Story Hour Readings: Fourth yearAmerican Book Company, 1921 - 367 pages |
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... you hold in your hand a diamond . It is but a pretty black pebble I picked up in my garden . " " I tell you , " said the priest excitedly , " this is a genuine 30 diamond . I know one when I see it . 16 A SHEAF OF LEGENDS.
... you hold in your hand a diamond . It is but a pretty black pebble I picked up in my garden . " " I tell you , " said the priest excitedly , " this is a genuine 30 diamond . I know one when I see it . 16 A SHEAF OF LEGENDS.
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... Tell me how and where you found it . " " One day , " replied the farmer slowly , " having led my camel into the garden to drink , I noticed , as he put his s nose into the water , a sparkle of light coming from the white sand at the ...
... Tell me how and where you found it . " " One day , " replied the farmer slowly , " having led my camel into the garden to drink , I noticed , as he put his s nose into the water , a sparkle of light coming from the white sand at the ...
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... tell him thou art here . " Well might he be perturbed by Kilhugh's threat . For he remembered what had once happened in the days of King Lud , when all Britain had been shaken by a fearful 20 shriek . At the sound of it , men had grown ...
... tell him thou art here . " Well might he be perturbed by Kilhugh's threat . For he remembered what had once happened in the days of King Lud , when all Britain had been shaken by a fearful 20 shriek . At the sound of it , men had grown ...
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... tell me of him ; now hie thee back to him , running at full speed . 15 Invite him to come in ; and let every man who sees the light , and every man who blinks the eye , stand ready to do him honor . " The Dusky Hero with the Mighty ...
... tell me of him ; now hie thee back to him , running at full speed . 15 Invite him to come in ; and let every man who sees the light , and every man who blinks the eye , stand ready to do him honor . " The Dusky Hero with the Mighty ...
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... tell me thy name , " he said . " My name is Kilhugh , " replied the prince . " My father is Prince Kilith , and my mother was a sister of the fair Ygerne . " " Then we are cousins , " cried Arthur , " and I give thee leave to ask ...
... tell me thy name , " he said . " My name is Kilhugh , " replied the prince . " My father is Prince Kilith , and my mother was a sister of the fair Ygerne . " " Then we are cousins , " cried Arthur , " and I give thee leave to ask ...
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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?