Vashti; or, 'Until death us do part'.Ward, Lock, Bowden & Company, 1883 - 365 էջ |
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... child , and I hope you are glad to see her brother at home once more . Jane is a dear kind link , who should make us ... children , who , by the death of both parents , had been thrown penniless upon the world , and found a temporary ...
... child , and I hope you are glad to see her brother at home once more . Jane is a dear kind link , who should make us ... children , who , by the death of both parents , had been thrown penniless upon the world , and found a temporary ...
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... child Salome , who makes noise and sun- shine enough in an otherwise dark and silent dreary house . Why , children , don't stand bowing at each other , like foreign ministers at court ! Ulpian , you are to be a brother to that child ...
... child Salome , who makes noise and sun- shine enough in an otherwise dark and silent dreary house . Why , children , don't stand bowing at each other , like foreign ministers at court ! Ulpian , you are to be a brother to that child ...
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... child's collar . Give it to her . She lost it yesterday , and has searched the house for it . How came it in that old Bible , which I am sure has not been used for fifteen years ? " Whatever solution of the mystery Salome might have ...
... child's collar . Give it to her . She lost it yesterday , and has searched the house for it . How came it in that old Bible , which I am sure has not been used for fifteen years ? " Whatever solution of the mystery Salome might have ...
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... children he had provided them with one who certainly bore her name , usurped her precious privileges , walked in her ... child - wife flitted up and down in his house and over the serene surface of his life , touching no feeling of his ...
... children he had provided them with one who certainly bore her name , usurped her precious privileges , walked in her ... child - wife flitted up and down in his house and over the serene surface of his life , touching no feeling of his ...
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... child ; it makes no difference who reads the sermon to Kiss me and run out on the lawn . " me . The orphan relinquished chair and book , but there was no relax- ation of her bent brows , and neither warmth nor lingering pressure in the ...
... child ; it makes no difference who reads the sermon to Kiss me and run out on the lawn . " me . The orphan relinquished chair and book , but there was no relax- ation of her bent brows , and neither warmth nor lingering pressure in the ...
Common terms and phrases
Agla Aglaophotis beautiful blue Bochim bombazine cheek child clasped countenance dead dear dear Jane death deodars door Elsie Elsie's escritoire Evelyn eyes face faith feel fingers gaze Gerome girl governess Granville grave gray Grey Grey's hair hand happiness head heard heart heaven hope hour human Jane Shore Jane's Jessie leaned leave letter lips little Muriel live looked marriage MARY JANE HOLMES Miss Dexter Miss Jane mistress morning mother mournful Muriel muslin never night nurse once oriel window orphan painful pale parlor patient peace piano poor prayed quiet Robert Maclean rose Salome Owen Salome's seemed shoulder silent sister Solitude soul Stanley stood tears tell tender Thank things thought to-day took touch trust turned Ulpian utter Vashti voice walked watched window wish woman young
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Էջ 226 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Էջ 283 - But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Էջ 273 - Wommn, .• wilt thou have this Man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou...
Էջ 142 - Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.
Էջ 128 - The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear : for several virtues Have I liked several women ; never any With so full soul, but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil : but you, O you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Էջ 351 - These to their softened hearts should bear The thought of what has been, And speak of one who cannot share The gladness of the scene; Whose part, in all the pomp that fills The circuit of the summer hills, Is— that his grave is green; And deeply would their hearts rejoice To hear again his living voice.
Էջ 25 - Did the Almighty," says Lessing, " holding in his right hand Truth, and in his left Search after Truth, deign to proffer me the one I might prefer ; — in all humility but without hesitation, I should request — Search after Truth.
Էջ 26 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave? All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence — ripen, fall, and cease: Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.
Էջ 257 - Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore Alone upon the threshold of my door Of individual life, I shall command The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand Serenely in the sunshine as before, Without the sense of that which I forbore — Thy touch upon the palm. The widest land Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine With pulses that beat double. What I do And what I dream include thee, as the wine Must taste of its own grapes. And when I sue God for myself,...
Էջ 281 - So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress : but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law ; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.