Standard Catholic Readers: Fifth reader for sixth, seventh, and eighth gradesAmerican Book Company, 1909 - 382 páginas |
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Standard Catholic Readers: Fifth Reader for Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth ... Mary E. Doyle Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abraham Æsop Androclus Arachne asked Athena beautiful began beggar birds Blessed Bob White Boone bright Brother Bernard cabin called Carl Müller CATH Child Christ church cloth cried daisy Daniel Boone Dauphin Dick earth EDWARD EGGLESTON ELIZA ALLEN STARR eyes father flag flowers forest France friends gave girls glad grass grew guerite hair happy head heard heart heaven holy Indians JAMES BALDWIN Joan kerchief knew lads learned light lion little daisy lived looked Lord Mary month moon morning mother never night Nokomis poor pray pretty queues river SAINT VERONICA shining Simon Stock Sister Marguerite snow soon spin and weave star stood T. B. ALDRICH taught tell things THIRD READER thought told took tree Valentine Veronica Ville-Marie wallet wild wind wonderful woods young
Pasajes populares
Página 83 - TWAS the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse ; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there...
Página 84 - kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap, When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
Página 15 - ... happy all the day. And sometimes for an hour or so I watched my leaden soldiers go, With different uniforms and drills, Among the bed-clothes, through the hills. And sometimes sent my ships in fleets All up and down among the sheets; Or brought my trees and houses out, And planted cities all about. I was the giant great and still That sits upon the pillow-hill, And sees before him, dale and plain, The pleasant Land of Counterpane.
Página 58 - There the wrinkled, old Nokomis Nursed the little Hiawatha, Rocked him in his linden cradle, Bedded soft in moss and rushes, Safely bound with reindeer sinews; Stilled his fretful wail by saying, "Hush! the Naked Bear will get thee!" Lulled him into slumber, singing, "Ewa-yea! my little owlet!
Página 59 - said the pine-trees, " Mudway-aushka ! " said the water. Saw the fire-fly, Wah-wah-taysee, Flitting through the dusk of evening, With the twinkle of its candle Lighting up the brakes and bushes, And he sang the song of children, Sang the song Nokomis taught him...
Página 80 - And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda ; for out of thee shall come a Governor that shall rule my people Israel.
Página 59 - Lulled him into slumber, singing, "Ewa-yea! my little owlet! Who is this that lights the wigwam? With his great eyes lights the wigwam? Ewa-yea! my little owlet!" Many things Nokomis taught him Of the stars that shine in heaven; Showed him Ishkoodah, the comet, Ishkoodah with fiery tresses; Showed the Death-Dance of the spirits, Warriors with their plumes and...
Página 85 - As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky, So, up to the house-top the coursers they flew, With a sleigh full of toys, — and St.
Página 86 - He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.
Página 206 - You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot: You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!