My brother's keeper, by Amy Lothrop. By miss WetherellGall & Inglis, 1855 - 300 pages |
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... standing by the bedside , and wishing very intently that his gesticulations might have an end . 66 Well , what's the matter with the child ? " he said , wheeling suddenly round as if her existence had but just occurred to him . " Out of ...
... standing by the bedside , and wishing very intently that his gesticulations might have an end . 66 Well , what's the matter with the child ? " he said , wheeling suddenly round as if her existence had but just occurred to him . " Out of ...
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... standing up again . " And I suppose I may not even shake hands with you , my Lady Squeamish ? " But the lips that were hastily offered him showed no fear of his , and the hand that rested on his shoulder had no touch but of sisterly ...
... standing up again . " And I suppose I may not even shake hands with you , my Lady Squeamish ? " But the lips that were hastily offered him showed no fear of his , and the hand that rested on his shoulder had no touch but of sisterly ...
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... stand ; and if she went into the closet , Hulda knew she had gone for an apple , and watched with some interest while the apple was made fast to a string , and that again to the mantelpiece . Then she noticed the desperate twists of the ...
... stand ; and if she went into the closet , Hulda knew she had gone for an apple , and watched with some interest while the apple was made fast to a string , and that again to the mantelpiece . Then she noticed the desperate twists of the ...
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... stand to the feverishness . " " But it couldn't make me feverish , " said Hulda , putting in her word with a voice as pale and thin as her face . ' I like it - always . ' " " " Like it , you pickaninny ! You don't know what you like ...
... stand to the feverishness . " " But it couldn't make me feverish , " said Hulda , putting in her word with a voice as pale and thin as her face . ' I like it - always . ' " " " Like it , you pickaninny ! You don't know what you like ...
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... stand it , he said . So now the sooner the quicker , Miss Rosalie . She smells dreadful strong of pickles . ' " " With this forewarning Rosalie felt no surprise that her visitor's salutation kept at the safe distance of a somewhat ...
... stand it , he said . So now the sooner the quicker , Miss Rosalie . She smells dreadful strong of pickles . ' " " With this forewarning Rosalie felt no surprise that her visitor's salutation kept at the safe distance of a somewhat ...
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Page 145 - My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Page 59 - ... eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, Upon them that hope in his mercy ; To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine.
Page 81 - 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 189 - 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 127 - In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse...
Page 135 - Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
Page 145 - For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
Page 81 - And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents : behold I have gained beside them five talents more.
Page 194 - My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Page 164 - Amen ; so let it be : Life from the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality. Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home.