Chambers's graduated readers, Bücher 6 |
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Seite 8
... half - timid , half - cunning twinkle in their eyes , which reminded me a little of faces I had met with in the more neglected districts of Ireland . 4. In the summer - time , the Laplanders live in canvas tents ; during winter , when ...
... half - timid , half - cunning twinkle in their eyes , which reminded me a little of faces I had met with in the more neglected districts of Ireland . 4. In the summer - time , the Laplanders live in canvas tents ; during winter , when ...
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... The child readily complied , and he went out . 10. She sat there half an hour or more , feeling the place very strange and lonely , for she had prevailed on her grandfather to go to bed , and there A FAVOURITE SCHOOLBOY . 13.
... The child readily complied , and he went out . 10. She sat there half an hour or more , feeling the place very strange and lonely , for she had prevailed on her grandfather to go to bed , and there A FAVOURITE SCHOOLBOY . 13.
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... half dressed , lay stretched upon a bed . He was a very young boy ; quite a little child . His hair still hung in curls about his face , and his eyes were very bright ; but their light was of heaven , not earth . 3. The schoolmaster ...
... half dressed , lay stretched upon a bed . He was a very young boy ; quite a little child . His hair still hung in curls about his face , and his eyes were very bright ; but their light was of heaven , not earth . 3. The schoolmaster ...
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... half dressed , lay stretched upon a bed . ' 3. Make sentences of your own , and use in each one or more of the following words : Relinquish , languid , amputate . BARBARA FRIETCHIE . [ This poem , by the American poet , J. G. Whittier ...
... half dressed , lay stretched upon a bed . ' 3. Make sentences of your own , and use in each one or more of the following words : Relinquish , languid , amputate . BARBARA FRIETCHIE . [ This poem , by the American poet , J. G. Whittier ...
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... half starved . reb ' - el horde , company of soldiers belonging to the South or Con- federate army . They were called ' rebels ' because they seceded from the government of the United States , to form a government of their own . fall ...
... half starved . reb ' - el horde , company of soldiers belonging to the South or Con- federate army . They were called ' rebels ' because they seceded from the government of the United States , to form a government of their own . fall ...
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...