The North American Miscellany, 2. kötetAlbert Palmer and Company, 1851 |
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14. oldal
... arm that held him in its grasp , just as two of the escort , who had already mounted , were upon his quarters . Never was a horse so quick on his legs as my old charger ; for the first hundred yards it was indeed " touch - and - go ...
... arm that held him in its grasp , just as two of the escort , who had already mounted , were upon his quarters . Never was a horse so quick on his legs as my old charger ; for the first hundred yards it was indeed " touch - and - go ...
20. oldal
... arms of its staggering little brother , for example - into corners . The children sleep at night between the legs of the monsters , who deafen their first cries with their whirr and rattle , and who roar the same tune to them when they ...
... arms of its staggering little brother , for example - into corners . The children sleep at night between the legs of the monsters , who deafen their first cries with their whirr and rattle , and who roar the same tune to them when they ...
29. oldal
... arms , and was therefore for a while in the dark ; but the moon cast a feeble light through a small opening in the top , and by degrees she began to recognize the place . She felt around her , and met with the golden orna- ments on her ...
... arms , and was therefore for a while in the dark ; but the moon cast a feeble light through a small opening in the top , and by degrees she began to recognize the place . She felt around her , and met with the golden orna- ments on her ...
30. oldal
... arm under her . " He pressed his lips to her pale , cold cheek , and as he did so he fancied he felt her breathe ... arms ! Immovable as stone , and as white , they seemed together a group of the statuary which adorned the sepulchre ...
... arm under her . " He pressed his lips to her pale , cold cheek , and as he did so he fancied he felt her breathe ... arms ! Immovable as stone , and as white , they seemed together a group of the statuary which adorned the sepulchre ...
33. oldal
... arms , waltzed and danced to keep themselves warm . Soon after daylight the hammering ceas- ed , and the preparations appeared to be completed ; and shortly afterwards strong bodies of cavalry began to take up their positions in all the ...
... arms , waltzed and danced to keep themselves warm . Soon after daylight the hammering ceas- ed , and the preparations appeared to be completed ; and shortly afterwards strong bodies of cavalry began to take up their positions in all the ...
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5. oldal - A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent ; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage ; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r lady, inclining to threescore ; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff : if that man should be lewdly given, he deceiveth me ; for, Harry, I see virtue in his looks. If, then, the...
396. oldal - No: The world must be peopled. When I said, I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.— Here comes Beatrice : By this day, she's a fair lady : I do spy some marks of love in her.
254. oldal - Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to the peculiar features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end, to which, indeed, all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind.
3. oldal - At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.
1. oldal - ... were deeply visible. He also wore his hair, which was straight and stiff", and separated behind ; and he often had, seemingly, convulsive starts and odd gesticulations, which tended to excite at once surprise and ridicule.
518. oldal - I have read of a fair young German gentleman, who, living, often refused to be pictured, but put off the importunity of his friends' desire, by giving way that after a few days' burial they might send a painter to his vault, and, if they saw cause for it, draw the image of his death unto the life. They did so. and found his face half eaten, and his midriff1 and backbone full of serpents ; and so he stands pictured among his armed ancestors.
1. oldal - Miss Porter told me, that when he was first introduced to her mother, his appearance was very forbidding: he was then lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of the scrofula were deeply visible.
130. oldal - There's not a flower on all the hills: the frost is on the pane: I only wish to live till the snowdrops come again: I wish the snow would melt and the sun come out on high: I long to see a flower so before the day I die.
2. oldal - ... first she told me that I rode too fast, and she could not keep up with me ; and when I rode a little slower, she passed me and complained that I lagged behind. I was not to be made the slave of caprice, and I resolved to begin as I meant to end. I therefore pushed on briskly, till I was fairly out of her sight. The road lay between two hedges, so I was sure she could not miss it, and I contrived that she should soon come up with me. When she did, I observed her to be in tears.
96. oldal - When, packed in one reeking chamber, Man, maid, mother, and little ones lay; While the rain pattered in on the rotting bride-bed, And the walls let in the day. 'When we lay in the burning fever On the mud of the cold clay floor, Till you parted us all for three months, squire, At the dreary workhouse door.