Foundation Lessons in English, Book 2Macmillan, 1901 |
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... visible early in the morning just before it was hidden by the strong light of the sun . If you have ever seen the pale moon fading before the approaching daylight , try to recall how it looked , and compare it with the bright.
... visible early in the morning just before it was hidden by the strong light of the sun . If you have ever seen the pale moon fading before the approaching daylight , try to recall how it looked , and compare it with the bright.
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... seen a woodpecker and a wheatear , and gathered strange flowers on the heath ; he has hunted a pewit because he thought its wing was broken , till of course it led him into a bog , and very wet he got . But he did not mind it , because ...
... seen a woodpecker and a wheatear , and gathered strange flowers on the heath ; he has hunted a pewit because he thought its wing was broken , till of course it led him into a bog , and very wet he got . But he did not mind it , because ...
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... shapes " the familiar objects about the farmyard had been changed by their covering of snow . Have you ever seen sights of which these transformations remind you ? Of the two following quotations upon the falling snow ,
... shapes " the familiar objects about the farmyard had been changed by their covering of snow . Have you ever seen sights of which these transformations remind you ? Of the two following quotations upon the falling snow ,
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... assertions , using the following verbs : - ran has seen lives appeared climbed have learned owns hang bought is going Select verbs in your reading lesson . LESSON XL STUDY OF A SELECTION The following story describes.
... assertions , using the following verbs : - ran has seen lives appeared climbed have learned owns hang bought is going Select verbs in your reading lesson . LESSON XL STUDY OF A SELECTION The following story describes.
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... seen , surrounded by a low vine - covered porch . Here , during the long summer evenings , the family come together , passing friends join them , and they note and comment upon the crowd , who , having no cool porches to sit upon ...
... seen , surrounded by a low vine - covered porch . Here , during the long summer evenings , the family come together , passing friends join them , and they note and comment upon the crowd , who , having no cool porches to sit upon ...
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adjectives adverbs antonym autumn BAYARD TAYLOR beautiful birds birds playing Bobolink bright BRYANT called CHARLES KINGSLEY cloud color compared comparison COMPOSITION copula Copy the following describe dictation exercises EXACTNESS OF STATEMENT Explain expressing the thought flag flowers following sentences forest form of expression form the plural give groups of words Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Ward Beecher Indians indicate labor lake language letter light live LOCH KATRINE LONGFELLOW look meaning modifies moon morning night NOTE noun paragraph Perry Mason picture Pilgrims play poem poet possessive form predicate pronouns pupils quotation reading lesson river Rosa Bonheur Rose Maylie scene second sentence SENSE TRAINING silver sing smile snow song sound speaking speech spoken stanza stars story stream STUDY OF SELECTIONS sweet synonyms tell tences third sentence topic trees VARIETY OF EXPRESSION verb whispering wind woodchuck woods Write sentences
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Page 159 - Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted came; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear; They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free. The ocean eagle soared From his nest by the white waves' foam; And the rocking pines of the forest roared—...
Page 258 - I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: 10 Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
Page 217 - HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns," he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Page 239 - Father, Thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns. Thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and forthwith rose All these fair ranks of trees.
Page 186 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged ; their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Page 61 - The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings; He sings to the wide world and she to her nest. — In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best?
Page 10 - And some fell upon a rock ; and, as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.
Page 130 - In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright. Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains that like giants stand To sentinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Benvenue Down to the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest feathered o'er His ruined sides and summit hoar, While on the north, through middle air, Ben-an heaved high his forehead bare.
Page 79 - Each soldier eye shall brightly turn To where thy sky-born glories burn, And, as his springing steps advance, Catch war and vengeance from the glance.
Page 129 - The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path, in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle...