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" Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell was dead. Her little bird — a poor slight thing the pressure of a finger would have crushed — was stirring nimbly in its cage ; and the strong heart of its child-mistress was mute and motionless forever. "
Master Humphrey's Clock - Page 178
by Charles Dickens - 1847
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Miscellanies

Stephen Collins - Essays - 1842 - 318 pages
...stirring nimbly in its cage; and the strong heart of its childmistress was mute and motionless forever. "Where were the traces of her early cares, her sufferings,...imaged in her tranquil beauty and profound repose. "Oh! It is hard to take to heart the lesson that such deaths will teach, but let no man reject it,...
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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 4

Christianity - 1842 - 740 pages
...motionless for ever. Where were the traces of her early cares, her sufferings and fatigues ? All gone. Sorrow was dead indeed in her, but peace and perfect happiness were born ; imaged hi her tranquil beauty and profound repose. " And still her former self lay there, unaltered in this...
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The Literary Reader: For Academies and High Schools: Consisting of ...

Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...traces of her early cares, her sufferings and fatigues ? All gone. His was the true death before theii weeping eyes. Sorrow was dead indeed in her, but peace...beauty and profound repose. And still her former self la^ there, unaltered in this change. Yes. The old fireside had smiled upon that same sweet face; it...
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An Offering of Sympathy to the Afflicted: Especially to Bereaved Parents

Francis Parkman - Bereavement - 1854 - 292 pages
...and suffered death. Where were the traces of her early cares, her sufferings, and fatigues ? All gone Sorrow was dead indeed in her, but peace and perfect...imaged in her tranquil beauty and ^profound repose. It is not in this world that Heaven's justice ends. Think what it is, compared with the world to which...
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McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical Reading, with ...

William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...motionless foreverM Where were the traces of her early cares, her sufferings, and fatigues^? All gone v . Sorrow was dead, indeed, in her; but peace and perfect...imaged, in her tranquil beauty and profound repose. 3. And still her former self lay there, unaltered in this change. Yes v ! the old fireside had smiled...
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The National Fourth Reader: Containing a Course of Instruction in Elocution ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1859 - 422 pages
...motionless forever ! Where were the traces of her early cares, her sufferings, and fatigues? All gone. Sorrow was dead, indeed, in her; but peace and perfect happiness were born—imaged—in her tranquil 1 beauty and profound repose. 3. And still her former self lay there,...
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A First Class Reader: Consisting of Extracts, in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...stirring nimbly in its cage ; and the strong heart of its child-mistress was mute and motionless forever. Where were the traces of her early cares, her sufferings,...unaltered in this change. Yes. The old fireside had smiled on that same sweet face ; it had passed like a dream through haunts of misery and care ; at the door...
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The National Fourth Reader: Containing a Course of Instruction in Elocution ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers, American - 1861 - 446 pages
...motionless forever ! Where were the traces of her early cares, her sufferings, and fatigues ? All g5ne. Sorrow was dead, indeed, in her ; but peace and perfect happiness were born — imaged — in her tranquil1 beauty and profound repose. 3. And still her former self lay there, unaltered in this change....
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 528 pages
...motionless forever. 20 Where were the traces of her early cares, her sufferings, and fatigues? All gone. Sorrow was dead indeed in her, but peace and perfect...still her former self lay there, unaltered in this 25 change. Yes. The old fireside had smiled on that same sweet face ; it had passed like a dream through...
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...nimbly in its cage, and the strong heart of its child-mistress was mute and motionless forever I " Sorrow was dead, indeed, in her ; but peace and perfect...imaged — in her tranquil beauty and profound repose. " Waking, she never wandered in her mind but once, and that was at beautiful music, which, she said,...
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