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... God in Nature 131 Divers , A Tale of the Depth of the Watch Pincushion 45 Love ... 33 Ocean 183 Watch Pocket in Pique and Braid 79 ... www Her father brought her to Ivy House by her mother's vi THE BOYS ' AND GIRLS ' COMPANION .
... God in Nature 131 Divers , A Tale of the Depth of the Watch Pincushion 45 Love ... 33 Ocean 183 Watch Pocket in Pique and Braid 79 ... www Her father brought her to Ivy House by her mother's vi THE BOYS ' AND GIRLS ' COMPANION .
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... ivy , with broad leaves , under whose shel- ter the house - sparrows , our ever - busy and familiar friends , had built their ragged and straggling nests . The ivy crept from this wall ( which be- longed to an orchard ) over the front ...
... ivy , with broad leaves , under whose shel- ter the house - sparrows , our ever - busy and familiar friends , had built their ragged and straggling nests . The ivy crept from this wall ( which be- longed to an orchard ) over the front ...
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... Ivy House by her mother's express desire ; for the Curate and his daughter , who conducted our school , had formerly lived in Durham , and had been valued fiends of Mrs. Campbell . The great trial of parting from her papa , who was ...
... Ivy House by her mother's express desire ; for the Curate and his daughter , who conducted our school , had formerly lived in Durham , and had been valued fiends of Mrs. Campbell . The great trial of parting from her papa , who was ...
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... ivy tower , into the blaze and rattled away an overture on the piano . It was as if a few plain words of plain sense ... Ivy House . that his son was the eldest pupil , whose educa- tion was nearly finished , and who was to take his ...
... ivy tower , into the blaze and rattled away an overture on the piano . It was as if a few plain words of plain sense ... Ivy House . that his son was the eldest pupil , whose educa- tion was nearly finished , and who was to take his ...
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... Ivy House by a morning train . They slept on the third story of Mr. Trueby's house , in an odd shaped little room , cut off from a suite of offices , and just holding the substantial four - post bed , a corner wash - stand , and a very ...
... Ivy House by a morning train . They slept on the third story of Mr. Trueby's house , in an odd shaped little room , cut off from a suite of offices , and just holding the substantial four - post bed , a corner wash - stand , and a very ...
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Page 128 - And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of Heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not, for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is'. 'Arise lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation'.
Page 152 - Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? Whose house I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwellings. He scorneth the multitude of the city, Neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searcheth after every green thing.
Page 189 - And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning.
Page 190 - Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither ; for GOD did send me before you to preserve life.
Page 160 - The tickling pleasure, which he experienced in his lower regions, had rendered him quite callous to any inconveniences he might feel in those remote quarters. His father might lay on, but he could not beat him from his pig, till he had fairly made an end of it, when, becoming a little more sensible of his situation, something like the following dialogue ensued. " You graceless whelp, what have you got there .devouring ? Is it not enough that you have...
Page 161 - The judge, who was a shrewd fellow, winked at the manifest iniquity of the decision : and when the court was dismissed, went privily and bought up all the pigs that could be had for love or money. In a few days his Lordship's town-house was observed to be on fire.
Page 260 - And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters ; for I know their sorrows. And I am come down to deliver them...
Page 161 - Eat, eat, eat the burnt pig, father, only taste — O Lord" — with such-like barbarous ejaculations, cramming all the while as if he would choke. Ho-ti trembled in every joint while he grasped the abominable thing, wavering whether he should not put his son to death for an unnatural young monster, when, the crackling scorching his fingers, as it had done his son's, and applying the same remedy to them, he in his turn tasted some of its flavor, which, make what sour mouths he would for a pretence,...
Page 161 - Thus this custom of firing houses continued, till in process of time, says my manuscript, a sage arose, like our Locke, who made a discovery, that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked (burnt, as they called it) without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it.
Page 306 - Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: and I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.