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Page 13
... watched her grow from a tiny Christmas - tree to a beautiful maiden with lovely sym- metrical green arms that stretch toward me , and with green hair that trembles in the wind , but never grows ruffled or fuzzy and never falls to the ...
... watched her grow from a tiny Christmas - tree to a beautiful maiden with lovely sym- metrical green arms that stretch toward me , and with green hair that trembles in the wind , but never grows ruffled or fuzzy and never falls to the ...
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... watched a slender tongue of flame whipping the smoke upwards . The bedtime story was always to him a season of de- light , a ten - minute ramble into fairyland . And this strange friend of his , whom he knew only as Daddy X , always had ...
... watched a slender tongue of flame whipping the smoke upwards . The bedtime story was always to him a season of de- light , a ten - minute ramble into fairyland . And this strange friend of his , whom he knew only as Daddy X , always had ...
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Robert J. C. Stead. gone . Then the lids fell , and , as he watched , Cal saw little pools of water gather through her lashes . " Celesta , dear , " he whispered , " tell me . " " It isn't easy telling , " she said at length , in a voice ...
Robert J. C. Stead. gone . Then the lids fell , and , as he watched , Cal saw little pools of water gather through her lashes . " Celesta , dear , " he whispered , " tell me . " " It isn't easy telling , " she said at length , in a voice ...
Page 76
... watched them with great interest , thinking that such wonderful big creatures would not trouble a little gopher who lived only on grass and seeds . But suddenly the dog rushed upon him , with great loud barks , louder and lustier than ...
... watched them with great interest , thinking that such wonderful big creatures would not trouble a little gopher who lived only on grass and seeds . But suddenly the dog rushed upon him , with great loud barks , louder and lustier than ...
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... watched the little rivulet of cream trickling out of its long slender spout into the receptacle placed for it , while presently his arms cramped to the ache of a strange exercise and the sweat began to gather on his face . " My land ...
... watched the little rivulet of cream trickling out of its long slender spout into the receptacle placed for it , while presently his arms cramped to the ache of a strange exercise and the sweat began to gather on his face . " My land ...
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Adam's apple ain't Annie Frawdic answer Antelope arms asked began Big Jim boy's boy's sake Bradshaw bruiséd reed Cal and Reed Cal Beach Cal felt Cal's Celesta cloud corner cream separator Daddy Daddy X dark Dinty Moore doctor door Double F eyes face farm farmer Father Gopher fell field fingers fire flax Ford Gander gasoline girl glow gone granary Grandma Grit hair hand head heart horses Jackson Stake knew lake light lips looked mind Minnie Stake Minnie's morning mother never night nurse old Ford perhaps Plainville prairie Reed's road seemed shadow silence sleep stable stood strange sudden suddenly supper sure tell there's thing thought tion to-night told took trail Trix turned voice watched wheat Wheatview wheel window Winnipeg wondered words young Jackson
Popular passages
Page 218 - He shall not cry, nor lift up, Nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench : He shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
Page 113 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Page 106 - Twilight a-stealing over the sea, Shadows are falling, dark on the lea. Borne on the night wind, voices of yore Come from the far-off shore. Far away, beyond the starry sky, Where the love-light never, never dies, Gleameth a mansion filled with delight, Sweet happy home so bright.
Page 44 - DD's [degrees], or whatever it is, after his name. What he wants is horsepower an' savvy,
Page 57 - ... very gently and cautiously stroked, pressed and pinched the tiny nose just in the hope of discovering for good and all whether it was not as other noses are. And on every occasion she became more and more convinced that there was no hope at all, that it was the same in substance and consistency as it had been the day before and the day before that and the day before that; that, in fact, it was of wax. The consequence was that even at the age of six this particular feature in Sam's rather long...
Page 7 - Grass, green and moist, with a purple carpeting of anemones. Water shining from many tiny lakes. Coveys of white clouds, like ruffled swans, afloat in an infinite sky.
Page 26 - He had made up his mind that under no circumstances would he go back to his old home.
Page 287 - Jackson had lain down and fallen asleep, but as his eyes became accustomed to the light he saw that...
Page 121 - They haven'ta glimpse of what it should be — of what it could be made — " "That's just it,