The Day's WorkDoubleday & McClure, 1898 - 431 páginas |
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abstrac ain't Archangels asked ball Bell Bhils Board boat body-snatcher Breslau bridge Bukta Cottar crew Dimbula dreams engine-room engines eyes Faiz Ullah feet Findlayson fire-carriage foot forward Georgie girl Gods goin grey Grey Dawn Grotkau half Haliotis Hambletonian hand Hanuman head heard Hitchcock Holdock hour hundred Jan Chinn John Chinn Kittiwynk knew Lammergeyer laughed looked Lutyens Maltese Cat Martyn Master Georgie McPhee McRimmon miles Mother Gunga navvy never night Peroo play Polaris Poney ponies pound Purple Emperor regiment remember rivets round Sahib Satpura Scott Shikast ship Shiraz shouted side Skidars skipper steam stood talk Tedda tell There's things thou thought tiger told took turned voice waiting Wardrop whispered William Wilton yellow horse young
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Página 239 - To you in David's town, this day, Is born of David's line, The Saviour, who is Christ the Lord ; And this shall be the sign. 4 " The heavenly babe you there shall find To human view displayed, All meanly wrapped in swathing bands, And in a manger laid.
Página 363 - IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Página 213 - As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say 'The breath goes now,' and some say 'No'; So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods nor sigh-tempests move; 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears, Men reckon what it did and meant; But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent. Dull sublunary lovers...
Página 193 - I have done one braver thing Than all the Worthies did, And yet a braver thence doth spring, Which is, to keep that hid.
Página 370 - I've ever felt," said the navvy, with suddenness. " What — did — you — give — me — the — drink — for ? " The matter seemed to be so purely personal that I withdrew to a strategic position on the overhead bridge, and, abiding in the exact centre, looked on from afar. I could see the white road that ran across the shoulder of Salisbury Plain, unshaded for mile after mile, and a dot in the middle distance, the back of the one porter returning to Framlynghame Admiral, if such a place existed,...
Página 206 - Life among men who had a great deal of work to do, and very little time to do it in, had taught her the wisdom of effacing, as well as of fending for, herself. She did not by word or deed suggest that she would be useful, comforting, or beautiful in their travels, but continued about her business serenely : put the cups back without clatter when tea was ended, and made cigarettes for her guests. " This time last night," said Scott, "we did n't expect — er— this kind of thing, did we?
Página 273 - No man can manage his stick and his reins and his whip that way," said The Maltese Cat. " I've fallen over every square yard of the Malta ground, and I ought to know." He quivered his little, flea-bitten withers just to show how satisfied he felt; but his heart was not so light. Ever since he had drifted into India on a troop-ship, taken, with an old rifle, as part payment for a racing debt, The Maltese Cat had played and preached polo to the Skidars' team on the Skidars
Página 275 - Keep the ball hanging, then," said Shiraz. " That wears out every pony that is not used to it." Next time there was no easy galloping across the ground. All the Archangels closed up as one man, but there they stayed, for Corks, Kittiwynk, and Polaris were somewhere on the top of the ball, marking time among the rattling sticks, while Shiraz circled about outside, waiting for a chance. " We can do this all day," said Polaris, ramming his quarters into the side of another pony.
Página 3 - For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease, with responsibility almost too heavy for one pair of shoulders; and day by day, through that time, the great Kashi Bridge over the Ganges had grown under his charge.
Página 392 - Republic takes no harm,' and Georgie was glad to be back in authority when the holidays ended. Behind him, but not too near, was the wise and temperate Head, now suggesting the wisdom of the serpent, now counselling the mildness of the dove; leading him on to see, more by half-hints than by any direct word, how boys and men are all of a piece, and how he who can handle the one will assuredly in time control the other.