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" She was dead. 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 for... "
Dickens - Page 42
by Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1882 - 224 pages
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McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical Reading, with ...

William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...above it alwaysV Those were her words. 2. She was dead. Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell was dead v . Her little bird, a poor slight thing the pressure...heart of its child-mistress was mute and motionless foreverM Where were the traces of her early cares, her sufferings, and fatigues^? All gone v . Sorrow...
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The Old Curiosity Shop ...

Charles Dickens - 1858 - 458 pages
...above it always." Those were her words. She was dead. Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell, was dead. Her little bird — a poor slight thing the pressure...its child-mistress was mute and motionless for ever. Where were the traces of her early cares, her sufferings, and fatigues ? All gone. Sorrow was dead...
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The National Fourth Reader: Containing a Course of Instruction in Elocution ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1859 - 422 pages
...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 ! Where were the traces of her early cares, her sufferings, and fatigues? All gone. Sorrow...
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Advanced Reading Book: Literary and Scientific

Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pages
...sky above it always." Those were her words. She was dead. Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell was dead. Her little bird — a poor, slight thing the pressure...its child-mistress was mute and motionless for ever ! Where were the traces of her early cares, her sufferings, and fatigues 1 All gone. Sorrow was dead,...
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The Old Curiosity Shop, Volume 3

Charles Dickens - 1861 - 318 pages
...above it always." Those were her words. She was dead. Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell, was dead. Her little bird — a poor slight thing the pressure...heart of its child-mistress was mute and motionless forever. Where were the traces of her early cares, her sufferings, and fatigues ? All gone. Sorrow...
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A First Class Reader: Consisting of Extracts, in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...sky above it always." These were her words. She was dead. Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell was dead. Her little bird — a poor slight thing the pressure...heart of its child-mistress was mute and motionless forever. Where were the traces of her early cares, her sufferings, and fatigues? All gone. His was...
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The National Fourth Reader: Containing a Course of Instruction in Elocution ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1861 - 446 pages
...above it always." Those were her words. 2. She was dead. Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell was dead. Her little bird — a poor, slight thing the pressure...heart of its child-mistress was mute and motionless forever ! Where were the traces of her early cares, her sufferings, and fatigues ? All g5ne. Sorrow...
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Many thoughts of many minds. Compiled by H. Southgate

Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...light, and had the sky above it always." She was dead. Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell, was dead. Her little bird — a poor slight thing the pressure...finger would have crushed— was stirring nimbly in it» cage ; and the strong heart of its child-mistress was mute and motionless for ever. Where were...
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The Fifth Reader: For the Use of Public and Private Schools

George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 390 pages
...Example for the 'sJiort' slide, or the "Minor Third" " Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell was dead. Her little bird, — a poor, slight thing the pressure...heart of its child-mistress was mute and motionless forever ! "Sorrow was dead, indeed, in her; but peace and perfect happiness were born, — imaged —...
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 528 pages
...Example for the 'short' slide, or the " Minor Third"' " Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell was dead. Her little bird, — a poor, slight thing the pressure...crushed, — was stirring nimbly in its cage, and the strongheart of its child-mistress was mute and motionless forever I "Sorrow was dead, indeed, in her;...
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