My brother's keeper, by Amy Lothrop. By miss WetherellGall & Inglis, 1855 - 300 pages |
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... 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 apple when it found itself at liberty to twist ; and turning her head a little she ...
... 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 apple when it found itself at liberty to twist ; and turning her head a little she ...
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... watched in sadness . But she remembered that there had been a time when she was never suffered to watch there long - when a gentle hand would be passed round her waist , and she be drawn away from the window , with , " We may not ...
... watched in sadness . But she remembered that there had been a time when she was never suffered to watch there long - when a gentle hand would be passed round her waist , and she be drawn away from the window , with , " We may not ...
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... watched the fingers that were busy disposing of the presents , and the face that bent over them . " I believe she might have escaped my memory if her sweet guardian could have gone with her . But Hulda's presents were to pass through ...
... watched the fingers that were busy disposing of the presents , and the face that bent over them . " I believe she might have escaped my memory if her sweet guardian could have gone with her . But Hulda's presents were to pass through ...
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... watched her - she little thought with what jealous eyes ; and at every instance of her unwavering truth - not only in word , but in that uprightness of heart which pierces through error and fallacy like a sunbeam - he smiled to himself ...
... watched her - she little thought with what jealous eyes ; and at every instance of her unwavering truth - not only in word , but in that uprightness of heart which pierces through error and fallacy like a sunbeam - he smiled to himself ...
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... watched the whole prelimi- naries from the first jingle of the sleigh bells , and having got very warm with anxiety lest the snow bank should prove insurmount able , was now equally cold with standing at her own door ; and she would ...
... watched the whole prelimi- naries from the first jingle of the sleigh bells , and having got very warm with anxiety lest the snow bank should prove insurmount able , was now equally cold with standing at her own door ; and she would ...
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aint Alie answered apples better breakfast brother Buffem Caleb Williams Captain Pliny child colour comfort dear doctor door dress eyes face feel felt fire gave give glad grave half hand head hear heart Hopper horses Jabin Jerusha KERTCH knew knight of Malta lady Lady apples laughing light little Hulda look Lord ma'am Marion 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's round silence sister Skiddy sleep sleigh smile softly sorrow speak spoke stairs stay stood suppose sure sweet talk tell thee there's thing Thornton thou thought to-night told Tom Skiddy took turned voice walk War Hawk watched wind window wish wont words
Popular passages
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.