Chambers's English readers, ed. by J.M.D. Meiklejohn, Libro 3John Miller D. Meiklejohn 1878 |
Términos y frases comunes
Add adjectives Add verbs adjectives and verbs animal beast beautiful Bernard Binnock bird Bunny called castle Charlie clever cold corn Count Graaf courage cried DICTATION.-Learn to write domestic domestic sheep donkey door ducks EXERCISES.-1 Explain the following farmer father flesh flock Flopsy following adjectives following nouns following phrases following words goat ground habit hair hare horns horse India Indian iron kind knout lawyer Learn to spell lion little rabbits live look master milk morning Mungo Park never night nouns into adjectives paws peacock Point poor portcullis quagga QUESTIONS.-1 rain rats Ruffy sheep shew skin Slow-worm spaniel spell the following St Bernard dog Tell tiger toes Tomassie tower tree Turn the following verbs in sections walks wild wind wonder wood wool Younkers
Pasajes populares
Página 103 - All things that love the sun are out of doors; The sky rejoices in the morning's birth ; The grass is bright with rain-drops; — on the moors The hare is running races in her mirth ; And with her feet she from the plashy earth Raises a mist, that, glittering in the sun, Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
Página 62 - Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home ; A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere. Home ! home ! sweet, sweet home ! There's no place like home...
Página 12 - To-night will be a stormy night — You to the town must go; And take a lantern, Child, to light Your mother through the snow.
Página 102 - There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came heavily and fell in floods; But now the sun is rising calm and bright; The birds are singing in the distant woods...
Página 58 - So then to his palace returned he, And he sat down to supper merrily, And he slept that night like an innocent man, But Bishop Hatto never slept again. In the morning as he...
Página 113 - And then wheeling away to its cliff-built home ! What joy it must be to sail, upborne By a strong free wing, through the rosy morn, To meet the young sun, face to face, And pierce, like a shaft, the boundless space...
Página 58 - The great barn was full as it could hold Of women and children, and young and old. Then when he saw it could hold no more, Bishop Hatto he made fast the door; And while for mercy on Christ they call, He set fire to the barn and burnt them all. "I" faith, 'tis an excellent bonfire !" quoth he, " And the country is greatly obliged to me, For ridding it in these times forlorn Of Rats that only consume the corn.
Página 57 - The poor folk flocked from far and near ; The great barn was full as it could hold Of women and children, and young and old. Then when he saw it could hold no more, Bishop Hatto he made fast the door ; And...
Página 112 - How pleasant the life of a bird must be, Flitting about in each leafy tree ; In the leafy trees so broad and tall, Like a green and beautiful palace hall, With its airy chambers, light and boon...
Página 59 - Another came running presently, And he was pale as pale could be, ' Fly! my Lord Bishop, fly," quoth he, ' Ten thousand rats are coming this way — The Lord forgive you for yesterday! ' ' I'll go to my tower on the Rhine,' replied he, "Tis the safest place in Germany; The walls are high, and the shores are steep, And the stream is strong, and the water deep.