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... telling stories of ghosts and fairies to a ring of breathless , close - buddled children , with whom she was quite an oracle . Sometimes also , though not very often , she allowed them a game at Blind - Harry , till their noise made her ...
... telling stories of ghosts and fairies to a ring of breathless , close - buddled children , with whom she was quite an oracle . Sometimes also , though not very often , she allowed them a game at Blind - Harry , till their noise made her ...
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... tell them of that " Other World " he had seen . " Old Beyond old Peter Stirling's dwelling was the Crown Inn , the only hostelrie of the Village . Mine hostess would sell no liquor after a certain hour in the evening ; and to nobody ...
... tell them of that " Other World " he had seen . " Old Beyond old Peter Stirling's dwelling was the Crown Inn , the only hostelrie of the Village . Mine hostess would sell no liquor after a certain hour in the evening ; and to nobody ...
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... tell the minister that the Sab- bath bell , as she came to the Kirk on the preceding day , had rung " Tak him , Jenny ! Tak him , Jenny ! " so dis- tinctly in her ears , that if a voice had spoken the words they could not have been ...
... tell the minister that the Sab- bath bell , as she came to the Kirk on the preceding day , had rung " Tak him , Jenny ! Tak him , Jenny ! " so dis- tinctly in her ears , that if a voice had spoken the words they could not have been ...
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... tell you how many verses there are in every chapter of the Bible . A second can crow you as ' twere any cock , so clear and true , he fetches challenge and defiance from every farm - yard within ear - shot round . A third can blow any ...
... tell you how many verses there are in every chapter of the Bible . A second can crow you as ' twere any cock , so clear and true , he fetches challenge and defiance from every farm - yard within ear - shot round . A third can blow any ...
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... tell how she lost her wits : Her mother , a widow of our Village , was milking her cow one evening in the dusk , when Menie , her only child , a lass of about sixteen , who had been at service , came hastily in , fell on her neck , and ...
... tell how she lost her wits : Her mother , a widow of our Village , was milking her cow one evening in the dusk , when Menie , her only child , a lass of about sixteen , who had been at service , came hastily in , fell on her neck , and ...
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Page 80 - And this is in the night. — Most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee...
Page 47 - Fraught with a transient, frozen shower, If a cloud should haply lower, Sailing o'er the landscape dark, Mute on a sudden is the lark ; But when gleams the sun again O'er the pearl-besprinkled plain. And from behind his watery veil Looks through the thin descending hail ; She mounts, and, lessening to the sight, Salutes the blithe return of light, And high her tuneful track pursues Mid the dim rainbow's scatter'd hues.
Page 171 - Nature seemed In silent contemplation to adore Its Maker. Now and then the aged leaf Fell from its fellows, rustling to the ground, And as it fell bade man think on his end.
Page 60 - Countrymen, My heart doth joy that yet, in all my life, I found no man but he was true to me. I shall have glory by this losing day, More than Octavius and Mark Antony By this vile conquest shall attain unto. So fare you well at once; for Brutus...
Page 214 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy GOD chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy GOD, to walk in His ways, and to fear Him. For the LORD thy GOD bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Page 39 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Page 57 - Amphytrion to the Stage, I heard him give it his first Reading to the Actors, in which, though it is true he deliver'd the plain Sense of every Period, yet the whole was in so cold, so flat, and unaffecting a manner, that I am afraid of not being believ'd when I affirm it.
Page 214 - And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war^/zV for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains...