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... thousand spindles at work . How these machines double the filaments and twist them into threads is too deep a matter for you to understand . The great mule - frames stand in pairs all through the length of a very large room ; the ...
... thousand spindles at work . How these machines double the filaments and twist them into threads is too deep a matter for you to understand . The great mule - frames stand in pairs all through the length of a very large room ; the ...
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... thousand machines . But we have not yet got to the root of the matter ; what sets the great shaft in motion ? In a remote part of the factory , in a house all to himself , lives the giant who really does the work ; a fellow with the ...
... thousand machines . But we have not yet got to the root of the matter ; what sets the great shaft in motion ? In a remote part of the factory , in a house all to himself , lives the giant who really does the work ; a fellow with the ...
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... thousand years hath it borne that name , And shall a thousand more . " And hither is young Romilly come , And what may now forbid That he , perhaps for the hundredth time , Shall bound across the Strid ? " He sprang in glee , for what ...
... thousand years hath it borne that name , And shall a thousand more . " And hither is young Romilly come , And what may now forbid That he , perhaps for the hundredth time , Shall bound across the Strid ? " He sprang in glee , for what ...
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... thousand engines employed in this manufacture ; right and left are two great ports , Liver- pool and Hull , which send away the woollen goods and bring in the raw wool ; and there are canals and railways to carry the goods between all ...
... thousand engines employed in this manufacture ; right and left are two great ports , Liver- pool and Hull , which send away the woollen goods and bring in the raw wool ; and there are canals and railways to carry the goods between all ...
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... the night they fled , hotly chased by the men of the Yorkist army , who slew all they came upon . In the morning was a woful reckoning of dead bodies ; nigh forty thousand THE SEA - BOARD . 61 slain - forty thousand 60 YORKSHIRE .
... the night they fled , hotly chased by the men of the Yorkist army , who slew all they came upon . In the morning was a woful reckoning of dead bodies ; nigh forty thousand THE SEA - BOARD . 61 slain - forty thousand 60 YORKSHIRE .
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
20 ENGLISH MILES abbey Avon banks battle beautiful Bedford Black Country border Bristol Bristol Channel built called Castle cathedral Chalfont St Giles chalk Channel Cheshire Chippenham church cliffs coal coal-field coast Cornwall cotton dale Dartmoor deep Derbyshire Derwent Water Devon district Durham east England Estab London estuary Exmoor famous feet Fens flat flows Forest furnace granite green hills houses Humber important towns iron island join Kent king Lancashire land lies Map Questions meadows mills moorland moors mountain mouth Name three towns Norman North Downs old town orchards Ouse palace pleasant port Queen rise river rock Roman round ruins Salisbury Salisbury Plain Saxon seen Severn ships shire side Staffordshire stone streams streets stretch Surrey Sussex Taunton Dean Thames things town stands trees Trent tributary Vale valley villages walls watering-place White Horse Hill Yorkshire
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 201 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Seite 31 - The Lord of Hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
Seite 177 - Or the unseen genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the Studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim, religious light.
Seite 20 - And gleaming and streaming and steaming and beaming, And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing, And flapping and rapping...
Seite 17 - Was ready with her cavern ; Hammar-scar, And the tall steep of Silver-how, sent forth A noise of laughter ; southern Loughrigg heard, And Fairfield answered with a mountain tone ; Helvellyn far into the clear blue sky Carried the lady's voice ; old Skiddaw blew His speaking-trumpet ; back out of the clouds Of Glaramara southward came the voice ; And Kirkstone tossed it from his misty head.
Seite 302 - It is with the landing of Hengest and his war-band at Ebbsfleet on the shores of the Isle of Thanet that English history begins. No spot in Britain can be so sacred to Englishmen as that which first felt the tread of English feet.
Seite 141 - O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...
Seite 73 - MARY, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home Across the sands of Dee '; The western wind was wild and dank with foam, And all alone went she. The western tide crept up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand, And round and round the sand, As far as eye could see. The rolling mist came down and hid the land: And never home came she. ' Oh ! is it weed, or fish, or floating hair, A tress of golden hair...
Seite 3 - The noble Earl was slain : He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long...
Seite 205 - Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.