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... asked all sorts of ques- tions about it ? " But Leander gave voice to my fears when he asked me one day in his father's absence , " Don't you think Pa acts as if he is going crazy ? He talks to himself half the time lately when he is ...
... asked all sorts of ques- tions about it ? " But Leander gave voice to my fears when he asked me one day in his father's absence , " Don't you think Pa acts as if he is going crazy ? He talks to himself half the time lately when he is ...
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... asked Aristarchus what he would like for dinner , he would most likely answer : " Great rats , small rats , lean rats , brawny rats , Brown rats , black rats , gray rats , tawny rats , Grave old plodders , gay young friskers . " " O ...
... asked Aristarchus what he would like for dinner , he would most likely answer : " Great rats , small rats , lean rats , brawny rats , Brown rats , black rats , gray rats , tawny rats , Grave old plodders , gay young friskers . " " O ...
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... asked if my husband was an ex - convict . When I got back to the house Aristarchus 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 ...
... asked if my husband was an ex - convict . When I got back to the house Aristarchus 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 ...
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... asking , " How can these things be ? " " Well , " he says , " I'm not quite up to the mark , somehow . I have no trust but in Jesus , an ' I don't want to have . But I've a good many doubts an ' fears , - why , not fears exactly , but ...
... asking , " How can these things be ? " " Well , " he says , " I'm not quite up to the mark , somehow . I have no trust but in Jesus , an ' I don't want to have . But I've a good many doubts an ' fears , - why , not fears exactly , but ...
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... ASKED of Echo , ' tother day ( Whose words are few and often funny ) , What to a novice she could say Of courtship , love , and matrimony ? Quoth Echo , plainly : " Matter - o ' - money ! " Whom should I marry ? Should it be A dashing ...
... ASKED of Echo , ' tother day ( Whose words are few and often funny ) , What to a novice she could say Of courtship , love , and matrimony ? Quoth Echo , plainly : " Matter - o ' - money ! " Whom should I marry ? Should it be A dashing ...
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Page 34 - UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 6 - Whom mortals call the moon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the midnight breezes strewn ; And wherever the beat of her unseen feet, Which only the angels hear, 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...
Page 67 - I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob; and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Page 6 - 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 36 - Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start; Who, through long days of labor And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer.
Page 16 - Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
Page 4 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun.
Page 185 - There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me— That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine...
Page 183 - ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly , both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro...
Page 14 - And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him.