 | Uncle Merry - Adventure and adventurers - 1860 - 254 pages
...architectural beauty. The chimney was of the highest and most tapering that had ever been erected, and as Tom shaded his eyes from the slanting rays of the setting sun, and looked in search of his father, his heart sank within him at the appalling sight. The scaffold was... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...verse was heard that cry on the island. When it occurred the third time Canute started from his scat, sket ¡is they supposed the king meant to be. Hut Canute could not stop. He was to-morrow to s irvey the... | |
 | Readers - 1876 - 754 pages
...beauty. The chimney was one of the highest and most tapering that ever had been erected ; and as Tom shaded his eyes from the slanting rays of the setting sun, and looked up in search of his fether, his heart sank within him at the appalling sight. The scaffold was... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - Readers - 1904 - 890 pages
...beauty. The chimney was one of the highest and most tapering that ever had been erected; and as Tom shaded his eyes from the slanting rays of the setting sun, and looked up in search of his father, his heart sank within him at the appalling sight. The scaffold was... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - Readers - 1904 - 896 pages
...beauty. The chimney was one of the highest and most tapering that ever had been erected ; and as Tom shaded his eyes from the slanting rays of the setting sun, and looked up in search of his father, his heart sank within him at the appalling sight. The scaffold was... | |
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James Howard, the father, and a number of other workmen, had been building one of those lofty chimneys which, in our manufacturing towns, almost supply the place of other architectural beauty. The chimney was one of the highest and most tapering that... 