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... stood The ruthless murderer , even as now , — With armed hand and scornful brow . Up ! all who love me ! blow on , blow ! And lay the outlawed felon low ! 2. Final Scott . An explosive force upon the closing of the vowel ; used in ...
... stood The ruthless murderer , even as now , — With armed hand and scornful brow . Up ! all who love me ! blow on , blow ! And lay the outlawed felon low ! 2. Final Scott . An explosive force upon the closing of the vowel ; used in ...
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... stood . " Good wife , " he cried , " come out and see , The skies are as red as blood . " " God save us ! " cried the settler's wife , " The prairie's a - fire , we must run for life ! " The pupil will determine the quality , degree of ...
... stood . " Good wife , " he cried , " come out and see , The skies are as red as blood . " " God save us ! " cried the settler's wife , " The prairie's a - fire , we must run for life ! " The pupil will determine the quality , degree of ...
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... stood listening , And then a broad gladness broke All over her face , and she took my hand , And drew me near and spoke : " The Highlanders ! O ! dinna ye The slogan far awa ? hear The McGregor's ? Ah ! I ken it weel ; It is the ...
... stood listening , And then a broad gladness broke All over her face , and she took my hand , And drew me near and spoke : " The Highlanders ! O ! dinna ye The slogan far awa ? hear The McGregor's ? Ah ! I ken it weel ; It is the ...
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... our men like the voice of God ; And they shouted along the line . And they wept and shook each other's hands , And the women sobbed in a crowd ; And every one knelt down where we stood , And 64 EXERCISES IN ELOCUTION .
... our men like the voice of God ; And they shouted along the line . And they wept and shook each other's hands , And the women sobbed in a crowd ; And every one knelt down where we stood , And 64 EXERCISES IN ELOCUTION .
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Theoretical and Practical Anna Randall Diehl. And every one knelt down where we stood , And we all thanked God aloud . That happy day , when we welcomed them in , Our men put Jessie first ; And the General took her hand ; and cheers From ...
Theoretical and Practical Anna Randall Diehl. And every one knelt down where we stood , And we all thanked God aloud . That happy day , when we welcomed them in , Our men put Jessie first ; And the General took her hand ; and cheers From ...
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Page 3 - Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Page 410 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Page 27 - And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo. there was a great earthquake ; and the sun became black as sackcloth . of hair, and the moon became as blood ; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together ; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
Page 304 - And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band : " Strike till the last armed foe expires ! Strike for your altars and your fires ! Strike for the green graves of your sires, God and your native land...
Page 3 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 125 - T' make that place uz strong uz the rest." So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, That couldn't be split nor bent nor broke,— That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees; The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum...
Page 301 - Each public officer who takes an oath to support the constitution, swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Page 231 - This water His blood that died on the tree; The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need ; Not what we give, but what we share, — For the gift without the giver is bare ; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, — Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Page 68 - O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 41 - But soon he saw the brisk awakening viol, Whose sweet entrancing voice he loved the best...