Literature and Living, Book 2Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925 - Readers |
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... close to it , and struck the stone sharply with the back of my knife- blade . A little shower of sparks flew forth at the blow , but none fell upon the handkerchief . Again and again I tried , each time holding the stone in a different ...
... close to it , and struck the stone sharply with the back of my knife- blade . A little shower of sparks flew forth at the blow , but none fell upon the handkerchief . Again and again I tried , each time holding the stone in a different ...
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... close by . Bending down the latter , I slipped the spindle into the notches in the stake , spread the noose across the opening , and my snare was complete . I was proud of my work , simple as it was , and was confident that when the ...
... close by . Bending down the latter , I slipped the spindle into the notches in the stake , spread the noose across the opening , and my snare was complete . I was proud of my work , simple as it was , and was confident that when the ...
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... close to the child's face . He frowned , putting the lamp back quickly . " Mebbe it is , Mis ' Clark , but don't you be scared . We'll help you a spell . " Dan lifted the red curtains from the cupboard , found an emp- tied lard - pail ...
... close to the child's face . He frowned , putting the lamp back quickly . " Mebbe it is , Mis ' Clark , but don't you be scared . We'll help you a spell . " Dan lifted the red curtains from the cupboard , found an emp- tied lard - pail ...
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... close , her eyes wide with fear . " Dan , is is she ? " - A faint sobbing breath of relief fluttered the pale lips that moved in the merest ghost of a smile . The heavy eyelids half- lifted , and the child nestled against its mother's ...
... close , her eyes wide with fear . " Dan , is is she ? " - A faint sobbing breath of relief fluttered the pale lips that moved in the merest ghost of a smile . The heavy eyelids half- lifted , and the child nestled against its mother's ...
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... close to the face of a person is in itself dangerous ; but to give it also the opportunity of snapping or biting at such close quarters is foolhardy . Since this act generally passed off very quietly , it was not par- ticularly popular ...
... close to the face of a person is in itself dangerous ; but to give it also the opportunity of snapping or biting at such close quarters is foolhardy . Since this act generally passed off very quietly , it was not par- ticularly popular ...
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Page 203 - And children coming home from school, Look in at the open door ; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
Page 49 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Page 681 - Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain ; 0 listen ! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No Nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands : A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings...
Page 296 - Little I ask ; my wants are few ; I only wish a hut of stone, (A very plain brown stone will do,) That I may call my own ; — And close at hand is such a one, In yonder street that fronts the sun. Plain food is quite enough for me; Three courses are as good as ten ; — If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen! I always thought cold victual nice; — My choice would be vanilla-ice. I care not much for gold or land; — Give me a mortgage here and there, — Some good bank-stock,...
Page 681 - Will no one tell me what she sings? — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again?
Page 63 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor swom deceitfully.
Page 40 - COME my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready, Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes? Pioneers! O pioneers! For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers!
Page 496 - I stopped my horse lately where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times ; and one of the company called to a plain, clean, old man, with white locks, " Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times ? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we ever be able to pay them ? What would you advise us to?
Page 93 - While he was thinking what he should say to his father, and wringing his hands over the smoking remnants of one of those untimely sufferers, an odor assailed his nostrils, unlike any scent which he had before experienced. What could it proceed from ? Not from the burnt cottage, — he had smelt that smell before ; indeed this was by no means the first accident of the kind which had occurred through the negligence of this unlucky young firebrand.
Page 96 - ... People built slighter and slighter every day, until it was feared that the very science of architecture would in no long time be lost to the world. Thus this custom of firing houses continued, till, in process of time, says my manuscript, a sage arose, like our Locke, who made a discovery, that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked (burnt as they called it) without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it.