The Jacquerie: A Novel, 1. kötetHarper & brothers, 1842 |
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Adela de Mauvinet adventurers Albert Denyn answered Caillet arms asked band barbican bosom Captal de Buch cast castle chamber companion Count de Mauvinet countenance cried crossbow dare dark door drawbridge eagerly exclaimed eyes fain father fear feelings fierce France gates gazed give Griffith ground hand head heard heart hither honour hope horse hour jennet knew Lady Adela land laugh leave length light lips look Lord Captal Lord of Mauvinet Maillot means mind moat Morne never night once painful passed passion paused peasant peasantry Poictiers poor prisoner ransom replied Albert replied Caillet replied the captal replied the old replied the prior seemed serf side smile soon speak spoke stood sword tell thee Thibalt things thou thought tiltyard tone Touraine turned villain walls whole William Caillet wood words young youth
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193. oldal - The old man laughed with a low, chuckling, well-satisfied laugh ; but the next moment some sort of apprehension seemed to come over him, and he said, after looking down upon the ground for a moment or two in thought. " If we should not succeed, Caillet ? if we should not succeed 1"
103. oldal - ... poetry ; perhaps it is necessary to have known the sensation of the tourist who first steps ashore on a blazing day in the midst of New York's opulent exuberance ; perhaps it is necessary to be able to sacrifice many deeper and subtler overtones of poetry for the sake of sheer brilliance of surface. I do not know, but of one thing I am certain : that Miss Lowell's poetry is a poetry of purely surface appearance. Has anyone ever read her best and most deeply-felt volume, Men, Women and Ghosts,...
28. oldal - ... and when she trembled and would not go, they took her by force; and when the bridegroom strove to rescue her, they struck him with a partisan upon the head, and left him as one dead upon the ground.
29. oldal - he lived, but how long I know not. His bride did not return for several days ; and she was dead ere I passed by again.