The Pacific Coast First [-fifth] Reader, Volume 4A. L. Bancroft, 1875 - Readers |
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... arms ; he carried nothing that was not absolutely necessary , for even the postage on his literary freight was five dollars a letter . 6. His horse was stripped of all unnecessary weight , too . He wore light shoes or none at all . The ...
... arms ; he carried nothing that was not absolutely necessary , for even the postage on his literary freight was five dollars a letter . 6. His horse was stripped of all unnecessary weight , too . He wore light shoes or none at all . The ...
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... arms , across which he laid the iron with the glass , at his right hand . Turning the rod by rolling it under his left hand , like a lathe , he gave the button another pinch , and then knocked it off . 6. " The instrument he uses looks ...
... arms , across which he laid the iron with the glass , at his right hand . Turning the rod by rolling it under his left hand , like a lathe , he gave the button another pinch , and then knocked it off . 6. " The instrument he uses looks ...
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... arm to pro- tect the body ; anything which defends . G O forth in the Battle of Life , my boy- Go while it is called to - day ; For the years go out , and the years come in , Regardless of those who may lose or win- Of those who work or ...
... arm to pro- tect the body ; anything which defends . G O forth in the Battle of Life , my boy- Go while it is called to - day ; For the years go out , and the years come in , Regardless of those who may lose or win- Of those who work or ...
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... , In the beautiful days of youth ; Put on the helmet , breast - plate and shield , And the sword that the feeblest arm may wield In the cause of Right and Truth . 8. And go to the Battle of Life , my PACIFIC COAST SERIES . 41.
... , In the beautiful days of youth ; Put on the helmet , breast - plate and shield , And the sword that the feeblest arm may wield In the cause of Right and Truth . 8. And go to the Battle of Life , my PACIFIC COAST SERIES . 41.
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... arms , bulging cheeks , and staring eyes , and flying hair , as he spun off into space , and rolled , a help- less heap , in the snow . 4. Step Hen was a comical little fellow about twelve years old , whose droll figure he was very ...
... arms , bulging cheeks , and staring eyes , and flying hair , as he spun off into space , and rolled , a help- less heap , in the snow . 4. Step Hen was a comical little fellow about twelve years old , whose droll figure he was very ...
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Page 200 - I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet birds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun.
Page 75 - So through the night rode Paul Revere ; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm, — A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore...
Page 204 - And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track, And one eye's black intelligence — ever that glance O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance; And the thick heavy spume-flakes, which aye and anon His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on. By Hasselt, Dirck groaned; and cried Joris, "Stay spur! Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her; "We'll remember at Aix...
Page 239 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Page 239 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 238 - This is the ship of pearl, which poets feign Sails the unshadowed main, The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings, In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.
Page 135 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread — You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow-fall in the river — A moment white, then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time nor tide : The hour approaches Tam maun ride ; That hour, o...
Page 155 - Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there...
Page 74 - A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet. That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that night; And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat.
Page 199 - Should I turn upon the true prince ? Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules ; but beware instinct ; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter ; I was a coward on instinct. I shall think the better of myself and thee during my life ; I for a valiant lion, and thou for a true prince.