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Page 53
... appeared to have closed her eyes for ever . When he spoke to her , she opened them for a short time . She looked into his face , and she evidently knew him ; but her lips were sealed , and she could not speak . Yet there was a smile on ...
... appeared to have closed her eyes for ever . When he spoke to her , she opened them for a short time . She looked into his face , and she evidently knew him ; but her lips were sealed , and she could not speak . Yet there was a smile on ...
Page 54
... appeared in the cabin with the startling news that we had parted both anchors ! The hurricane had begun , and we were now wholly at the mercy of the winds and waves . I immediately begged the young man to go on deck , and look out for ...
... appeared in the cabin with the startling news that we had parted both anchors ! The hurricane had begun , and we were now wholly at the mercy of the winds and waves . I immediately begged the young man to go on deck , and look out for ...
Page 56
... appeared an age of anxiety and deep suspense to those who had passed all the night on the cold side or rigging of ... appearance of land , within a few hundred yards of us , was a most cheering sight . brig had been driven into a small ...
... appeared an age of anxiety and deep suspense to those who had passed all the night on the cold side or rigging of ... appearance of land , within a few hundred yards of us , was a most cheering sight . brig had been driven into a small ...
Page 57
... appearance , Hendrik knew they were either antelopes or deer ; and , as Hans had told him there were no deer in Southern Africa , he concluded they must be some species of antelope . They were a buck and doe , this he knew , because one ...
... appearance , Hendrik knew they were either antelopes or deer ; and , as Hans had told him there were no deer in Southern Africa , he concluded they must be some species of antelope . They were a buck and doe , this he knew , because one ...
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... appeared . What could it be ? It had kept its place - it had not pursued him . Perhaps it was not at all dangerous . No doubt it was harmless enough . So reasoned the ourebi . His curiosity overcame his fear . He would go a little ...
... appeared . What could it be ? It had kept its place - it had not pursued him . Perhaps it was not at all dangerous . No doubt it was harmless enough . So reasoned the ourebi . His curiosity overcame his fear . He would go a little ...
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Popular passages
Page 140 - I COME from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.
Page 21 - And sweep through the deep While the stormy winds do blow; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave! For the deck it was their field of fame, And ocean was their grave ; Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell, Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Page 204 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Page 92 - Thou bringest unto me a tale Of visionary hours. Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring! Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing, A voice, a mystery...
Page 214 - Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace, Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.
Page 205 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bridemaidens whispered, " 'Twere better by far, To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Page 96 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Page 141 - I steal by lawns and grassy plots, I slide by hazel covers ; I move the sweet forget-me-nots That grow for happy lovers. I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance, Among my skimming swallows ; I make the netted sunbeam dance Against my sandy shallows. I murmur under moon and stars In brambly wildernesses ; I linger by my shingly bars ; I loiter round my cresses ; And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Page 204 - NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note— As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Page 95 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there.