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... mantel and returned with a flask and two glasses . The quack filled them both and passed one to David . It was the first time in his life that he had ever even smelt an intoxicant . He recoiled a little ; but having committed himself to ...
... mantel and returned with a flask and two glasses . The quack filled them both and passed one to David . It was the first time in his life that he had ever even smelt an intoxicant . He recoiled a little ; but having committed himself to ...
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... Mantel a sort of sardonic humor into which he was always withdrawing him- self . In one of their infrequent conversations the two companions had grown unusually confidential and found themselves drifting a little too near that most ...
... Mantel a sort of sardonic humor into which he was always withdrawing him- self . In one of their infrequent conversations the two companions had grown unusually confidential and found themselves drifting a little too near that most ...
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... Mantel's features , and he said : " We seem to have a violent antipathy to thin ice , Davy , and skate away from it as soon as it begins to crack a little beneath our feet . " " Yes , " said his friend , shrugging his shoulders , " it ...
... Mantel's features , and he said : " We seem to have a violent antipathy to thin ice , Davy , and skate away from it as soon as it begins to crack a little beneath our feet . " " Yes , " said his friend , shrugging his shoulders , " it ...
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... Mantel , on whose face appeared that inexplicable smile behind which he constantly retired . " For , after all , life is nothing but a jest — a grim one , to be sure , but still a jest . The great host who enter- tains us in the ...
... Mantel , on whose face appeared that inexplicable smile behind which he constantly retired . " For , after all , life is nothing but a jest — a grim one , to be sure , but still a jest . The great host who enter- tains us in the ...
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... Mantel , " said David , " your philo- sophy may be all right , provided a man has not done a — provided — provided a man has not com- mitted a - a crime ! I don't care anything about your past in detail ; but unless you have done some ...
... Mantel , " said David , " your philo- sophy may be all right , provided a man has not done a — provided — provided a man has not com- mitted a - a crime ! I don't care anything about your past in detail ; but unless you have done some ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abstrac Aesculapius answered arms asked astonishment awakened beauty began bird bird songs Blessed Islands bosom brizon brook cabin Charles Frederic Goss Charles Major child consciousness Corson countenance cried crowd dark David David rose deep doctor door dream emotions excitement exclaimed eyes face faith feel fell felt footfall forest gazed gilt top glance gypsy hand happy heard heart heaven hope horse hour human voice hunner inner light instant instinct James Whitcomb Riley knew light lips listened live looked lover Mantel marriage Mary Tudor mind moved mysterious nature never night once pain passed passion paused Pepeeta quack Quaker replied rose secret seemed silence smile sorrow soul spirit stood story strange struggle suddenly sweet tell thee thought tion told took tree trembled turned voice woman words wrong young young Quaker youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 381 - But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
Seite 193 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ! it had a dying fall : O ! it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.
Seite 389 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Seite 334 - Pouring day upon our eyes. 2 Still we wait for thine appearing; Life and joy thy beams impart, Chasing all our fears, and cheering Every poor benighted heart...
Seite 381 - Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes...
Seite 381 - Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, "We are delivered to do all these abominations?
Seite 382 - And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the Lord, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not; therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
Seite 395 - I'll not o'erlook the modest flower That made the woods of April bright. INSCRIPTION FOR THE ENTRANCE TO A WOOD STRANGER, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen Enough of all its sorrows, crimes, and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature. The calm shade Shall bring a kindred calm, and the sweet breeze That makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm To thy sick heart.
Seite 17 - It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
Seite 404 - Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.