Story Hour Readings, Book 7American Book, 1921 |
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... never knew . He died by the wayside , never dreaming that the wealth for which he had sacrificed happiness and life might have been his had he remained at home . - where were they ? " Here is a diamond ! here is a diamond ! Has Ali ...
... never knew . He died by the wayside , never dreaming that the wealth for which he had sacrificed happiness and life might have been his had he remained at home . - where were they ? " Here is a diamond ! here is a diamond ! Has Ali ...
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... never did anyone a favor in his life . The fourth is Rumbleroll , who goes on his head to save his feet . He neither holds it up to the sky like a man , nor stretches it 15 out toward the ground like a brute ; but he goes tumbling about ...
... never did anyone a favor in his life . The fourth is Rumbleroll , who goes on his head to save his feet . He neither holds it up to the sky like a man , nor stretches it 15 out toward the ground like a brute ; but he goes tumbling about ...
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... never been heard in this land . They shall resound from Land's End to Cold Blast Ridge in Ireland , and turn the hearts of youths and maidens cold as stone . Matrons shall grow wan and weakly and 10 many a mother's child shall die of ...
... never been heard in this land . They shall resound from Land's End to Cold Blast Ridge in Ireland , and turn the hearts of youths and maidens cold as stone . Matrons shall grow wan and weakly and 10 many a mother's child shall die of ...
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... never 10 before saw a youth so handsome and dignified as that one who is now sitting astride his horse and waiting outside the door of this hall . " Then cried the king , " Thou didst walk hither to tell me of him ; now hie thee back to ...
... never 10 before saw a youth so handsome and dignified as that one who is now sitting astride his horse and waiting outside the door of this hall . " Then cried the king , " Thou didst walk hither to tell me of him ; now hie thee back to ...
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... never heard of this maiden , Olwen ; I have never heard of her kindred . But I will send messengers to seek her ; only grant them time to find her and return . " IO " To - day is New Year's Day , " answered the prince . 15 " I give them ...
... never heard of this maiden , Olwen ; I have never heard of her kindred . But I will send messengers to seek her ; only grant them time to find her and return . " IO " To - day is New Year's Day , " answered the prince . 15 " I give them ...
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Page 190 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way?" Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 339 - Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?
Page 319 - An hour passed on — the Turk awoke; That bright dream was his last; He woke — to hear his sentries shriek, "To arms! they come! the Greek! the Greek!
Page 341 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
Page 206 - His going forth is from the end of the heaven, And his circuit unto the ends of it : And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Page 331 - WARREN'S ADDRESS AT THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL BY JOHN PIERPONT QTAND! the ground's your own, my braves! ^ Will ye give it up to slaves?
Page 332 - He is an American, who leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.
Page 355 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, • O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Page 409 - The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Page 194 - ANNOUNCED by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farm-house 'at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.