The Silent Readers, Volumen7John C. Winston Company, 1920 |
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Términos y frases comunes
alps American army Atalanta beautiful began bird boat boys brave Bruce called captain cave Charlemagne China colonies Count Charney cried Edward the Confessor enemy England English eyes face father feet fight fire fish flowers Friar garden Giant girl Gustavus Gustavus Vasa hand head heard horses island John John Finnemore killed King Robert knew Lady Jane land learned light lived looked Lord MARTHA WASHINGTON Milanion minutes mother never night Old Rusty Olger once Pocahontas Princess pupils Queen river Robert the Bruce Roger Bacon Roland Schoeneus Scotland Scout ship shore side stones stood story strange sword teacher tell thee things thou thought tokonoma told took Treasure Island tree trenches village wait walrus watch wild William Makepeace Thackeray wood words write young
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Página 12 - UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be, Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Página 327 - The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
Página 320 - And the stately Spanish men to their flagship bore him then, Where they laid him by the mast, old Sir Richard caught at last, And they praised him to his face with their courtly foreign grace; But he rose upon their decks, and he cried...
Página 94 - And the poor, baffled Jester in disgrace Was hustled back among the populace. In solemn state the Holy Week went by, And Easter Sunday gleamed upon the sky; The presence of the Angel, with its light, Before the sun rose, made...
Página 194 - Contemplation of my Deliverance, making a Thousand Gestures and Motions which I cannot describe, reflecting upon all my Comrades that were drowned, and that there should not be one Soul saved but myself; for, as for them, I never saw them afterwards, or any Sign of them, except three of their Hats, one Cap, and two Shoes that were not Fellows.
Página 204 - ... what art thou good for, Thou art not worth to me, no not the taking off of the Ground, one of those Knives is worth all this Heap, I have no Manner of use for thee, e'en remain where thou art, and go to the Bottom as a Creature whose Life is not worth saving.
Página 153 - She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
Página 326 - Here, without contemplating consequences, before high heaven and in the face of the world, I swear eternal fidelity to the just cause, as I deem it, of the land of my life, my liberty, and my love.
Página 287 - And it is further ordered, That where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders, they shall set up a grammar school, the masters thereof, being able to instruct youths, so far as they may be fitted for the university...
Página 91 - And when the Angel met him on his way, And half in earnest, half in jest, would say, Sternly, though tenderly, that he might feel The velvet scabbard held a sword of steel,