Our Boys and Girls, Volumes 3-4Oliver Optic Lee and Shepard, 1868 |
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... side of the chimney . | " He feels badly about it , I suppose. in the kitchen , baking her weekly batch of brown bread , the staple article of food in the family , because it was cheaper than white bread . " Aunt , I want to go up in the ...
... side of the chimney . | " He feels badly about it , I suppose. in the kitchen , baking her weekly batch of brown bread , the staple article of food in the family , because it was cheaper than white bread . " Aunt , I want to go up in the ...
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... side , I had taken my seat in the train for Boston , and I made the above remark on hearing the whistle sound , and feeling the jerk which the train for Boston always makes when it starts . " Is we ? " said Gum , with the bad grammar ...
... side , I had taken my seat in the train for Boston , and I made the above remark on hearing the whistle sound , and feeling the jerk which the train for Boston always makes when it starts . " Is we ? " said Gum , with the bad grammar ...
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... side , and devoted himself to her . This was more than the jealous sisters could endure , " I have never heard sweeter singing . Let us have some more music , and do not fail to give us your voice with it . " Rosette declined , for she ...
... side , and devoted himself to her . This was more than the jealous sisters could endure , " I have never heard sweeter singing . Let us have some more music , and do not fail to give us your voice with it . " Rosette declined , for she ...
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... side of Rosette , in spite of the efforts of her sisters to attract his attention . After breakfast , the hunting - party gathered in the court , and a page brought a fine black horse to Rosette ; but he was a very spirited , fiery ...
... side of Rosette , in spite of the efforts of her sisters to attract his attention . After breakfast , the hunting - party gathered in the court , and a page brought a fine black horse to Rosette ; but he was a very spirited , fiery ...
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... side on a fine bay horse , and he and his horse , and his attentions to the stranger princess , at- tracted the attention of all the guests . Oran- gine and Favarola saw and felt it all ; and when they found themselves obliged to accept ...
... side on a fine bay horse , and he and his horse , and his attentions to the stranger princess , at- tracted the attention of all the guests . Oran- gine and Favarola saw and felt it all ; and when they found themselves obliged to accept ...
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Page 396 - Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts. She needs none. There she is; behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill, and there they will remain forever.
Page 44 - Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud? — Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave. "The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around, and together be laid ; And the young and the old, and the low and the high. Shall moulder to dust, and together shall lie.
Page 45 - tis the draught of a breath — From the blossom of health to the paleness of death, From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud : — Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Page 44 - The hand of the king that the sceptre hath borne ; The brow of the priest that the mitre hath worn ; The eye of the sage, and the heart of the brave, Are hidden and lost in the depths of the grave.
Page 76 - DONE? Has he 'COMPLETELY * DONE? He was unparliamentary from the "BEGINNING to the 'END of his speech. There was scarce a 'WORD he uttered that was not a 'VIOLATION of the privileges of the house. But I did not call him to ORDER. 'WHY? Because the limited 'TALENTS of some men render it IMPOSSIBLE for them to be "SEVERE without being «UNPARLIAMENTARY. But before I sit down, I shall show him HOW to be SEVERE and PARLIAMENTARY at the same time.
Page 397 - And, sir, where American Liberty raised its first voice, and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there it still lives, in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit If discord and disunion shall wound...
Page 315 - Those joyous hours are past away ; And many a heart, that then was gay, Within the tomb now darkly dwells, And hears no more those evening bells. And so 'twill be when I am gone ; That tuneful peal will still ring on, While other bards shall walk these dells, And sing your praise...
Page 396 - Sir, let me recur to pleasing recollections ; let me indulge in refreshing remembrance of the past ; let me remind you that, in early times, no States cherished greater harmony, both of principle and feeling, than Massachusetts and South Carolina. Would to God that harmony might again return ! Shoulder to shoulder they went through the Revolution, hand in hand they stood round the administration of Washington, and felt his own great arm lean on them for support.
Page 173 - I call upon you, fathers, by the shades of your ancestors, by the dear ashes which repose in this precious soil, by all you are, and all you hope to be ; resist every...
Page 44 - So the multitude goes — like the flower or the weed That withers away to let others succeed ; So the multitude comes — even those we behold, To repeat every tale that has often been told.