Literature and Living, Book 2Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925 - Readers |
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... to be had without the least effort . Surely if a rabbit could eat the fungus , so could I ; I plucked a bit of the queer growth and took it with me . I reached my shelter without further adventure and at once 24 CONQUERING NATURE.
... to be had without the least effort . Surely if a rabbit could eat the fungus , so could I ; I plucked a bit of the queer growth and took it with me . I reached my shelter without further adventure and at once 24 CONQUERING NATURE.
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... took my frog spear , made my way to the brook and my trap . With excitement I pushed through the thick growth , for even with my newly acquired knowledge of edible fungus I felt that meat would be necessary , or at least welcome ...
... took my frog spear , made my way to the brook and my trap . With excitement I pushed through the thick growth , for even with my newly acquired knowledge of edible fungus I felt that meat would be necessary , or at least welcome ...
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... took up most of the space . The rough boards of the roof and walls had been hidden by a covering of newspapers . Cushions and curtains of turkey - red calico brightened the shack . The driver had slipped off his buffalo - coat and was ...
... took up most of the space . The rough boards of the roof and walls had been hidden by a covering of newspapers . Cushions and curtains of turkey - red calico brightened the shack . The driver had slipped off his buffalo - coat and was ...
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... took down an old hand - tooled volume , and lifted his eyebrows at the ancient coat - of - arms on the book- plate . He tiptoed across to the bench and pointed to the script beneath the plate : " Edward Winslow ( 7 ) TURKEY RED 35.
... took down an old hand - tooled volume , and lifted his eyebrows at the ancient coat - of - arms on the book- plate . He tiptoed across to the bench and pointed to the script beneath the plate : " Edward Winslow ( 7 ) TURKEY RED 35.
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... took particu- lar pleasure in this breaking of ground , for in almost all latitudes men dig into the earth for an even temperature . In the beginning of May , with the help of some of my ac- quaintances , I set up the frame of my house ...
... took particu- lar pleasure in this breaking of ground , for in almost all latitudes men dig into the earth for an even temperature . In the beginning of May , with the help of some of my ac- quaintances , I set up the frame of my house ...
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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.