 I felt that his hand was ice-cold, and that he trembled. On this I grew more uneasy, and called my mother : but now he seized me firmly by the shoulder, and, shaking me violently, said, " I will beat thee if thou art not quiet ! " Then he bound his pocket-handkerchie...  The Improvisatore - Page 11by Hans Christian Andersen - 1869 - 341 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1858 - 860 pages
...to search about. I was so terrified at his strange behaviour that I got up and began to cry. ... 'la the string lost?' I asked. 'We will find it— we will find it,' he replied, in an agitated voice, and continued his search. Meanwhile the only remaining candle, from its continual... | |
 | 1851 - 896 pages
...violently, said, 'I will beat you if you are not quiet!' Then he bound his pocket handkerchief round my arm, and held me fast; but bent himself down to me...called me his dear little Antonio, and whispered, ' You must pray.' ' Is the thing lost?' I asked. ' We will find it ! we will find it !' he answered,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1845 - 602 pages
...violently, said, " I will beat thee if thou art not quiet ! " Then he bound his pocket-handkerchief round my arm, and held me fast, but bent himself down to me...! " he replied ; and began searching again. In the meantime the lesser light was quite burnt out, and the larger one, from its continual agitation, melted... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...violently, said, " I will beat thee if thou art not quiet ! " Then he bound his pocket-handkerchief round my arm, and held me fast, but bent himself down to me...! " he replied ; and began searching again. In the meantime the lesser light was quite burnt out, and the larger one, from its continual agitation, melted... | |
 | American literature - 1845 - 606 pages
...violently, said, " I will beat thee if thou art not quiet !" Then he bound his pocket-handkerchief round my arm, and held me fast, but bent himself down to me...lost," I asked. '"We will find it— we will find it!" hereplied ; and began searching again. In the meantime the lesser light was quite burnt out, and the... | |
 | Hans Christian Andersen - 1845 - 672 pages
...Then he bound his pocket-handkerchief round my arm, and held me fast, but bent himself down to nie the next moment, kissed me vehemently, called me his...it!" he replied, and began searching Again. In the meantime the lesser light was quite burnt out, and the larger one. from its continual agitation, melted... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1845 - 604 pages
...violently, said, " I will bent thee if thou art not quiet!" Then he bound his pocket-handkerchief round my arm, and held me fast, but bent himself down to me the rtext moment, kissed me vehemently, called me his dear little Antonio, and whispered. * Do thou also... | |
 | Emily H. Watson - Children's stories - 1867 - 400 pages
...catacombs, that probably he knew not what he said or did.] Then he bound his handkerchief round my arm, and held me fast, but bent himself down to me...and whispered, ' Do thou also pray to the Madonna.' * * They were Roman Catholics. " ' Is the string lost ? ' I asked. " ' We will find it, we will find... | |
 | Hans Christian Andersen - 1894 - 362 pages
...initial letters of .T'/coof XpidTOf, Oeou ui'of aurqp) Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Re rieemcr. — Author's Note. arm, and held me fast, but .bent himself...and whispered, " Do thou also pray to the Madonna 1 ' "Is the string lost?" I asked. " We will find it — we will find it ! " he replied, and began... | |
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