Pearls of a Year: Short Stories from "the Xavier", 1888P. J. Kenedy, 1888 - 116 pages |
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... light of heaven - the love of truth ! I hear e'en as I speak the parting bell ; Your God , your faith , —your country . Go , farewell . Mr. Rattler's Story . " WELL , BELLE , " said Miss Ella Sprightly to her cousin , Miss McThusalum ...
... light of heaven - the love of truth ! I hear e'en as I speak the parting bell ; Your God , your faith , —your country . Go , farewell . Mr. Rattler's Story . " WELL , BELLE , " said Miss Ella Sprightly to her cousin , Miss McThusalum ...
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... light from the inner room scarcely reached the group , but a young moon danced upon the broad ocean , which rolled and surged and beat lazily upon the beach not a hundred yards from the house . Piles of sand drifted here and there and ...
... light from the inner room scarcely reached the group , but a young moon danced upon the broad ocean , which rolled and surged and beat lazily upon the beach not a hundred yards from the house . Piles of sand drifted here and there and ...
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... light as it was , across the pony's neck . Urging him then to full speed , I pressed through the grove ; the daylight was nearly spent , and to my horror , I could just distinguish , as we cleared the overhanging trees and came into the ...
... light as it was , across the pony's neck . Urging him then to full speed , I pressed through the grove ; the daylight was nearly spent , and to my horror , I could just distinguish , as we cleared the overhanging trees and came into the ...
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... light by which you can hear it . And now to begin : I had been riding hard one day in the autumn for nearly five or six hours through some of the most tempestuous weather which I ever had the ill - luck to meet . It was just about the ...
... light by which you can hear it . And now to begin : I had been riding hard one day in the autumn for nearly five or six hours through some of the most tempestuous weather which I ever had the ill - luck to meet . It was just about the ...
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... light of a moon struggling among the heavy surge- like clouds , I saw the very face , the face of that man looking in at me through the casement , the eyes distended and the face pressed close to the glass . I started up in bed to ...
... light of a moon struggling among the heavy surge- like clouds , I saw the very face , the face of that man looking in at me through the casement , the eyes distended and the face pressed close to the glass . I started up in bed to ...
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Page 105 - Ye men of Israel, hear these words ; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, (which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know...
Page 31 - West and south there were fields of flax, and orchards and cornfields Spreading afar and unfenced o'er the plain ; and away to the northward Blomidon rose, and the forests old, and aloft on the mountains Sea-fogs pitched their tents, and mists from the mighty Atlantic Looked on the happy valley, but ne'er from their station descended.
Page 105 - I foresaw the Lord always before my face ; for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved: therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad ; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope : because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Page 31 - Over the basement below protected and shaded the doorway. There in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly the sunset Lighted the village street, and gilded the vanes on the chimneys, Matrons and maidens sat in snow-white caps and in kirtles Scarlet and blue and green, with distaffs spinning the golden Flax for the gossiping looms, whose noisy shuttles within doors Mingled their sound with the whir of the wheels and the songs of the maidens...
Page 105 - Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad ; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope : Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life ; thou shall make me full of joy with thy countenance.
Page 31 - Softly the Angelus sounded, and over the roofs of the village Columns of pale blue smoke, like clouds of incense ascending, Rose from a hundred hearths, the homes of peace and contentment. Thus dwelt together in love these simple Acadian farmers, — Dwelt in the love of God and of man.
Page 74 - THE VIRGIN'S CRADLE-HYMN. COPIED FROM A PRINT OF THE VIRGIN, IN A ROMAN CATHOLIC VILLAGE IN GERMANY. DORMI, Jesu ! Mater ridet Quae tam dulcem somnum videt, Dormi, Jesu ! blandule ! Si non dormis, Mater plorat, Inter fila cantans orat, Blande, veni, somnule.
Page 93 - Beyond this point they are a mere elegance, a luxury contrived for the amusement of polished life, and the gratification of that half love of literature, which pervades all ranks in an advanced stage of society, and are read much more for amusement, than with the least hope of deriving instruction from them.
Page 36 - Died on his lips, and their motion revealed what his tongue would have spoken. Vainly he strove to rise ; and Evangeline, kneeling beside him, Kissed his dying lips, and laid his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes ; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement.
Page 23 - He liveth long who liveth well ; All else is being flung away. He liveth longest, who can tell Of true things truly done each day.