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الصفحة 21 - THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL There was a little girl, And she had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good She was very, very good, And when she was bad she was horrid.
الصفحة 104 - But yesterday, and England might have stood against the world; now none so poor to do her reverence.
الصفحة 68 - Jovemque concilias, tu das epulis accumbere divom, nimborumque facis tempestatumque potentem.' 80 Haec ubi dicta, cavum conversa cuspide montem impulit in latus : ac venti, velut agmine facto, qua data porta, ruunt et terras turbine perflant...
الصفحة 219 - I was very tired, I fell asleep in the armchair in her room. When I awoke I looked out of the window, and as the storm had ceased I came downstairs with the intention of going to bed; but I first desired to assure myself that you had bolted the door, and it was at that moment that this gentleman placed his hand on my shoulder and informed me that I was under arrest. And, I assure you, he has given me a good fright — " "You lie!" coarsely interrupted M. Tricamp. "You were just going out when my...
الصفحة v - ... heat of pursuit, had completely lost our way. Hans being the most experienced of the two, I blindly abandoned myself to his instinct and guidance. After a while, however, it struck me we were actually retracing our steps to Omatako, and I told him so; but he only laughed at my apprehensions. Still, the more I considered the matter, the more I became convinced that we were pursuing a wrong course. In order, therefore, to split the difference, I proposed to Hans that if in about an hour he did...
الصفحة 230 - Court, then addressed the Court as follows: May it please the Court: I...
الصفحة 115 - On her head she wears a low, wide polus, with a hole for the meniscus. Her hair is parted in the middle and brought down over her shoulders in braids. The wings terminate in curious whorls just above the level of the knees. A small fragment of a similar antefix was found at Ardea (Acropolis, No.
الصفحة 246 - I have brought my farm to a high state of fertility, hardened my hands, strengthened my muscles, cured my indigestion, and benefited every member of my family, and I have never neglected in any way the duties of my profession.
الصفحة 105 - But that she was not. Weary of his life, Francesco flew to Venice, and embarking, Flung it away in battle with the Turk. Orsini lived ; — and long you might have seen An old man wandering as in "quest of something, Something he could not find, — he knew not what.
الصفحة vii - ... on the outskirts of the town. The purchase, the buying of live stock, the expectations, the setbacks — in a word, the experiences resulting from the enterprise make up a story highly pleasing and amusing — one that will inspire the faint-hearted and that will be useful, as the author suggests, in tempting many back to the soil, prepared for hard work, without which there is no real success. The pen and ink sketches are excellently done. The title of Lyman Abbott's latTHE TEMPLE. est bookf...