Life in Sweden; with Excursions in Norway and Denmark, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1853 - Scandinavia |
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Page 12
... seemed to relish the dose amazingly . Another time , when I asked for soup , I got barley water with one plum swimming in it . solitary looking French What we term soup is , however , called here by the barbarised French 12 LIFE IN SWEDEN .
... seemed to relish the dose amazingly . Another time , when I asked for soup , I got barley water with one plum swimming in it . solitary looking French What we term soup is , however , called here by the barbarised French 12 LIFE IN SWEDEN .
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... seemed to reduce the nobility of Sweden to a dead body — a skeleton ! That it should be so large a class in so scanty a population is not surprising , when every son in a family takes the title , and transmits it again . With a few ...
... seemed to reduce the nobility of Sweden to a dead body — a skeleton ! That it should be so large a class in so scanty a population is not surprising , when every son in a family takes the title , and transmits it again . With a few ...
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... singularly beautiful . The broad leaves of the immense chestnut trees , that on each side bordered the long carriage drive , seemed wrought in gold ; there was no tincture of decay , no sere and yellow leaf . 28 LIFE IN SWEDEN .
... singularly beautiful . The broad leaves of the immense chestnut trees , that on each side bordered the long carriage drive , seemed wrought in gold ; there was no tincture of decay , no sere and yellow leaf . 28 LIFE IN SWEDEN .
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... seemed both the natural colours ; some leaves , or branches , being as bright in green as others were in gold . Its magnificent neighbour seemed carved in gold , and beside it was one with every leaf in the strongly contrasted hue of ...
... seemed both the natural colours ; some leaves , or branches , being as bright in green as others were in gold . Its magnificent neighbour seemed carved in gold , and beside it was one with every leaf in the strongly contrasted hue of ...
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... seemed singularly out of character with the initiatory rite of baptism ; and the glittering and warlike aspect of the church no less so . Deputations from all the corporate bodies came by invitation , wearing their distinctive uniforms ...
... seemed singularly out of character with the initiatory rite of baptism ; and the glittering and warlike aspect of the church no less so . Deputations from all the corporate bodies came by invitation , wearing their distinctive uniforms ...
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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.