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Pagina 16
... cloud , The bay looked smooth as glass ; Our Dick could manage any boat , As neat as ever was ; And Dolly crowed , ' Me go to sea ! ' The jolly little lass ! 11. " Well , sirs , we went ; a pair of oars , My jacket for a sail ; Just ...
... cloud , The bay looked smooth as glass ; Our Dick could manage any boat , As neat as ever was ; And Dolly crowed , ' Me go to sea ! ' The jolly little lass ! 11. " Well , sirs , we went ; a pair of oars , My jacket for a sail ; Just ...
Pagina 72
... clouds of smoke rising , all red and glowing , as if from the reflection of a great fire . 5. The booming noise was now much nearer and louder ; the sleeping men were roused and sprang to their feet . Just as they did so , a lioness ...
... clouds of smoke rising , all red and glowing , as if from the reflection of a great fire . 5. The booming noise was now much nearer and louder ; the sleeping men were roused and sprang to their feet . Just as they did so , a lioness ...
Pagina 73
... to the light he had seen ; but now , having scrambled to the roof of the waggon , he saw a belt of fire creeping along the hill - side , and rolling dense clouds of smoke . 10. ' Burn de bush to hunt de olephant , RIDING A GIRAFFE . 73.
... to the light he had seen ; but now , having scrambled to the roof of the waggon , he saw a belt of fire creeping along the hill - side , and rolling dense clouds of smoke . 10. ' Burn de bush to hunt de olephant , RIDING A GIRAFFE . 73.
Pagina 75
... clouds , soon hid all else from sight . 15. When day broke , a scene of desolation lay around . All the beautiful flowers , trees , and grass were scorched and burnt up ; and white columns of smoke were everywhere . The waggon was safe ...
... clouds , soon hid all else from sight . 15. When day broke , a scene of desolation lay around . All the beautiful flowers , trees , and grass were scorched and burnt up ; and white columns of smoke were everywhere . The waggon was safe ...
Pagina 83
... cloud on storm - cloud hang dark in the sky , Still courage , boy , courage ! there's strength in thy soul ; Believing and doing bring help from on high . 3. Let joy light thy cheek , then , and COURAGE , BOY , COURAGE ! 83.
... cloud on storm - cloud hang dark in the sky , Still courage , boy , courage ! there's strength in thy soul ; Believing and doing bring help from on high . 3. Let joy light thy cheek , then , and COURAGE , BOY , COURAGE ! 83.
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Androcles animal annual plant answer apple arms beast beautiful Better than gold boat Bou-Akas cadi called captain carry Casabianca child cloud cotton Count of Anjou cried cripple dark Drover earth elephant Examples eyes fall father feet fire fish flax flowers formed friends Frobisher George Summer giraffes give glaciers Glasgow Greenland hand heard heart horse hundred insect iron kind King labour leaf leaves light Literal Meaning little old live look MARTIN FROBISHER Mendip morning mother mountain never night Normandy Normans o'er plant plough poor reads replied round sail Saxons School Scotland Secondary Meaning seen shine ship side silk-worm snow spider steam stone stood Swanage Synonomous Phrases tell thee things thou thought Three Bells throw tinker's dog tree truth Tubal Cain turn waggon wild Willy words written young
Populaire passages
Pagina 150 - Why had they come to wither there, Away from their childhood's land? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth.
Pagina 66 - The boy ! — oh, where was he ? Ask of the winds, that far around With fragments strewed the sea, — With mast, and helm, and pennon fair, That well had borne their part ; But the noblest thing that perished there, Was that young faithful heart ! THOMAS CAMPBELL.
Pagina 123 - Soldier's Dream OUR bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky; And thousands had sunk on the ground over-powered The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die.
Pagina 66 - And shouted but once more aloud, "My father! must I stay?" While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. They...
Pagina 165 - I had now a mind to try how many cobwebs a single spider could furnish, wherefore I destroyed this, and the insect set about another. When I destroyed the other also, its whole stock seemed entirely exhausted, and it could spin no more. The arts it made use of to support itself, now deprived of its great means of subsistence, were indeed surprising. I have seen it roll up its legs like a ball, and lie motionless for hours together, but cautiously watching all the time ; when a fly happened to approach...
Pagina 90 - Upon this, the weights, who had never been accused of light conduct, used all their influence in urging him to proceed; when, as with one consent, the wheels began to turn, the hands began to move, the pendulum began to...
Pagina 65 - Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form.
Pagina 132 - Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. The skipper he stood beside the helm, His pipe was in his mouth, And he watched how the veering flaw did blow The smoke now West, now South. Then up and spake...
Pagina 164 - Now then, in peaceable possession of what was justly its own, it waited three days with the utmost impatience, repairing the breaches of its web, and taking no sustenance that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare, and struggled hard to get loose. The spider gave it leave to entangle itself as much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb. I must own I was greatly surprised when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and in less than a minute...
Pagina 164 - Soon, then, a terrible encounter ensued, in which the invader seemed to have the victory, and the laborious spider was obliged to take refuge in its hole.