Witch Winnie's Mystery, Or, The Old Oak Cabinet: The Story of a King's Daughter

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Dodd, Mead, 1891 - Boarding schools - 395 pages

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Page 312 - Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall; but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Page 327 - — upon the river ; Some jealousy of some one's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted, A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows, — and then we parted. We parted ; months and years rolled by...
Page 369 - I learnt a little algebra, a little Of the mathematics, — brushed with extreme flounce The circle of the sciences, because She misliked women who are frivolous.
Page 369 - I learnt much music, such as would have been As quite impossible in Johnson's day As still it might be wished, fine sleights of hand And unimagined fingering, shuffling off The hearer's soul through hurricanes of notes To a noisy Tophet ; and I drew . . . costumes From French engravings, nereids neatly draped (With smirks of simmering godship).
Page 349 - And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
Page 188 - While children to windows and stoops would fly, Expecting to see a procession pass by, And they couldn't make out why it never drew nigh, With its...
Page 188 - So if it should be that a war breaks out, They'll all be ready, I have no doubt, To help in putting the foe to rout, With their boom-tidera-da-boom— Boom-tidera-da-boom...

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