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... fire to the very top and through this tall , dark funnel the stars may clearly be seen at midday . But the age of these patriarchs is more remarkable even than their size . They are the oldest living things on the earth , some of them ...
... fire to the very top and through this tall , dark funnel the stars may clearly be seen at midday . But the age of these patriarchs is more remarkable even than their size . They are the oldest living things on the earth , some of them ...
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... of the room , where the generous glow of the fire is sufficiently felt without being too intensely hot . The old schoolmaster is stately and dignified , and somewhat severe in aspect . · What boy would dare FIFTH BOOK 35.
... of the room , where the generous glow of the fire is sufficiently felt without being too intensely hot . The old schoolmaster is stately and dignified , and somewhat severe in aspect . · What boy would dare FIFTH BOOK 35.
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... hand that shall wield them well , For he shall be king and lord ! " To Tubal Cain came many a one , As he wrought by his roaring fire , And each one prayed for a strong steel blade , 40 FIFTH BOOK Nathaniel Hawthorne.
... hand that shall wield them well , For he shall be king and lord ! " To Tubal Cain came many a one , As he wrought by his roaring fire , And each one prayed for a strong steel blade , 40 FIFTH BOOK Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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... fire ! And hurrah for the metal true ! " But a sudden change came o'er his heart , Ere the setting of the sun ; And Tubal Cain was filled with pain For the evil he had done . He saw that men , with rage and hate , Made war upon their ...
... fire ! And hurrah for the metal true ! " But a sudden change came o'er his heart , Ere the setting of the sun ; And Tubal Cain was filled with pain For the evil he had done . He saw that men , with rage and hate , Made war upon their ...
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... fire leaped upward from the hearth , laughing and rejoicing at the shrieks of the storm . Grandfather's chair stood in its customary place by the fireside . The bright blaze gleamed upon the fantastic figures of its oaken back , and ...
... fire leaped upward from the hearth , laughing and rejoicing at the shrieks of the storm . Grandfather's chair stood in its customary place by the fireside . The bright blaze gleamed upon the fantastic figures of its oaken back , and ...
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Popular passages
Page 283 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha, for Scotland's King and Law, Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Free-man stand, or Free-man fa', Let him on wi
Page 410 - ... now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure we are met on a great battlefield of that war we have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live...
Page 319 - HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!" he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade!
Page 246 - RING out wild bells to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night ; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go ; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 111 - Half-moon; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river, and the great city called by his name. That his father had once seen them in their old Dutch dresses playing at nine-pins in a hollow of the mountain ; and that he himself had heard, one summer afternoon, the sound of their balls, like distant peals of thunder.
Page 98 - thy mistress leads thee a dog's life of it; but never mind, my lad, whilst I live thou shalt never want a friend to stand by thee!" Wolf would wag his tail, look wistfully in his master's face, and if dogs can feel pity I verily believe he reciprocated the sentiment with all his heart. In a long ramble of the kind on a fine autumnal day, Rip had unconsciously scrambled to one of the highest parts of the Kaatskill mountains.
Page 53 - Will ye look for greener graves ? Hope ye mercy still ? What's the mercy despots feel ? Hear it in that battle peal ! Read it on yon bristling steel ! Ask it, ye who will...
Page 106 - He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn ; but it too was gone. A large rickety wooden building stood in its place, with great gaping windows, some of them broken and mended with old hats and petticoats, and over the door was painted, " The Union Hotel, by Jonathan Doolittle.
Page 107 - Rip was equally at a loss to comprehend the question; when a knowing, selfimportant old gentleman, in a sharp cocked hat, made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle, with one arm akimbo...
Page 111 - Rip's story was soon told, for the whole twenty years had been to him but as one night. The neighbors stared when they heard it; some were seen to wink at each other and put their tongues in their cheeks; and the self-important man in the cocked hat, who, when the alarm was over, had returned to the field, screwed down the corners of his mouth and shook his head — upon which there was a general shaking of the head throughout the assemblage. It was determined, however, to take the opinion of old...