My brother's keeper, by Amy Lothrop. By miss WetherellGall & Inglis, 1855 - 300 pages |
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... stood there as before , the hands perhaps holding each other in a somewhat firmer clasp . The doctor replaced the shawl , straightened himself up , and began to talk . " Here's a fine case , " he said ; " but I guess you and I can ...
... stood there as before , the hands perhaps holding each other in a somewhat firmer clasp . The doctor replaced the shawl , straightened himself up , and began to talk . " Here's a fine case , " he said ; " but I guess you and I can ...
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... himself away , and did not go . " I wonder what Dr. Buffem would say to such pro- ceedings ! " he remarked one evening , when he had come softly in during the prayer and had stood watching and listening too proud even to bend his head . "
... himself away , and did not go . " I wonder what Dr. Buffem would say to such pro- ceedings ! " he remarked one evening , when he had come softly in during the prayer and had stood watching and listening too proud even to bend his head . "
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... stood silent and still , while the flickering light of the fire played over her face , and mingled curiously with the feelings that flitted to and fro there . " O Thornton ! " she said ; " would you forget our mother ? " 66 Her hands ...
... stood silent and still , while the flickering light of the fire played over her face , and mingled curiously with the feelings that flitted to and fro there . " O Thornton ! " she said ; " would you forget our mother ? " 66 Her hands ...
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... stood watching it all , -watching the people as they hurried home , the parlour windows lit up , the bright doorways that appeared and vanished , the happy groups gathering at tea . She could see them across the way , those fair shadows ...
... stood watching it all , -watching the people as they hurried home , the parlour windows lit up , the bright doorways that appeared and vanished , the happy groups gathering at tea . She could see them across the way , those fair shadows ...
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... stood watching her ; and the New - year's sun mounted higher and higher in the clear sky ; but " under the sun " there was nothing new . Unless perhaps the hopes and resolutions , and they were but the tying of an old cord many times ...
... stood watching her ; and the New - year's sun mounted higher and higher in the clear sky ; but " under the sun " there was nothing new . Unless perhaps the hopes and resolutions , and they were but the tying of an old cord many times ...
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aint Alie answered apples better breakfast brother Buffem Caleb Williams Captain Pliny child Clerkenwell colour comfort dear doctor door dress eyes face FANNY FERN feel fire flowers FREDERIKA BREMER gave give glad grave half hand head heart Hopper horses Jabin Jerusha knew lady Lady apples laughing leave light little Hulda look Lord Marion Martha Jumps mind Miss Arnet Miss Clinton Miss Clyde Miss Jumps Miss Morsel Miss Rosalie morning mother never night once Penn Raynor pleasant pleasure pretty Quaker Quakeress quiet replied rest Rosalie smiling Rosalie's round silence sister Skiddy sleigh softly sorrow speak spoke stay stood suppose sure sweet talk tell thee there's thing Thornton thou thought to-night told Tom Skiddy took turned up-stairs voice walk War Hawk watched wind window wish words
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Page 270 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Page 128 - Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. The skipper he stood beside the helm...
Page 59 - I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Page 101 - The Lord bless thee, and keep thee : the Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee : the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
Page 270 - And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
Page 102 - What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields or waves or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain? What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain? With thy clear keen joyance Languor cannot be; Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee; Thou lovest, but ne'er knew love's sad satiety.
Page 21 - Great peace have they that love thy law, and nothing shall offend them.
Page 110 - For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Page 113 - For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
Page 235 - hath * no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it : for the glory of God " doth * lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.