 | Ellen M. Cyr - 1899 - 456 pages
...great sulky pike hanging midway down the water in silent state, as if it mocked at their impertinent 20 friskings. I had more pleasure in these busy-idle...and such-like common baits of children. Here John slyly deposited back upon the plate a bunch of grapes, which, not unobserved by Alice, he said to love... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - 1901 - 258 pages
...me, — or basking in the orangery, till I could almost fancy myself ripening too along with the is oranges and the limes in that grateful warmth, —...silent state, as if it mocked at their impertinent 20 friskings. I had more pleasure in these busy-idle diversions than in all the sweet flavors of peaches,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1901 - 120 pages
...limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a great sulky pike hanging mid20 way down the water in silent state, as if it mocked at their impertinent friskings, — I had... | |
 | Herbert Winckworth Tompkins - 1902 - 384 pages
...limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a...in these busy-idle diversions than in all the sweet flavoursof peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such like common baits of children." Mrs. Field died in... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1903 - 386 pages
...the limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish205 pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there...in these busyidle diversions than in all the sweet flavours of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such like common baits of children. Here John slily deposited... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1913 - 484 pages
...limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a...in these busy-idle diversions than in all the sweet flavours of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and such like common baits of children. Here John slyly deposited... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1903 - 888 pages
...limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a...in these busy-idle diversions than in all the sweet flavours of peaches, nectarines, oranges, and suchlike common baits of children. Here John slyly deposited... | |
 | William Peacock - 1903 - 408 pages
...the limes in that grateful warmth—or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fishpond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a...silent state, as if it mocked at their impertinent friskings,—I had more pleasure in these busy-idle diversions than in all the sweet flavours of peaches,... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 542 pages
...grateful warmth — or in patching the dace- ihat. -darted to and- fro in the fish-pond, aUthe.bottoin of .the garden, with here- and there a great sulky pike .hanging midway down the. water in.silent.state, as.if^itmocked a^' their impertinent friskings, — Lhad more, pleasure, in these... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 440 pages
...the old melancholy-looking yewtrees, or the firs, and picking up the red berries, and the fir apples, which were good for nothing but to look at, — or...oranges, and suchlike common baits of children. Here John slyly deposited back upon the plate a bunch of grapes, which, not unobserved by Alice, he had meditated... | |
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... look at — -or in lying about upon the fresh grass, with all the fine garden smells around me — or basking in the orangery, till I could almost fancy myself ripening, too, along with the oranges and the limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching... 
