Blackie's comprehensive school series, 4. kiadás |
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5. oldal
... carry passengers from Birmingham to London , but it took three days to reach that city . It left Birmingham only once a week , on every Monday morning , and got back again on Saturday night . We can do this same journey now in six hours ...
... carry passengers from Birmingham to London , but it took three days to reach that city . It left Birmingham only once a week , on every Monday morning , and got back again on Saturday night . We can do this same journey now in six hours ...
6. oldal
... carry luggage . But when they began to go down hill he was beaten on all sides by the shaking boxes and trunks . " Then , " he says , " all the boxes began , as it were , to dance around me ; everything in the basket appeared to be ...
... carry luggage . But when they began to go down hill he was beaten on all sides by the shaking boxes and trunks . " Then , " he says , " all the boxes began , as it were , to dance around me ; everything in the basket appeared to be ...
7. oldal
... carried on their business in the last century . One who made a large fortune , used to carry his own goods on pack - horses from town to town . He was thus absent from home for the greater part of the year , and performed all his ...
... carried on their business in the last century . One who made a large fortune , used to carry his own goods on pack - horses from town to town . He was thus absent from home for the greater part of the year , and performed all his ...
9. oldal
... carried their corn and wool and other articles to market , chiefly on horseback or on the backs of bullocks . Manure was taken to the fields in this Coal was carried on horseback in some parts of the country for the blacksmiths ' forges ...
... carried their corn and wool and other articles to market , chiefly on horseback or on the backs of bullocks . Manure was taken to the fields in this Coal was carried on horseback in some parts of the country for the blacksmiths ' forges ...
11. oldal
... carrying the most minute details in his head , -a power gained by his thorough attention to the matter in hand . 10. Brindley began business for himself in 1742 at Leek , in North Staffordshire . Very soon his name was widely known as a ...
... carrying the most minute details in his head , -a power gained by his thorough attention to the matter in hand . 10. Brindley began business for himself in 1742 at Leek , in North Staffordshire . Very soon his name was widely known as a ...
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246. oldal - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
218. oldal - And I shall be glad to go ; For the world, at best, is a weary place, And my pulse is getting low : But the grave is dark, and the heart will fail In treading its gloomy way ; And it wiles my heart from its dreariness, To see the young so gay.
120. oldal - Came the boys like a flock of sheep, Hailing the snow piled white and deep, Past the woman so old and gray, Hastened the children on their way, Nor offered a helping hand to her, So meek, so timid, afraid to stir Lest the carriage wheels or the horses' feet Should crowd her down on the slippery street.
120. oldal - I'll help you across if you wish to go." Her aged hand on his strong young arm She placed, and so, without hurt or harm, He guided...
218. oldal - Play on, play on ; I am with you there, In the midst of your merry ring ; I can feel the thrill of the daring jump, And the rush of the breathless swing, I hide with you in the fragrant hay, And I whoop the smother'd call, And my feet slip up on the seedy floor, And I care not for the fall.
12. oldal - Little by little," an acorn said, As it slowly sank in its mossy bed, "I am improving every day, Hidden deep in the earth away." Little by little, each day it grew; Little by little, it sipped the dew; Downward it sent out a thread-like root; Up in the air sprung a tiny shoot.
169. oldal - Only in sleep shall I behold that dark eye glancing bright — Only in sleep shall hear again that step so firm and light ; And when I raise my dreaming arm to check or cheer thy speed, Then must I starting wake to feel thou'rt sold, my Arab steed...
170. oldal - If I thought— but no, it cannot be; Thou art so swift, yet ea,sy curbed; so gentle, yet so free : And yet if haply, when thou'rt gone, my lonely heart should yearn, Can the hand which casts thee from it now command thee to return? Return...
242. oldal - Never give up ! there are chances and changes Helping the hopeful a hundred to one, And through the chaos High Wisdom arranges Ever success — if you'll only hope on. Never give up! for the wisest is boldest, Knowing that Providence mingles the cup; And of all maxims the best, as the oldest, Is the true watchword of
171. oldal - ... when last I saw him drink." When last I saw thee drink! — Away ! the fevered dream is o'er! I could not live a day, and know that we should meet no more; They tempted me, my beautiful! for hunger's power is strong — They tempted me, my beautiful! but I have loved too long. Who said that I had given thee up ? Who said that thou wert sold?