...at rest. The solemn stillness was no marvel now. She was dead: no sleep so beautiful and calm, so 5 free from trace of pain, so fair to look upon. She...for the breath of life ; not one who had lived and had suffered death. Her couch was dressed with here and there someio winter berries and green leaves,...

...value 14; comprehension value 3.8). — Her couch was dressed with here and there some winter berries and green leaves, gathered In a spot she had been used to favor. "When I die, put near me something that has loved the light, and had the sky above it always."...

...Dickens's story of the death of Little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop has an effective musical quality. She was dead. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free...death. Her couch was dressed with here and there some winter berries and green leaves, gathered in a spot she had been used to favor. "When I die, put near...

...befriended Nell entered. Poor Nell had been dead for two days. "There upon her little bed she lay at rest. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free from trace...of life; not one who had lived and suffered death." Worn out by her long journey, her lack of food, her exposure, and the anxiety for her grandfather,...

...after each word or phrase except the last. He looked upon the world as a glad, bright, glorious world. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free from trace of pain, so fair to look upon.—DICKENS. When the last two words or phrases are connected by a conjunction, a comma should...

...one who had lived and suffered death. Her couch was dressed with here and there some winter berries and green leaves, gathered in a spot she had been used to favor. "When I die, put near me something that has loved the light, and had the sky above it always."...

...dissipation. " The Old Curiosity Shop," from which the following extract is taken, was , published in 1840. / SHE was dead. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free...death. ( Her couch was dressed with here and there some winter i berries and green leaves, gathered in a spot she had been used to favor. "When I die, put...

...say is the more pleasant? 299 April September June May Oc'tober (Turn to next page.) 329 314 berries and green leaves, gathered in a spot she had been used to 327 favor. "When I die, put near me something that has loved the 339 light, and had the sky above it...

...she was dead. There, upon her little bed, she lay at rest. The solemn stillness was no marvel now. She was dead. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free...death. Her couch was dressed with here and there some winter berries and green leaves, gathered in a spot she had been used to favour. "When I die, put near...

...verse-forms. The famous passage in which Dickens describes the death of Little Nell is an example of this She was dead. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free...of life ; not one who had lived and suffered death. illustrates what Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch has termed the " capital difficulty " of prose. " While with...