The American Normal Readers: Fifth BookSilver, Burdett and Company, 1912 - 416 страници |
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... feet above the level of the sea . Here ponies were in waiting , and those of the passengers who wished to visit the Big Trees that day set out for a farther six miles through the thick woods . This Californian forest reaches here its ...
... feet above the level of the sea . Here ponies were in waiting , and those of the passengers who wished to visit the Big Trees that day set out for a farther six miles through the thick woods . This Californian forest reaches here its ...
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... feet around , two feet above the ground , is called " Grizzly Giant . " One , thirty feet in diameter , has a carriage road through its trunk , and the stump of another , twenty - four feet in diameter , forms a dancing floor . One ...
... feet around , two feet above the ground , is called " Grizzly Giant . " One , thirty feet in diameter , has a carriage road through its trunk , and the stump of another , twenty - four feet in diameter , forms a dancing floor . One ...
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... feet . The air is filled with the sweet fragrance of flowers and of pine , with the fresh spicy odors of summer Sierras eight thousand feet above the sea . As we ride along in the early summer afternoon through the undulating forest ...
... feet . The air is filled with the sweet fragrance of flowers and of pine , with the fresh spicy odors of summer Sierras eight thousand feet above the sea . As we ride along in the early summer afternoon through the undulating forest ...
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... feet . This is the " Chief of the Valley " of the Indians , " El Capitan " of the White Man . Looking up along the line of the southern rim , the great " Half Dome " is seen . Six thousand feet it towers above the valley . The " Cap of ...
... feet . This is the " Chief of the Valley " of the Indians , " El Capitan " of the White Man . Looking up along the line of the southern rim , the great " Half Dome " is seen . Six thousand feet it towers above the valley . The " Cap of ...
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... feet in height . In reality , the Yosemite cataract is nearly twenty- five hundred feet high , more than twice as high as Niagara , and is the highest waterfall in the world . It is a powerful stream , the Merced River , thirty - five ...
... feet in height . In reality , the Yosemite cataract is nearly twenty- five hundred feet high , more than twice as high as Niagara , and is the highest waterfall in the world . It is a powerful stream , the Merced River , thirty - five ...
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ALFRED TENNYSON Ariel Asgard Balder beautiful bells bird blessed Bob Cratchit Bob-o'-link boys Bregenz bright brother Bruce called captain chee cheer child Christmas coral Cratchit cried dear deep DERVISH door Druid earth England English eyes face father feet fire Florence Nightingale flowers forest friends Frigga frost giants giants girls gods green Gretel hammer hand head heard heart hundred island king land light lived Loki look Lord Mara master Miranda missions mistletoe mountain never night Patrasche Peter Picts poor Prospero reef ring Rip Van Winkle Robert Scotland Scots seemed shouted singing skate snow soldiers song spirit stand stones story summer tell thee things Thor thou thought Thrym thunder Tiny Tim tree valley village voice WASHINGTON IRVING wild WILLIAM ALLINGHAM wind winter Woden wonderful young
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Страница 283 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha, for Scotland's King and Law, Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Free-man stand, or Free-man fa', Let him on wi
Страница 410 - ... now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure we are met on a great battlefield of that war we have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live...
Страница 319 - HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!" he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade!
Страница 246 - RING out wild bells to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night ; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go ; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Страница 111 - Half-moon; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river, and the great city called by his name. That his father had once seen them in their old Dutch dresses playing at nine-pins in a hollow of the mountain ; and that he himself had heard, one summer afternoon, the sound of their balls, like distant peals of thunder.
Страница 98 - thy mistress leads thee a dog's life of it; but never mind, my lad, whilst I live thou shalt never want a friend to stand by thee!" Wolf would wag his tail, look wistfully in his master's face, and if dogs can feel pity I verily believe he reciprocated the sentiment with all his heart. In a long ramble of the kind on a fine autumnal day, Rip had unconsciously scrambled to one of the highest parts of the Kaatskill mountains.
Страница 53 - Will ye look for greener graves ? Hope ye mercy still ? What's the mercy despots feel ? Hear it in that battle peal ! Read it on yon bristling steel ! Ask it, ye who will...
Страница 106 - He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn ; but it too was gone. A large rickety wooden building stood in its place, with great gaping windows, some of them broken and mended with old hats and petticoats, and over the door was painted, " The Union Hotel, by Jonathan Doolittle.
Страница 107 - Rip was equally at a loss to comprehend the question; when a knowing, selfimportant old gentleman, in a sharp cocked hat, made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle, with one arm akimbo...
Страница 111 - Rip's story was soon told, for the whole twenty years had been to him but as one night. The neighbors stared when they heard it; some were seen to wink at each other and put their tongues in their cheeks; and the self-important man in the cocked hat, who, when the alarm was over, had returned to the field, screwed down the corners of his mouth and shook his head — upon which there was a general shaking of the head throughout the assemblage. It was determined, however, to take the opinion of old...