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... and physical endowments . His antlers , indeed , are magnificent , branching back to the length of three or four feet ; but his body is poor , and his limbs thick and ungainly ; neither is his THE LAPLANDERS . 9 PAGE.
... and physical endowments . His antlers , indeed , are magnificent , branching back to the length of three or four feet ; but his body is poor , and his limbs thick and ungainly ; neither is his THE LAPLANDERS . 9 PAGE.
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... body , and so flies on the wings of the wind . 10. Every Laplander , however poor , has his dozen or two dozen reindeer ; and the flocks of a Lapp Croesus amount sometimes to two thousand head . As soon as a young lady is born - after ...
... body , and so flies on the wings of the wind . 10. Every Laplander , however poor , has his dozen or two dozen reindeer ; and the flocks of a Lapp Croesus amount sometimes to two thousand head . As soon as a young lady is born - after ...
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... into an enemy's country to conquer or plunder . bier , the carriage or wooden frame for bearing a dead body to the grave . sym ' - bol , a sign or emblem . EXERCISES . - 1 . The Latin prefix ante- or 20 GRADUATED READERS - BOOK VI .
... into an enemy's country to conquer or plunder . bier , the carriage or wooden frame for bearing a dead body to the grave . sym ' - bol , a sign or emblem . EXERCISES . - 1 . The Latin prefix ante- or 20 GRADUATED READERS - BOOK VI .
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... body half doubled up , was being assisted over the ice by Mr Weller , in a very singular and unswanlike manner , when Mr Pickwick most innocently shouted from the opposite bank : ' Sam ! ' ' Sir ? ' ' Here . I want you . ' ' Let go ...
... body half doubled up , was being assisted over the ice by Mr Weller , in a very singular and unswanlike manner , when Mr Pickwick most innocently shouted from the opposite bank : ' Sam ! ' ' Sir ? ' ' Here . I want you . ' ' Let go ...
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... body half wasted away with long expectation and confinement , and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferred . Upon looking nearer , I saw him pale and feverish ; in thirty years the western breeze ...
... body half wasted away with long expectation and confinement , and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferred . Upon looking nearer , I saw him pale and feverish ; in thirty years the western breeze ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Analyse and parse Antonio Bassanio BATTLE OF PLASSEY birds Bob Sawyer brave breath Brutus Cæsar candles carbonic-acid gas char'-ac-ter Charles Dickens Charles II Charles Kingsley child doth earth English EXERCISES.-1 eyes father fear fire flying carriages following words gave give Gratiano Greek prefix guns hand head hear heart heritage hills hold in fee honourable Horatius horses hour in'-no-cence kind king lady Lars Porsena Latin prefix lesson light living looked Lord Lord Lucan man's son inherit MARK ANTONY means mel'-an-chol-y morning Nerissa never night noble oc-ca'-sions oxygen parse the following passed person Pickwick poor Portia prairie dogs Richard Jefferies ring river round Saxon prefix sentences shillings Shylock side sight skates soldier spe'-cies speak tell thee thing thou trees turned Venice Weller wild Winkle wood young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 193 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Seite 230 - twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Seite 133 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Seite 229 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed, — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime. The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Seite 173 - WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread, — • Stitch— stitch— stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the "Song of the Shirt!
Seite 199 - Myself and what is mine to you and yours Is now converted: but now I was the lord Of this fair mansion, master of my servants, Queen o'er myself; and even now, but now, This house, these servants, and this same myself Are yours, my lord. I give them with this ring...
Seite 173 - Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above my head. And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!
Seite 134 - Through the high wood echoing shrill. Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate, Where the great sun begins his state...
Seite 220 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, . Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to misery all he had, a tear: He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
Seite 112 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...