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... length found myself in the mouth of a little river , with land on both sides , and a strong current , or tide , running up . I looked on both sides for a proper place to get to shore ; for I was not willing to be driven too high up the ...
... length found myself in the mouth of a little river , with land on both sides , and a strong current , or tide , running up . I looked on both sides for a proper place to get to shore ; for I was not willing to be driven too high up the ...
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... length the little squadron came to the place of peril . Then the Mountjoy took the lead , and went right at the boom . The huge barricade cracked and gave way ; but the shock was such that the Mountjoy rebounded , and stuck in the mud ...
... length the little squadron came to the place of peril . Then the Mountjoy took the lead , and went right at the boom . The huge barricade cracked and gave way ; but the shock was such that the Mountjoy rebounded , and stuck in the mud ...
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... length drew it out upon the bank , with several other particularities that lasted all the first course . A dish of wild - fowl that came after- wards , furnished conversation for the rest of the dinner , which concluded with a late ...
... length drew it out upon the bank , with several other particularities that lasted all the first course . A dish of wild - fowl that came after- wards , furnished conversation for the rest of the dinner , which concluded with a late ...
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... length to his own inventions . But certainly , however improper he might have been for studies of a higher nature , he was perfectly well turned for the occupation of trade and com- merce . mes ' - sen - ger ac - cept ' fre ' - quent ...
... length to his own inventions . But certainly , however improper he might have been for studies of a higher nature , he was perfectly well turned for the occupation of trade and com- merce . mes ' - sen - ger ac - cept ' fre ' - quent ...
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... foreign imprisonment , had at length dragged his wasted limbs homeward , to repose among the scenes of his childhood . 6. I will not attempt to detail the particulars of. 48 GRADUATED READERS - BOOK V. The Deserted Village.
... foreign imprisonment , had at length dragged his wasted limbs homeward , to repose among the scenes of his childhood . 6. I will not attempt to detail the particulars of. 48 GRADUATED READERS - BOOK V. The Deserted Village.
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A. R. Wallace ac-com'-pan-ied ac-com'-plished ac-quaint'-ed adjectives are formed ADVENTURES ap-pre-hen'-sion archery arms arrows bamboo beautiful began Black Knight Borneo char'-ac-ter cloud Colter com-pan'-ion con-clud'-ed con-ver-sa'-tion coun'-ten-ance crocodile de-scend'-ing Dean Swift dis-tin'-guished Doocot Dyaks English ex-pe-di'-tion Excelsior EXERCISES.-1 fear feet fire Flaxman following adjectives following nouns following verbs following words George Somers glacier hand head heard heart hill horse Hubert in'-no-cence king knew labour land length lesson Lochinvar Locksley look morning Mungo Park Name the adjectives Name the nouns Name the verbs never night nouns are formed o'er Oliver Goldsmith passed pegs pendulum Pickwick pre-ced'-ed pre'-cious prefix Prince John raft replied Rhone river round Sam Weller sentences ship shore shot side snow spectacles stood stopped stream thee things thou took traveller tree turned vapour vessel village Wamba Washington Irving William Cowper Wimble Yoho
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Сторінка 216 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Сторінка 189 - His house was known to all the vagrant train. He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast.
Сторінка 215 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street : On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet...
Сторінка 190 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway; And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Сторінка 190 - There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school ; A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew...
Сторінка 191 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declared how much he knew: 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And even the story ran that he could gauge...
Сторінка 110 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Сторінка 206 - A sure and safe one, though thy master miss'd it. Mark but my fall, and that that ruin'd me. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition : By that sin fell the angels...
Сторінка 38 - ROGER'S family, because it consists of sober and staid persons; for as the knight is the best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him. By this means his domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his valet...
Сторінка 172 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace ; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume ; And the bride-maidens whispered, " 'Twere better by far To have match'd our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.