Life in Sweden; with Excursions in Norway and Denmark, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1853 - Scandinavia |
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... amused me . He would carry a brick in both hands along the top of the house , and letting it fall down before me , stand and look at it as if con- sidering whether it took up the exact position on the ground which it ought to take ...
... amused me . He would carry a brick in both hands along the top of the house , and letting it fall down before me , stand and look at it as if con- sidering whether it took up the exact position on the ground which it ought to take ...
Page 53
... amusing . In the day time it is pleasant , and in the evening it is beautiful . " And so you are content , " says Grefven ; " it is well even that pleases you . " And I reply , " Yes , with this I am content . " 54 CHAPTER IV . SLEDGES ...
... amusing . In the day time it is pleasant , and in the evening it is beautiful . " And so you are content , " says Grefven ; " it is well even that pleases you . " And I reply , " Yes , with this I am content . " 54 CHAPTER IV . SLEDGES ...
Page 82
... amused the other day with a French writer's laughable description of Swedish cookery , the irony of which one took for com- mendation , until it came out into open and broad ridicule . I brought the book to my patri- otic hostess , who ...
... amused the other day with a French writer's laughable description of Swedish cookery , the irony of which one took for com- mendation , until it came out into open and broad ridicule . I brought the book to my patri- otic hostess , who ...
Page 92
... amusing to you to go among strangers . " I was tempted to answer the dear lady as a poor half - pay Irish Lieutenant , whom I met at a foreign table d'hôte , once answered me , when I asked him a similar question as to his motive in ...
... amusing to you to go among strangers . " I was tempted to answer the dear lady as a poor half - pay Irish Lieutenant , whom I met at a foreign table d'hôte , once answered me , when I asked him a similar question as to his motive in ...
Page 108
... amusing ; and after it was ended , all the housekeep- ing articles were thrown over to the share of the hostess . While we were eating dried fruits at another table , there came a loud knocking at the door 108 LIFE IN SWEDEN .
... amusing ; and after it was ended , all the housekeep- ing articles were thrown over to the share of the hostess . While we were eating dried fruits at another table , there came a loud knocking at the door 108 LIFE IN SWEDEN .
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Page 301 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 336 - For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth; so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.