes . So near to some that even the sky seems to be shut out of sight ; so near to many others that every corner of the house is soiled with the grime which blows through the ...
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... culm dump again , so as to drive the strikers from the top of the bank . The boys did not relish the job greatly and he was urging them on . He remembered one man par- ticularly , who stood at the left of the column , who was especially ...
... culm dump again , so as to drive the strikers from the top of the bank . The boys did not relish the job greatly and he was urging them on . He remembered one man par- ticularly , who stood at the left of the column , who was especially ...
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Page 208 - Are your cowslips of the meadows Like our weeds anear the mine ? Leave us quiet in the dark of the coal-shadows, From your pleasures fair and fine !
Page 178 - I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
Page 276 - If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills! — No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
Page 39 - Thou art knocking : And lo ! that hand is scarred, And thorns Thy brow encircle, And tears Thy face have marred...
Page 42 - IF Jesus Christ is a man, — And only a man, — I say That of all mankind I cleave to him, And to him will I cleave alway. If Jesus Christ is a God, — And the only God, — I swear I will follow Him through heaven and hell, The earth, the sea, and the air...
Page 368 - O light that followest all my way, I yield my flickering torch to thee ; My heart restores its borrowed ray, That in thy sunshine's blaze its day May brighter, fairer be.
Page 169 - GOD, who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers, that by reason of the fraility of our nature we cannot always stand upright ; Grant to us such strength and protection as may support us in all dangers and carry us through all temptations; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 368 - ONLY.] 0 love that wilt not let me go, I rest my wea-ry soul In thee; I give thee back the life I owe, That In thine o - cean depths its flow May rich - er, fol - ler art — (-: Ibe. :£=^ 0 LOVE that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in thee ; 1 give thee back the life I owe, That in thine ocean depths its flow May richer, fuller be.
Page 373 - OGOD, heavenly Father, who by thy Son Jesus Christ hast promised to all them that seek thy kingdom, and the righteousness thereof, all things necessary to their bodily sustenance ; Send us, we beseech thee, in this OUT necessity, such moderate rain and showers, that we may receive the fruits of the earth to our comfort, and to thy honour ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 26 - Man am I grown, a man's work must I do. Follow the deer? follow the Christ, the King, Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King — Else, wherefore born...