The Dennes of Daundelyonn, Volume 1Smith, Elder, 1859 |
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Page 37
... touched her sharply on the shoulder as if to recall her to herself ; but this soon passed off , and we were doing our best to behave well and to be very good and quiet as we had promised . Florence , nestling on the sofa by mamma's side ...
... touched her sharply on the shoulder as if to recall her to herself ; but this soon passed off , and we were doing our best to behave well and to be very good and quiet as we had promised . Florence , nestling on the sofa by mamma's side ...
Page 52
... touching ; more perhaps than it has others , on account of the early recollections associated with it . Morgan having decided in her own mind that we should be allowed to see our mother once again , principally to counteract the effect ...
... touching ; more perhaps than it has others , on account of the early recollections associated with it . Morgan having decided in her own mind that we should be allowed to see our mother once again , principally to counteract the effect ...
Page 167
... touching ceremony just witnessed might have a lasting effect upon all present . He was eloquently minute as to the mode by which the Temple of Solomon was constructed , and un- bounded in his praise of the great and good king its ...
... touching ceremony just witnessed might have a lasting effect upon all present . He was eloquently minute as to the mode by which the Temple of Solomon was constructed , and un- bounded in his praise of the great and good king its ...
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... out wildly , she had touched the clay - cold something she thought to be a corpse , which , by some super- natural agency , had been suddenly thrown heavily VOL . I. upon her bed . This had caused the first shriek NOCTURNAL ALARMS . 193.
... out wildly , she had touched the clay - cold something she thought to be a corpse , which , by some super- natural agency , had been suddenly thrown heavily VOL . I. upon her bed . This had caused the first shriek NOCTURNAL ALARMS . 193.
Page 236
... touches converted the blooming half - sketched rose into a pale withered blossom — a canker at its heart . I watched her with amazement . Pale as death , but almost as calm , she silently continued to draw leaf after leaf . At last it ...
... touches converted the blooming half - sketched rose into a pale withered blossom — a canker at its heart . I watched her with amazement . Pale as death , but almost as calm , she silently continued to draw leaf after leaf . At last it ...
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Page 9 - They say it was a shocking sight after the field was won; for many thousand bodies here lay rotting in the sun; but things like that, you know, must be after a famous victory. Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, and our good Prince Eugene. "Why, 'twas a very wicked thing!" said little Wilhelmine. "Nay... nay... my little girl," quoth he, "it was a famous victory.