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Page 267 - Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went, The lamb was sure to go.
Page 32 - For each glance of the eye so bright and black, Though I keep with heart's endeavour, — Your voice, when you wish the snowdrops back, Though it stay in my soul for ever ! — Yet I will but say what mere friends say, Or only a thought stronger ; I will hold your hand but as long as all may, Or so very little longer...
Page 418 - Accordingly he went to work building a fire that wouldn't burn. Then, forgetting the simple matter of dampers, the potatoes wouldn't bake. The tea-kettle boiled over and cracked the stove, and after that boiled dry and cracked itself. Finally the potatoes fell to baking with so much ardor that they overdid it and burnt up.
Page 411 - Well, everybody has to have their pesters, and you'll have to have yours," rejoined Miss Persis Tame, taking a pinch of snuff — the real Maccaboy — twice as large, with twice as fierce an action. " I don't know what it is to bury children, nor to lose a husband ; I s'pose I don't ; but I know what it is to be jammed round the world and not have a ruff to stick my head under. I wish I had all the money I ever spent traveling — and that's ' twelve dollars !" she continued, regretfully. " Why...
Page 418 - Tain't no way to live, this ain't," said he at last. " I'ma good mind to marry as ever I had to eat." So he put on his hat and walked out. The first person he met was Miss Persis Tame, who turned her back and fell to picking thoroughwort blossoms as he came up. " Look a here," said he, stopping short,
Page 15 - ... MINNA (blubbering): Her can't hear us. Her's just the old figgerhead we had thirty years. VAN: Her's an angel. Her knows everything. (He throws himself on his knees and lays his forehead on the boards; in a hoarse whisper:) That's the joss way. We all got t'do it. (The others do likewise.) SAM: Us '11 pray in turns.
Page 412 - You haven't heard, have you," she continued, "whether or no there was any other damage done by the gale?" "I don't know whether you would call it damage exactly," returned Captain Ben, " but Loizah Mullers got so scared she left me and went home. She said she couldn't stay and run the chance of another of our coast blows, and off she trapsed.
Page 418 - Sunday in meeting-time," continued the widower anxiously. " I do feel for you. A man alone is in a deplorable situation," replied Miss Tame "I'm sure I'd do anything in my power to help you.
Page 430 - During the fire the doors of the library remained locked, as they had been since the outbreak of the war. The Germans did not penetrate the building, but contented themselves with smashing the main window looking on the Vieux Marche. Through that window they introduced some inflammable liquid and fired a few shots, causing an immediate explosion. In such a way, by the use of chemicals, may be explained the fact that on the morning of the 26th the whole library was already destroyed, a thing which...
Page 16 - Amen. Youms known my whole life, great God Lily, and how I stole the Portagee's red bag, only it was almost empty, and . . . and that other thing. Send a lot of rain and a ship to save us. Amen. VAN [Crawling up beneath the figure and throwing himself full-length, hysterically.