Cassell's Readable readers, Книга 51885 |
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... fire to the ball of hay , and , just as it began to blaze out well , I threw it among them . It worked like a charm . Instantly the wretches parted , three on each side , and skulked off slowly at right angles , their tails dragging as ...
... fire to the ball of hay , and , just as it began to blaze out well , I threw it among them . It worked like a charm . Instantly the wretches parted , three on each side , and skulked off slowly at right angles , their tails dragging as ...
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... fire in the leg , which must have shattered the bone , for he dropped behind instantly . " Bravo ! " was again cried from the corner . But the same moment was the moment of our greatest peril . My pistol fell into the sledge , as , with ...
... fire in the leg , which must have shattered the bone , for he dropped behind instantly . " Bravo ! " was again cried from the corner . But the same moment was the moment of our greatest peril . My pistol fell into the sledge , as , with ...
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... " All hailed , with uncontrolled delight , And general voice , the happy night , That to the cottage , as the crown , Brought tidings of salvation down . 40 45 The fire , with well - dried logs supplied ,. 16 FIFTH READING BOOK .
... " All hailed , with uncontrolled delight , And general voice , the happy night , That to the cottage , as the crown , Brought tidings of salvation down . 40 45 The fire , with well - dried logs supplied ,. 16 FIFTH READING BOOK .
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Cassell, ltd. The fire , with well - dried logs supplied , Went roaring up the chimney wide ; The huge hall - table's oaken face , Scrubbed till it shone , the day to grace , Bore then upon its massive board No mark to part the squire ...
Cassell, ltd. The fire , with well - dried logs supplied , Went roaring up the chimney wide ; The huge hall - table's oaken face , Scrubbed till it shone , the day to grace , Bore then upon its massive board No mark to part the squire ...
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... fire . Unless a purchaser could be found for this , the bargain was to fall through . I am afraid I required but slight urging to join in the scheme . I had four dollars and fifty cents on hand , and the treasurer advanced me the ...
... fire . Unless a purchaser could be found for this , the bargain was to fall through . I am afraid I required but slight urging to join in the scheme . I had four dollars and fifty cents on hand , and the treasurer advanced me the ...
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Abbot answered Arabs Arth attend began boat Book brave bring brother brought called camels changed death deep door dress England English eyes face father fear fell fire followed four give gold hand head hear heard heart heaven horse hour Hubert hundred John keep king Lady lake land leave light living look morning mountain never night opened passed person pieces poor Prince Queen reach remained replied rest river rocks Roland round sand seemed seen Seyton ship shoot shore shot side sleep soon sound stand stood strange tell tent thee thing thou thought told tongue took touch town trees true turned village whole wife wind Winkle woman young
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Страница 198 - On the lofty British line. It was ten of April morn by the chime ; As they drifted on their path There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For a time. But the might of England flushed To anticipate the scene ; And her van the fleeter rushed O'er the deadly space between.
Страница 109 - The orator bustled up to him, and, drawing him partly aside, inquired " on which side he voted ?" Rip stared in vacant stupidity. Another short but busy little fellow pulled him by the arm, and, rising on tiptoe, inquired in his ear, " whether he was Federal or Democrat...
Страница 101 - On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes. It was a bright, sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft and breasting the pure mountain breeze. "Surely," thought Rip. "I have not slept here all night.
Страница 90 - ... about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory. At the foot of these fairy mountains...
Страница 94 - Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village; which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty George the Third.
Страница 110 - Nicholas Vedder! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
Страница 104 - As he rose to walk, he found himself stiff in the joints, and wanting in his usual activity. "These mountain beds do not agree with me," thought Rip, " and if this frolic should lay me up with a fit of the rheumatism, I shall have a blessed time with Dame Van Winkle." With some difficulty he got down into the glen : he found the gully up which he and his companion had ascended the preceding evening ; but to his astonishment a mountain stream was now foaming down it, leaping from rock to rock, and...
Страница 194 - And the night went down, and the sun smiled out far over the summer sea, And the Spanish fleet with broken sides lay round us all in a ring; But they dared not touch us again, for they fear'd that we still could sting, So they watch'd what the end would be.
Страница 95 - ... of his wife, was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods. Here he would sometimes seat himself at the foot of a tree, and share the contents of his wallet with Wolf, with whom he sympathized as a fellowsufferer in persecution. "Poor Wolf...