Classics Old and New: A Series of School Readers, Book 4American Book Company, 1906 - Readers |
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... feet a man of poor appearance , hardly clothed , but armed with a chisel and a ham- mer ; and the man , with the help of these implements , struck off pieces of the rock , which he dressed into stones proper for cutting . " What is that ...
... feet a man of poor appearance , hardly clothed , but armed with a chisel and a ham- mer ; and the man , with the help of these implements , struck off pieces of the rock , which he dressed into stones proper for cutting . " What is that ...
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... feet crack open and print the snow with blood ; you may starve him until he eats up his harness ; but his strength and spirit alike seem unbroken . I have driven a team of nine dogs more than a hundred miles in a day and a night . I ...
... feet crack open and print the snow with blood ; you may starve him until he eats up his harness ; but his strength and spirit alike seem unbroken . I have driven a team of nine dogs more than a hundred miles in a day and a night . I ...
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... feet in length and two inches in thickness . This is armed at one end with a long iron spike , and is used to check the speed of the sledge in going down hills . The stick may also be used to stop the dogs when they leave the road , as ...
... feet in length and two inches in thickness . This is armed at one end with a long iron spike , and is used to check the speed of the sledge in going down hills . The stick may also be used to stop the dogs when they leave the road , as ...
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... feet from the road . Just at that moment three or four wild reindeer bounded out from behind a little rise of ground three or four hundred yards away . They galloped across the plain toward a deep ravine , through which ran a branch of ...
... feet from the road . Just at that moment three or four wild reindeer bounded out from behind a little rise of ground three or four hundred yards away . They galloped across the plain toward a deep ravine , through which ran a branch of ...
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... feet of living silver leaped into the air far across the water . The forces were engaged . The salmon tore up - stream , the tense line cutting the water like a tide - rip behind him , and the light bamboo bowed to breaking . What ...
... feet of living silver leaped into the air far across the water . The forces were engaged . The salmon tore up - stream , the tense line cutting the water like a tide - rip behind him , and the light bamboo bowed to breaking . What ...
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Page 43 - But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we — Of many far wiser than we — And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee...
Page 15 - Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more ! Her deck, once red with heroes...
Page 110 - My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Page 240 - All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below,— A universe of sky and snow!
Page 230 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How...
Page 200 - But still as wilder blew the wind And as the night grew drearer, Adown the glen rode armed men, Their trampling sounded nearer. ' O haste thee, haste ! ' the lady cries, 'Though tempests round us gather; I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father.
Page 200 - I'll forgive your Highland chief. My daughter ! Oh ! my daughter...
Page 252 - The Angel wrote and vanished. The next night It came again with a great wakening light, And showed the names whom love of God had blessed, And lo ! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.
Page 186 - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff ; And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh.
Page 186 - In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.