Stepping Stones to Literature: A reader for fifth gradesSilver, Burdett, 1897 - 224 oldal |
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... Antæus , and a million or more of curious little earth - born people , who were called Pygmies . This Giant and these Pygmies being children of the same mother ( that is to say , our good old Grandmother Earth ) , were all brethren and ...
... Antæus , and a million or more of curious little earth - born people , who were called Pygmies . This Giant and these Pygmies being children of the same mother ( that is to say , our good old Grandmother Earth ) , were all brethren and ...
7. oldal
... Antæus presented a very grand spectacle . There he used to stand , a perfect mountain of a man , with his great countenance smiling down upon his little brothers , and his one vast eye ( which was as big as a cart wheel , and placed ...
... Antæus presented a very grand spectacle . There he used to stand , a perfect mountain of a man , with his great countenance smiling down upon his little brothers , and his one vast eye ( which was as big as a cart wheel , and placed ...
8. oldal
... Antæus with as much affection as their tiny hearts could hold . He was always ready to do them any good offices that ... Antæus loved the Pygmies and the Pygmies loved Antæus . The Giant's life being as long as his body was large , while ...
... Antæus with as much affection as their tiny hearts could hold . He was always ready to do them any good offices that ... Antæus loved the Pygmies and the Pygmies loved Antæus . The Giant's life being as long as his body was large , while ...
9. oldal
... Antæus standing among the Pygmies , like the spire of the tallest cathedral that ever was built , while they ran about like ants at his feet ; and to think that , in spite of their difference in size , there were affection and sympathy ...
... Antæus standing among the Pygmies , like the spire of the tallest cathedral that ever was built , while they ran about like ants at his feet ; and to think that , in spite of their difference in size , there were affection and sympathy ...
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... Antæus . He often stretched himself out at full length on the ground , where he looked like the long ridge of a hill ; and it was a good hour's walk , no doubt , for a short - legged Pygmy to journey from head to foot of the Giant . He ...
... Antæus . He often stretched himself out at full length on the ground , where he looked like the long ridge of a hill ; and it was a good hour's walk , no doubt , for a short - legged Pygmy to journey from head to foot of the Giant . He ...
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Antæus arms Asgard Baldur beast beautiful began behold bird blow body Bradamante brave breath Bregenz brethren brother brought called castle coral reef creature cried Czar death dream dwarf ears earth Egypt enchanter eyes face father feet fell Fenris fire foot forever Giant Gluck gods gold Golden River grew hair hand head heard heart Hercules hill hundred island Joseph killed King knew land of Egypt lips live Loki looked mighty mountains mouth Nathaniel Hawthorne never night Norsemen Odin old gentleman Old Oaken Bucket Pharaoh piece Pinabel Pygmies raft reading lesson ring rock round SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH Schwartz ship shore side stone stood strong sword thee Thiassi things Thor thou thought told took Treasure Valley tree turned unto voice wind wonderful wood words
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102. oldal - That moss-covered vessel I hail as a treasure; For often at noon, when returned from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield. How ardent I seized it with hands that were glowing! And quick to the white-pebbled bottom it fell; Then soon, with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coolness it rose from the well; The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, arose from the well.
223. oldal - Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, 'Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their lives. From street to street he piped advancing, And step for step they followed dancing...
181. oldal - Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fast, When the wind failed us; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw Laugh as he hailed us. "And as to catch the gale Round veered the flapping sail, Death ! was the helmsman's hail, Death without quarter...
181. oldal - Three weeks we westward bore, And when the storm was o'er, Cloud-like we saw the shore Stretching to lee-ward ; There for my lady's bower Built I the lofty tower, Which, to this very hour, Stands looking sea-ward.
284. oldal - And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words. 9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
223. oldal - To Rat-land home his commentary: Which was, 'At the first shrill notes of the pipe, I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, And putting apples, wondrous ripe, Into a cider-press's gripe: And a moving away of pickle-tub-boards, And a leaving ajar of conserve-cupboards, And a drawing the corks of train-oil-flasks, And a breaking the hoops of butter-casks; And it seemed as if a voice (Sweeter far than by harp or by psaltery Is breathed) called out, Oh rats, rejoice!
229. oldal - They made a decree that lawyers never Should think their records dated duly If, after the day of the month and year, These words did not as well appear, " And so long after what happened here " On the Twenty-second of July, " Thirteen hundred and Seventy-six...
284. oldal - And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him. What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
300. oldal - And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived.
291. oldal - And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh,, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.