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Adam Bede Adam's allays Arthur Donnithorne aunt Bartle Massey better Binton body Broxton Burge canna church Cranage dance dark Dinah Dinah Morris door Eagledale ears eyes face feel fellow felt folks Gawaine give gone Hall Farm hand hard Hayslope head hear heart Hetty Hetty Sorrel Hetty's hope Irwine Irwine's isna knew Lisbeth live Loamshire look marry Martin Poyser Martin the younger Methodist mind morning mother ne'er never night niver pain pale paused perhaps poor preach pretty round seemed Seth Seth's sight smile smock-frock Snowfield sorrow soul speak squire Stoniton stood strong Sunday sure talk tell thee thee't there's thing thought to-day told tone took Totty Treddleston trouble turned voice walked what's woman words young
Popular passages
Page 5 - AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run ; Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise To pay thy morning sacrifice.
Page 29 - And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Page 98 - And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Page 30 - I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
Page 29 - The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Page 152 - Paint us an angel, if you can, with a floating violet robe, and a face paled by the celestial light; paint us yet oftener a Madonna, turning her mild face upward and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory...
Page 26 - How often would I have gathered you as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not !' .... and ye would not !" she repeated, in a tone of pleading reproach, turning her eyes on the people again.
Page 59 - ... what shall we eat, and what shall we drink, and wherewithal shall we be clothed...
Page 447 - What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?
Page 131 - After all, I believe the wisest of us must be beguiled in this way sometimes, and must think both better and worse of people than they deserve. Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious ; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.