Theme-buildingScott, Foresman, 1920 - 562 pages |
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... trains of artillery and white - topped wagons moved on in long procession through the shallow current and slowly mounted the op- posing bank . Men were there whose names have become historic : Gage , who , twenty years later , saw his ...
... trains of artillery and white - topped wagons moved on in long procession through the shallow current and slowly mounted the op- posing bank . Men were there whose names have become historic : Gage , who , twenty years later , saw his ...
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... train of doings and feelings : ( 1 ) I stood thunderstruck ; ( 2 ) I looked everywhere about the place ; ( 3 ) I ran from that place toward home , terri- fied all the way by a frightened imagination ; ( 4 ) the next morn- ing I couldn't ...
... train of doings and feelings : ( 1 ) I stood thunderstruck ; ( 2 ) I looked everywhere about the place ; ( 3 ) I ran from that place toward home , terri- fied all the way by a frightened imagination ; ( 4 ) the next morn- ing I couldn't ...
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... train wreck ; the fifth and sixth exclaim about the nobility of Bradley's dying words ; the seventh and eighth tell the success of those words of how he could save the lives of a whole train- load of people , though he could not save ...
... train wreck ; the fifth and sixth exclaim about the nobility of Bradley's dying words ; the seventh and eighth tell the success of those words of how he could save the lives of a whole train- load of people , though he could not save ...
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... train ! " No nobler utterance since the world began From lips of saint or martyr ever ran , Electric , through the sympathies of man . Ah me ! how poor and noteless seem to this The sick - bed dramas of self - consciousness , Our ...
... train ! " No nobler utterance since the world began From lips of saint or martyr ever ran , Electric , through the sympathies of man . Ah me ! how poor and noteless seem to this The sick - bed dramas of self - consciousness , Our ...
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... trains in the small hours of the morn- ing . This is the reason why we never see the advertisements being changed . The making of the posters for the cars is an art in itself . It is necessary to have the advertisement striking , but ...
... trains in the small hours of the morn- ing . This is the reason why we never see the advertisements being changed . The making of the posters for the cars is an art in itself . It is necessary to have the advertisement striking , but ...
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Page 7 - I came home to my fortification, not feeling, as we say, the ground I went on, but terrified to the last degree, looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man...
Page 231 - ... remained. The rocks presented a high impenetrable wall over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows of the surrounding forest. Here, then, poor Rip was brought to a stand. He again called and whistled after his dog; he was only answered by the cawing of a flock of idle crows...
Page 112 - I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years.
Page 9 - He told him, that he had early laid it down as a fixed rule to do his best on every occasion, and in every company : to impart whatever he knew in the most forcible language he could put it in...
Page 207 - Peter, because flowers are dear in cold weather? You should find fault with the climate, and not with me. For my part, I'm sure, I wish it was spring all the year round, and that roses grew under our feet!
Page 11 - OF a' the airts the wind can blaw, I dearly like the west, For there the bonnie lassie lives, The lassie I lo'e best: There wild woods grow, and rivers row, And mony a hill between; But, day and night, my fancy's flight Is ever wi
Page 231 - Here, then, poor Rip was brought to a stand. He again called and whistled after his dog; he was only answered by the cawing of a flock of idle crows sporting high in air about a dry tree that overhung a sunny precipice, and who, secure in their elevation, seemed to look down and scoff...
Page 112 - It was utterly out of my power to refuse this appointment, without exposing my character to such censures as would have reflected dishonor upon myself, and given pain to my friends. " This, I am sure, could not, and ought not, to he pleasing to you, and must have lessened me considerably in my own esteem.
Page 7 - It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand.
Page 215 - Commerce had as many pilgrims as religion. All along the shores of the venerable stream lay great fleets of vessels laden with rich merchandise. From the looms of Benares went forth the most delicate silks that adorned the balls of St. James's and of the Petit Trianon; and in the bazaars the muslins of Bengal and the sabres of Oude were mingled with the jewels of Golconda and the shawls of Cashmere.