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Æsop army arrow Arthur asked beautiful began black rats blew Boum-boum Brahman Brobdingnag brother Camel clothes Clutch Cock creature cried Crumpetty Tree diadem Diamond Emperor eyes fables face father feel Fimble fire flock Gêlert GLOSSARY gray rats grew guilders Gulliver hand Hawthorne head hear heard heart HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Jackal Jacques Legrand John JONATHAN SWIFT Kind king King Arthur knew lady Lincoln Little Bo Peep lived lobsterbacks Lochinvar look lost Master Cheever Merlin moon mother NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE nest never night Other-Fellow pipe Piper poem poet Quangle Wangle Quee river salmon SELMA LAGERLÖF shears sheep shepherds shout side smile soldiers song stanza stood story STUDY sweet flag sword tell things thou thought Tiger took town turned voice walked wind wonderful words young
Popular passages
Page 181 - And the muttering grew to a grumbling ; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling : And out of the houses the rats came tumbling.
Page 90 - When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room...
Page 53 - The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice, even with joy and singing...
Page 244 - So through the night rode Paul Revere; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm, A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore!
Page 253 - I long woo'd your daughter, my suit you denied ; — Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide — And now am I come, with this lost love of mine, To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine. There are maidens in Scotland more lovely by far, That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar.
Page 242 - A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet. That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that night; And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat.
Page 239 - If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light, — One, if by land, and two, if by sea ; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm.
Page 112 - And, he gave it for his opinion, that, whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Page 184 - From the duty of giving you something for drink, And a matter of money to put in your poke; But as for the guilders, what we spoke Of them, as you very well know, was in joke. Beside, our losses have made us thrifty. A thousand guilders! Come, take fifty!
Page 53 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.