The Living Age, Volume 109E. Littell & Company, 1871 |
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... wife come in . " — " Herr Burgomeister , " said Axel , spring- ing up , " I don't see what this brandy story has to do with my money . The fellow has stolen it ! " " That is just what I want to find out , " The wife came . She was a ...
... wife come in . " — " Herr Burgomeister , " said Axel , spring- ing up , " I don't see what this brandy story has to do with my money . The fellow has stolen it ! " " That is just what I want to find out , " The wife came . She was a ...
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... wife rushed up to her husband , -for po- lice - laws are not very strict , in our primi- tive Mecklenburg tribunals , — and grasped his arm : " Jochen ! Jochen ! Have you made your wife and children unhappy for- ever ? " " Marik ! Marik ...
... wife rushed up to her husband , -for po- lice - laws are not very strict , in our primi- tive Mecklenburg tribunals , — and grasped his arm : " Jochen ! Jochen ! Have you made your wife and children unhappy for- ever ? " " Marik ! Marik ...
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... wife , the other was the day - laborer , Regel and his wife . The one pair sat close together , in a warm room , and the night was so silent about them that one might well have a desire to open his heart , and found courage to speak the ...
... wife , the other was the day - laborer , Regel and his wife . The one pair sat close together , in a warm room , and the night was so silent about them that one might well have a desire to open his heart , and found courage to speak the ...
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... wife crouched on her knees outside , before the cellar - window , in the fine , cold November rain ; they were not close together , an iron grating divided them . " Juchen , " whispered she , through the broken window - panes , " tell ...
... wife crouched on her knees outside , before the cellar - window , in the fine , cold November rain ; they were not close together , an iron grating divided them . " Juchen , " whispered she , through the broken window - panes , " tell ...
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... wife , apparently persuading her to something ; she resisted , but finally yielded , and came with him towards the manor house . They entered the room . " Herr von Rambow , " said Habermann , " the woman has confessed to me that she ...
... wife , apparently persuading her to something ; she resisted , but finally yielded , and came with him towards the manor house . They entered the room . " Herr von Rambow , " said Habermann , " the woman has confessed to me that she ...
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Page 210 - There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Page 369 - A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora.
Page 451 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours.
Page 64 - In memory of the man but for whom had gone to wrack All that France saved from the fight whence England bore the bell. Go to Paris; rank on rank Search the heroes flung pell-mell On the Louvre, face and flank! You shall look long enough ere you come to Herve Riel.
Page 201 - he said, and pointed toward the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Page 177 - And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Page 63 - Only let me lead the line, Have the biggest ship to steer, Get this Formidable clear, Make the others follow mine, And I lead them, most and least, by a passage I know well...
Page 218 - Before his work be done; but, being done, Let visions of the night or of the day Come, as they will; and many a time they come, Until this earth he walks on seems not earth, This light that strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air But...
Page 326 - And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking: ;"Tis clear...
Page 27 - I'll read, his for his love." XXXIII Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.