St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls, Volume 42, Part 11915 |
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... cried on the day the promises were made . " Why do we not go back and fight ? When I am a man , I will be a soldier and die for Samavia . " " We are of those who must live for Samavia- working day and night , " his father had answered ...
... cried on the day the promises were made . " Why do we not go back and fight ? When I am a man , I will be a soldier and die for Samavia . " " We are of those who must live for Samavia- working day and night , " his father had answered ...
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... CRIED ALLAN MC LANE , THIS IS THE. CHAPTER I A LETTER FROM MOUNT VERNON " THEN they'll b - be m - m - m - married at Dene- wood , after all ! " I stuttered in my excitement , breaking in upon Mrs. Mummer as she finished Bee's letter ...
... CRIED ALLAN MC LANE , THIS IS THE. CHAPTER I A LETTER FROM MOUNT VERNON " THEN they'll b - be m - m - m - married at Dene- wood , after all ! " I stuttered in my excitement , breaking in upon Mrs. Mummer as she finished Bee's letter ...
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... cried , coming into each of our rooms in turn ; " up ! up ! I'll have no slugabeds in this house . The time is all too short for what we have to do ! " And so began another busy day , with no rest nor shirking till all was accom ...
... cried , coming into each of our rooms in turn ; " up ! up ! I'll have no slugabeds in this house . The time is all too short for what we have to do ! " And so began another busy day , with no rest nor shirking till all was accom ...
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... cried Allan McLane ; " and we get no sympathy for it , " he added , as he brought his great bulk down from his horse . I wriggled in Cousin John's arms , wishing to go to Major McLane , who was a particular friend of mine , but Cousin ...
... cried Allan McLane ; " and we get no sympathy for it , " he added , as he brought his great bulk down from his horse . I wriggled in Cousin John's arms , wishing to go to Major McLane , who was a particular friend of mine , but Cousin ...
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... cried . " I feel ashamed to be wishing for the impossible when I have so much . Let us speak no more of it . " And a little later , with a good - night kiss , she left me . CHAPTER III BEE'S WEDDING - CAKE I AWOKE next morning to find ...
... cried . " I feel ashamed to be wishing for the impossible when I have so much . Let us speak no more of it . " And a little later , with a good - night kiss , she left me . CHAPTER III BEE'S WEDDING - CAKE I AWOKE next morning to find ...
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ACROSTIC answered arms ARTHUR RACKHAM asked ball Béarn beautiful Beethoven began Bert Jones Billy Billy Piper bloodroot called Christmas Cousin John cried Cynthia DEAR ST Denewood door Dorothy Dyckman Street Elizabeth exclaimed eyes face father feet foot-ball Fred Floyd friends girls gold badge gyroscope hand head heard heart Helen Indian Jacky Jeanne d'Albret Joyce king knew laughed Lazarus League little boy Little Wolf live looked Loristan Lost Prince Marco Margaret Marjorie Mark Twain mother Mummer never NICHOLAS night once play PUZZLES queer red squirrel Reddy Samavia seemed side Silver Badge smile stood stopped story suddenly sure tell things thought Timothy Tiscoquam told Tommy took tree turned voice wait walked watch wish wonderful wood words young
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Page 50 - And, like fowls in a farmyard when barley is scattering. Out came the children running. All the little boys and girls, With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls, And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls Tripping and skipping, ran merrily after The wonderful music with shouting and laughter.
Page 358 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides...
Page 447 - I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon return,...
Page 407 - He shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand against every man and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen.
Page 447 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was...
Page 276 - For Yesterday is but a Dream, And Tomorrow is only a Vision; But Today well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Page 324 - I AM ALL THAT IS, ALL THAT WAS, AND ALL THAT SHALL BE. NO MORTAL MAN HATH MY VEIL UPLIFTED! " "II. HE IS ONE, SELF-EXISTENT, AND TO THAT ONE ALL THINGS OWE THEIR EXISTENCE.
Page 164 - was striking. He had the curly hair, the aquiline nose, and even the aquiline eye — an eye so eagle-like that a second lid would not have surprised me — of an unusual and dominant nature. His eyebrows were very thick and bushy. His dress was careless, and his general manner one of supreme indifference to surroundings and circumstances.
Page 476 - My dear fellow, please don't think that I am unmindful of all your goodness to me at this time, but I do not know what I would do without you. This is going to be a trying winter for me, for I have got to attend to all my duties and at the same tune keep in shape for the hunt. I do not know what I would do if I did not have you to play with. You do all I like to do, and then your advice is always so clear and direct that I somehow feel that I am imposing on you.
Page 320 - One day, a ten-year-old boy was taken to see Beethoven and this is his memory of the visit: " We mounted five or six stories high, . . . and were announced by a rather dirty-looking servant. In a very desolate room, with papers and articles of dress strewn in all directions, bare walls, a few chests, hardly a chair except the rickety one standing by the piano, there was a party of six or eight people. Beethoven was dressed in a jacket and trousers of long, dark goat's hair. They at once reminded...