Story Hour Readings: Fourth yearAmerican Book Company, 1921 - 367 pages |
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... Wild with terror he hurried on , hiding himself in the woods and under the roots of trees and resting at last in 30 reedy marshes where swans build their nests and wild geese 32 A SHEAF OF LEGENDS.
... Wild with terror he hurried on , hiding himself in the woods and under the roots of trees and resting at last in 30 reedy marshes where swans build their nests and wild geese 32 A SHEAF OF LEGENDS.
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Fourth year Ernest Clark Hartwell. reedy marshes where swans build their nests and wild geese rear their young . For ages and ages nobody knows how many - Iron lay hidden in bogs and forests and lonely caverns . Fear 5 of his raging ...
Fourth year Ernest Clark Hartwell. reedy marshes where swans build their nests and wild geese rear their young . For ages and ages nobody knows how many - Iron lay hidden in bogs and forests and lonely caverns . Fear 5 of his raging ...
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... wild flowers bloom in meadow and glade , the voice of Perdix may still sometimes be heard calling to his mate from among the grass and reeds or amid the leafy underwoods . As for Dædalus , when the people of Athens heard of his 30 ...
... wild flowers bloom in meadow and glade , the voice of Perdix may still sometimes be heard calling to his mate from among the grass and reeds or amid the leafy underwoods . As for Dædalus , when the people of Athens heard of his 30 ...
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... wild bull and the fierce nature of a mountain lion . The people of Crete would not have killed 15 him if they could ; for they thought that the Mighty Folk who lived with Jupiter on the mountain top had sent him among them and that ...
... wild bull and the fierce nature of a mountain lion . The people of Crete would not have killed 15 him if they could ; for they thought that the Mighty Folk who lived with Jupiter on the mountain top had sent him among them and that ...
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... . After the Indian War ended , the stockade was no longer needed , and the settlers had only the wild beasts to contend with , and those constant enemies of the poor in all ages and conditions - PIONEER LIFE IN OHIO 63.
... . After the Indian War ended , the stockade was no longer needed , and the settlers had only the wild beasts to contend with , and those constant enemies of the poor in all ages and conditions - PIONEER LIFE IN OHIO 63.
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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?