The Jones Readers by Grades: Book one-[eight], Book 5Ginn, 1904 |
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... round his quivering loins . Going along thus , in the full sun , on a scorching highway , having eaten nothing for 15 twenty - four hours , and , which was far worse to him , not having tasted water for nearly twelve , being blind with ...
... round his quivering loins . Going along thus , in the full sun , on a scorching highway , having eaten nothing for 15 twenty - four hours , and , which was far worse to him , not having tasted water for nearly twelve , being blind with ...
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... round his rugged neck chains of marguerites , and kissed him with fresh and ruddy lips . So then , when Patrasche arose himself again , strong , big , gaunt , powerful , his great wistful eyes hac a gentle 20 astonishment in them that ...
... round his rugged neck chains of marguerites , and kissed him with fresh and ruddy lips . So then , when Patrasche arose himself again , strong , big , gaunt , powerful , his great wistful eyes hac a gentle 20 astonishment in them that ...
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... round his tawny neck . 15 The next morning , Patrasche , before the old man had touched the cart , arose and walked to it and placed him- self betwixt its handles , and testified as plainly as dumb show could do his desire and his ...
... round his tawny neck . 15 The next morning , Patrasche , before the old man had touched the cart , arose and walked to it and placed him- self betwixt its handles , and testified as plainly as dumb show could do his desire and his ...
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... round Which he beside the rivulet In playing there had found ; He came to ask what he had found That was so large and smooth and round . Old Kaspar took it from the boy , Who stood expectant by ; . And then the old man shook his head ...
... round Which he beside the rivulet In playing there had found ; He came to ask what he had found That was so large and smooth and round . Old Kaspar took it from the boy , Who stood expectant by ; . And then the old man shook his head ...
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... round Was wasted far and wide , And many a tender mother then , And new - born baby died ; But things like that , you know , must be At every famous victory . " Great praise the Duke of Marlbro ' won And our good Prince Eugene ; " " Why ...
... round Was wasted far and wide , And many a tender mother then , And new - born baby died ; But things like that , you know , must be At every famous victory . " Great praise the Duke of Marlbro ' won And our good Prince Eugene ; " " Why ...
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Abridged American Antæus asked August Baldur beautiful birds blue bright brook called Canute CELIA THAXTER child cold creature cried dark dear earth EMILE SOUVESTRE English Ernest eyes fairy famous father feet flowers friends gentle GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS Giant gold Golden Touch gray green grew Habersham hand happy head heard heart Hermod hills of Habersham Hirschvogel J. G. HOLLAND JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY King Midas lived looked Manstin mother NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE never night Nolan O'Connell Pasha Patrasche play poet poor Pygmies river rose round seemed singing sleep Sleipnir smile snow song spring stars Stone Face stood story stove sunshine sweet tell thee things Thou thought took tree turned valleys of Hall voice wild WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY wind winter wood word writer young ZITKALA-SA
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Page 263 - Although thy breath be rude. Heigh, ho ! sing, heigh, ho ! unto the green holly : Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly Then, heigh, ho, the holly ! This life is most jolly.
Page 114 - The finch, the sparrow, and the lark, The plain-song cuckoo gray, Whose note full many a man doth mark, And dares not answer nay...
Page 121 - I CHATTER over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Page 88 - Heaven is not reached at a single bound ; But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit, round by round.
Page 17 - Old Kaspar took it from the boy Who stood expectant by; And then the old man shook his head, And with a natural sigh " 'Tis some poor fellow's skull," said he, "Who fell in the great victory.
Page 170 - Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
Page 272 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand?
Page 17 - IT wAS a summer evening; Old Kaspar's work was done. And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun; And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine. She saw her brother Peterkin Roll something large and round. Which he beside the rivulet In playing there had found; He came to ask what he had found. That was so large and smooth and round. Old Kaspar took it from the boy, Who stood...
Page 168 - And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Page 93 - The poetry of earth is ceasing never : • On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills The cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever, And seems, to one in drowsiness half lost, The grasshopper's among some grassy hills.