Out of His Head: A Romance ... [Also, Paul Lynde's Sketch Book]Thomas Bailey Aldrich Carleton, 1862 - 226 oldal |
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23. oldal
... hear the sound of a horse's hoofs beating on the dusty road , and then Cecil as if she had leaped out of my brain- dashes up to the garden - gate , on the alert black mare which her father has sent home . In that Out of his Head . 23.
... hear the sound of a horse's hoofs beating on the dusty road , and then Cecil as if she had leaped out of my brain- dashes up to the garden - gate , on the alert black mare which her father has sent home . In that Out of his Head . 23.
35. oldal
... garden . I paced up and down several times under the arbor , unconcernedly ; for the brownie nurse was on guard . My eyes roamed off to the town . I could see the square chimneys of Cecil's house , above the tree - tops , on the other ...
... garden . I paced up and down several times under the arbor , unconcernedly ; for the brownie nurse was on guard . My eyes roamed off to the town . I could see the square chimneys of Cecil's house , above the tree - tops , on the other ...
47. oldal
... Howland to accompany me to New Orleans . We hired a small , furnished cottage , in a retired faubourg of the city , and set up our dii penates ; the household consisting of Cip , a negro gardener ; Out of his Head . 47.
... Howland to accompany me to New Orleans . We hired a small , furnished cottage , in a retired faubourg of the city , and set up our dii penates ; the household consisting of Cip , a negro gardener ; Out of his Head . 47.
48. oldal
... gardener ; Christina , a pretty quadroon girl , who kept our ménage as tidy as a snow - drift ; and Agnes , Christina's child . With the new surroundings , Howland for awhile left the past to bury its dead . But by degrees his former ...
... gardener ; Christina , a pretty quadroon girl , who kept our ménage as tidy as a snow - drift ; and Agnes , Christina's child . With the new surroundings , Howland for awhile left the past to bury its dead . But by degrees his former ...
49. oldal
... of my . cheroot among the honeysuckle vines , which clambered erratically over the portico , shutting me out from the dense moonlight . 3 Three stone steps led from the porch into the garden. Out of his Head . 49 VII AN ARRIVAL.
... of my . cheroot among the honeysuckle vines , which clambered erratically over the portico , shutting me out from the dense moonlight . 3 Three stone steps led from the porch into the garden. Out of his Head . 49 VII AN ARRIVAL.
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
Amaryllis Anglice Antoine's arms Arthur Jocelyn balmoral Beau Ideal beauty Bonton Brandon broke Cecil Roylstone Celeste chair CHAPTER cheroot child cholera Christina Clementina clouds Crandall street cried crowded dark Davie Howe's dead death doctor door dream dress eyes face feet fingers flower garden gentleman Gervase girl glass grew hair hand heard heart Howland Jove Julius Kenneth Kate kissed lady Langdon laugh LES MISERABLES light looked lounge Lynde Markem Mary Ware meerschaum Miss Badeau Miss Hepzibah Molineux MOON-APPARATUS morning never night passed Paul Lynde Pendegrast Père Antoine person Philip Winter Piscataqua river porch pretty woman Red Domino Reuben Walforde rose seemed shadow Sir Godfrey smile stood strange thee things thou thought three-cent pieces Tibbs twilight Venus de Medici village voice walked Walter Brandt watch whispered window woman worshipful John Jocelyn young
Népszerű szakaszok
172. oldal - Half-hidden, like a mermaid in seaweed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled.
34. oldal - ... inherit us : our looks are strange : And we should come like ghosts to trouble joy. Or else the island princes over-bold Have eat our substance, and the minstrel sings Before them of the ten years' war in Troy, And our great deeds, as half-forgotten things.
113. oldal - It is a way of mine to put this and that together ! " " If you intend to betray me — " " O, no, but I don't, or I should not be here — alone with you. I am, as you may allow, not quite a fool.
127. oldal - ... Literary History of England, p. 54. From the slight and more or less conflicting evidence of these funerals we learn but little of the nature of the other world. . We have seen that there is no suggestion of comrades meeting after death, no cry like Lord Thomas's " stay for me " (Child, 73), no Wait for me there ; I shall not fail To meet thee in that hollow vale,1 and the line already quoted, " gum-dream ofgeaf, Codes leoht geceas " (v. 2469), implies no eager or voluntary choice. Nor does that...
176. oldal - Though the sedge is withered from the Lake And no birds sing. Why four kisses — you will say — why four because I wish to restrain the headlong impetuosity of my Muse — she would have fain said "score" without hurting the rhyme — but we must temper the Imagination as the Critics say with Judgment.
160. oldal - Antoine could not pacify her. By and by she ceased to weep, and went about the cottage with a dreary, disconsolate air that cut Antoine to the heart. A long-tailed paroquet, which she had brought with her in the ship, walked solemnly behind her from room to room, mutely pining, it seemed, for those heavy orient airs that used to ruffle its brilliant plumage.