Story Hour Readings: Fourth yearAmerican Book Company, 1921 - 367 pages |
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... Night Fishing in the South Seas A Ballad of East and West Howard Mingos 129 Cecil Roberts 137 Frank T. Bullen 138 ... Night among the Pines Autumn on the Farm Goldenrod The Palisades On the Grasshopper and Cricket To a Waterfowl A Night ...
... Night Fishing in the South Seas A Ballad of East and West Howard Mingos 129 Cecil Roberts 137 Frank T. Bullen 138 ... Night among the Pines Autumn on the Farm Goldenrod The Palisades On the Grasshopper and Cricket To a Waterfowl A Night ...
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... night , and Ali Hafed went to bed , but not to sleep . All night long he tossed restlessly 25 from side to side , thinking , planning , scheming , how he could secure some diamonds . The demon of discontent had entered his soul , and ...
... night , and Ali Hafed went to bed , but not to sleep . All night long he tossed restlessly 25 from side to side , thinking , planning , scheming , how he could secure some diamonds . The demon of discontent had entered his soul , and ...
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... night as he wandered back and forth vainly trying to find some place to escape . Not long after this it happened that Dædalus was guilty 15 of a deed which angered the king very greatly ; and had not Minos wished him to build other ...
... night as he wandered back and forth vainly trying to find some place to escape . Not long after this it happened that Dædalus was guilty 15 of a deed which angered the king very greatly ; and had not Minos wished him to build other ...
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... night he locked himself up in his chamber and wrought secretly by candlelight . By and by he had made for himself a pair of strong wings , and for Icarus another pair of smaller ones ; and then , s one midnight , when everybody was ...
... night he locked himself up in his chamber and wrought secretly by candlelight . By and by he had made for himself a pair of strong wings , and for Icarus another pair of smaller ones ; and then , s one midnight , when everybody was ...
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... night , my knife is at thy throat . The noonday sun shall not discover thy enemy , and the darkness of midnight shall not protect thy rest . Thou shalt plant in terror , and I will reap in blood ; thou shalt sow the earth with corn ...
... night , my knife is at thy throat . The noonday sun shall not discover thy enemy , and the darkness of midnight shall not protect thy rest . Thou shalt plant in terror , and I will reap in blood ; thou shalt sow the earth with corn ...
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Page 168 - TO A WATERFOWL Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 278 - We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow.
Page 105 - For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths— for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead.
Page 319 - Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?
Page 300 - But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
Page 299 - And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band: "Strike ! till the last armed foe expires ! Strike ! for your altars and your fires ! Strike ! for the green graves of your sires ; God, and your native land...
Page 335 - WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE? BY WILLIAM JONES "1 T 7"HAT constitutes a State ? * * Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; • Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred 'and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : — men, high-minded men...
Page 321 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
Page 184 - His going forth is from the end of the heaven, And his circuit unto the ends of it : And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Page 311 - WARREN'S ADDRESS AT THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL BY JOHN PIERPONT OTAND! the ground's your own, my braves! ^ Will ye give it up to slaves?