George Stanley; or, Life in the woods, ed. [really written] by J.C. Geikie |
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... sometimes , but , if so , he took his revenge on one of us after a time . One day we were play- ing with a rope and pulley which was hooked high up in the rigging . There was a large loop at the one end , and the other , after passing ...
... sometimes , but , if so , he took his revenge on one of us after a time . One day we were play- ing with a rope and pulley which was hooked high up in the rigging . There was a large loop at the one end , and the other , after passing ...
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... sometimes forget . There is far less humanity in some people than one would like to see , even the chance of causing death itself seeming to give them I remember once going in a steamer up the Bay of Fundy , over part of the same ground ...
... sometimes forget . There is far less humanity in some people than one would like to see , even the chance of causing death itself seeming to give them I remember once going in a steamer up the Bay of Fundy , over part of the same ground ...
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... sometimes even two hundred ; and as there are eight feet of ice below the water for every one above , this would make a two hunded feet iceberg more than the third of a mile from the bottom to the top . They are formed on the shores of ...
... sometimes even two hundred ; and as there are eight feet of ice below the water for every one above , this would make a two hunded feet iceberg more than the third of a mile from the bottom to the top . They are formed on the shores of ...
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... sometimes seem all on fire , and streaks and spots of light would follow the ship with every moment's progress . Sometimes , as the water rushed round the stern and up from beneath , they would glitter like a shower of stars or diamonds ...
... sometimes seem all on fire , and streaks and spots of light would follow the ship with every moment's progress . Sometimes , as the water rushed round the stern and up from beneath , they would glitter like a shower of stars or diamonds ...
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... sometimes hardly see the length of the bowsprit before us , and as the sun would be shut out for days together , so that we could not find out our position , it made every one anxious and half afraid . Many ships are lost by being ...
... sometimes hardly see the length of the bowsprit before us , and as the sun would be shut out for days together , so that we could not find out our position , it made every one anxious and half afraid . Many ships are lost by being ...
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8 페이지 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths : their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
168 페이지 - The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day; The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules...
73 페이지 - But high she shoots through air and light, Above all low delay, Where nothing earthly bounds her flight, Nor shadow dims her way.
408 페이지 - Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
215 페이지 - I proceeded. The air was literally filled with pigeons ; the light of noonday was obscured as by an eclipse; the dung fell in spots not unlike melting flakes of snow; and the continued buzz of wings had a tendency to lull my senses to repose.
216 페이지 - The noise which they made, though yet distant, reminded me of a hard gale at sea passing through the rigging of a close-reefed vessel. As the birds arrived and passed over me, I felt a current of air that surprised me.
129 페이지 - Whilst the deer are quietly grazing, the wolves assemble in great numbers, and, forming a crescent, creep slowly towards the herd so as not to alarm them much at first, but when they perceive that they have fairly hemmed in the unsuspecting creatures, and cut off...
210 페이지 - O then to your gardens, ye housewives, repair ! Your walks border up ; sow and plant at your leisure ; The Blue-bird will chaunt from his box such an air, That all your hard toils will seem truly a pleasure.
210 페이지 - WHEN winter's cold tempests and snows are no more, Green meadows and brown furrowed fields reappearing. The fishermen hauling their shad to the shore, And cloud-cleaving geese to the lakes are a-steering; When first the lone butterfly flits on the wing, When red glow the maples, so fresh and so pleasing, O then comes the blue-bird, the herald of spring, And hails with his warblings the charms of the season.
129 페이지 - ... towards the precipice, appearing to know that when the herd is once at full speed it is easily driven over the cliff, the rearmost urging on those that are before. The wolves then descend at their leisure and feast on the mangled carcasses.