Queechy, Volume 1G. P. Putnam, 1852 |
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afraid ain't answer arms aunt Lucy aunt Miriam Barby beautiful better Carleton Charlton child colour cousin Cynthy dear Didenhover doctor door Douglass Earl Douglass Elfie Evelyn everything face Fairy father feeling felt fire Fleda laughing Fleda looked Fleda's eyes gave gentle give glad grandfather grandpa grave ground guess half hand happy head heart hope Hugh Hugh's kind kissed kitchen knew lady little Fleda love that dog mind minute Miss Fleda Miss Ringgan Montepoole morning mother never old gentleman Olmney Peter Simple Philetus pleasant pleasure Plumfield pretty Quackenboss Queechy quiet quietly Rossitur seemed Seth shew silent smiling speak stood suppose sure sweet talk tears tell thing Thorn tone took trees turned uncle Orrin uncle Rolf walked wish wood woodcock words Wyandot County young
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Page 168 - there's as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it...
Page 384 - A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
Page 43 - I know each lane, and every alley green, Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood, And every bosky bourn from side to side, My daily walks and ancient neighbourhood...
Page 356 - Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good life; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well ; but in respect that it is private, it is a very vile life. Now in respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me well ; but in respect it is not in the court, it is tedious.
Page 84 - To them was life a simple art Of duties to be done, A game where each man took his part, A race where all must run; A battle whose great scheme and scope They little cared to know, Content, as men at arms, to cope Each with his fronting foe.
Page 158 - No strength of our own, Or goodness we claim ; Yet since we have known The Saviour's great name, In this our strong tower For safety we hide, The Lord is our power, The LORD will provide.
Page 157 - The birds without barn Or storehouse are fed, From them let us learn To trust for our bread : His saints what is fitting Shall ne'er be denied, So long as 'tis written, The Lord will provide.
Page 185 - The dales for shade, the hilles for breathing space, The trembling groves, the christall running by, And, that which all faire workes doth most aggrace, The art which all that wrought appeared in no place.
Page 11 - For he would never thus have flown, And left me twice so doubly lone, Lone as the corse within its shroud, Lone as a solitary cloud, — A single cloud on a sunny day, While all the rest of heaven is clear, A frown upon the atmosphere, That hath no business to appear When skies are blue, and earth is gay.
Page 317 - hem; or else send By their ripe daughters, whom they would commend This way to husbands; and whose baskets bear An emblem of themselves, in plum, or pear.