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... STOOD CALM AND SILENT . ROUND HIM THRONG THE FATHERS " BOATMAN , DO NOT TARRY ! " · • • George Werveke 165 Gordon Stevenson 177 Delos Nicholson 181 Delos Nicholson 187 Delos Nicholson 191 Delos Nicholson 194 Delos Nicholson 201 Zella A ...
... STOOD CALM AND SILENT . ROUND HIM THRONG THE FATHERS " BOATMAN , DO NOT TARRY ! " · • • George Werveke 165 Gordon Stevenson 177 Delos Nicholson 181 Delos Nicholson 187 Delos Nicholson 191 Delos Nicholson 194 Delos Nicholson 201 Zella A ...
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... stood , and struck Comyn a blow with his dagger . Having done this rash deed , he instantly ran out of the church and called for his horse . Two gentlemen of the country , Lindesay and Kirkpatrick , friends of Bruce , were then in ...
... stood , and struck Comyn a blow with his dagger . Having done this rash deed , he instantly ran out of the church and called for his horse . Two gentlemen of the country , Lindesay and Kirkpatrick , friends of Bruce , were then in ...
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... stood . " King Robert's first idea was to return to Arran after this disappointment ; but his brother Ed- ward refused to go back . He was , as I have told you , a man daring even to rashness . “ I will not leave my native land , " he ...
... stood . " King Robert's first idea was to return to Arran after this disappointment ; but his brother Ed- ward refused to go back . He was , as I have told you , a man daring even to rashness . “ I will not leave my native land , " he ...
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... stood for some time looking at the ford , and thinking how easily the enemy might be kept from passing there , provided it was bravely defended , when he heard at a distance the baying of a hound , which was always coming. THE RISE OF ...
... stood for some time looking at the ford , and thinking how easily the enemy might be kept from passing there , provided it was bravely defended , when he heard at a distance the baying of a hound , which was always coming. THE RISE OF ...
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... stood and listened ; and by and by , as the cry of the hound came nearer , he began to hear a trampling of horses , and the voices of men , and the ringing and clattering of armor , and then he was sure the enemy were coming to the ...
... stood and listened ; and by and by , as the cry of the hound came nearer , he began to hear a trampling of horses , and the voices of men , and the ringing and clattering of armor , and then he was sure the enemy were coming to the ...
Contents
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Joseph Rodman Drake | 128 |
THE DISINHERITED KNIGHT UNSHEATHED HIS SWORD | 302 |
THE DISINHERITED KNIGHT CONFERS WITH THE SQUIRES | 317 |
HALF THE KNIGHTS WERE DISMOUNTED George Werveke | 325 |
Translated from Krummacher | 345 |
A DOG FIGHT George Werveke | 347 |
THIS WAS THE CLOSE George Werveke | 363 |
Latto | 370 |
UNDER THE OAK TREE Gertrude S Spaller | 376 |
George Werveke | 138 |
WITH A CHERRY TREE BETWEEN HIS ANTLERS George Werveke | 147 |
THE EAGLE CARRIED ME AWAY | 165 |
Gordon Stevenson | 177 |
Gordon Stevenson | 211 |
Gordon Stevenson | 225 |
More | 245 |
More | 259 |
SIR WALTER SCOTT Halftone | 264 |
ABBOTSFORD Halftone | 274 |
THE PROMISCUOUS MULTITUDE George Werveke | 283 |
CHILDHOOD Halftone Mary L Spoor | 382 |
WHITHER THOU GOEST I WILL GO Mary L Spoor | 399 |
RUTH Halftone Beatrice Braidwood | 406 |
THE WRITING ON THE WALL Janet L Scott | 410 |
SOHRAB AND RUSTEM | 412 |
SOHRAB AND RUSTUM Matthew Arnold | 430 |
SOHRAB AND RUSTUM Halftone Beatrice Braidwood | 432 |
PERANWISA GIVES SOHRABS CHALLENGE Beatrice Braidwood | 436 |
THE SPEAR RENT THE TOUGH PLATES Beatrice Braidwood | 449 |
RUSTUM SORROWS OVER SOHRAB Beatrice Braidwood | 463 |
THE POET AND THE PEASANT Emile Souvestre | 467 |
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Afrasiab armor arms army Arnold Athelstane beautiful Bella blow Boaz Bois-Guilbert boys brave Bruce buccaneers called Captain Morgan castle champion Clusium cried Disinherited Knight eagles English eyes face father fear fell fight fire ship friends hand Harris hath head heard heart honor horse housemaid's knee Inchcape Rock James Kaoos killed king ladies lance land Lars Porsena lists looked Lord master Matthew Arnold Moab Morgan morning mother Naomi never noble o'er Oxus Persian pirates poem Prince John Raksh river Robert the Bruce rock round Rowena Rustum sand seemed Seistan Shah Nameh shield ship shouts side sleep slogger Sohrab song soon spear spectators stood story sword Tartar tent thee things thou thought told Tom Brown took turned unto victory voice wagons wild words young