Shoemaker's Best Selections for Readings and Recitations, Issue 5Penn Publishing Company, 1905 |
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Swift she darted through the bushes , and with stupid wonder mute Stood I staring blankly after ere I started in pursuit . And a merry chase I gave her through the underbrush and copse ; Over fallen trunks and bowlders on she fled with ...
Swift she darted through the bushes , and with stupid wonder mute Stood I staring blankly after ere I started in pursuit . And a merry chase I gave her through the underbrush and copse ; Over fallen trunks and bowlders on she fled with ...
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... stood at the front door with his coat on , and asked me why I had been running down the street after Judge Leland . I didn't tell him . Not long after this adventure a worse one happened . Aristarchus had occasion to go down into the ...
... stood at the front door with his coat on , and asked me why I had been running down the street after Judge Leland . I didn't tell him . Not long after this adventure a worse one happened . Aristarchus had occasion to go down into the ...
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... stood my boy in the jaws of death ; On came the fierce fiend , tearing straight for the centre line , And the hand that must wreck or save it , O merciful God ! was mine . ' Twas a hundred lives or Johnny's . ' Twas that ! what could I ...
... stood my boy in the jaws of death ; On came the fierce fiend , tearing straight for the centre line , And the hand that must wreck or save it , O merciful God ! was mine . ' Twas a hundred lives or Johnny's . ' Twas that ! what could I ...
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... stood , and viewed her from within . She wore a gown of sober gray , a cape demure and prim , With only simple fold and hem , yet dainty , neat , and trim . Her bonnet , too , was gray and stiff ; its only line of grace Was in the lace ...
... stood , and viewed her from within . She wore a gown of sober gray , a cape demure and prim , With only simple fold and hem , yet dainty , neat , and trim . Her bonnet , too , was gray and stiff ; its only line of grace Was in the lace ...
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... stood , Where the hammering red - heads hopped away , And the buzzard raised in the open sky , And lolled and circled as we went by , Out to old Aunt Mary's . And then in the dust of the road again ; And the teams we met and the ...
... stood , Where the hammering red - heads hopped away , And the buzzard raised in the open sky , And lolled and circled as we went by , Out to old Aunt Mary's . And then in the dust of the road again ; And the teams we met and the ...
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Popular passages
Page 54 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die.
Page 73 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Page 63 - God is not a man, that he should lie; Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Page 54 - May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees, When I widen the rent in my wind-built tent, Till the calm rivers, lakes and seas, Like strips of the sky fallen through me on high, Are each paved with the moon and these.