The Howe Readers by Grades: Book six-[eight], Book 8C. Scribner's Sons, 1912 - Readers |
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... sled , loaded with a thousand pounds of flour , had been standing for a couple of hours , and in the intense cold- it was sixty below zero - the runners had frozen fast to the hard - packed snow . Men offered odds of 13.
... sled , loaded with a thousand pounds of flour , had been standing for a couple of hours , and in the intense cold- it was sixty below zero - the runners had frozen fast to the hard - packed snow . Men offered odds of 13.
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... snow . A majority of the men decided in his favor . Not a man believed him capable of the feat ; now that he looked at the sled itself , the concrete fact , with the regular team of ten dogs curled up in the snow before it , the more ...
... snow . A majority of the men decided in his favor . Not a man believed him capable of the feat ; now that he looked at the sled itself , the concrete fact , with the regular team of ten dogs curled up in the snow before it , the more ...
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... snow in parallel grooves . The sled swayed and trembled , half - started forward . One of his feet slipped , and one man groaned aloud . Then the sled lurched ahead in what appeared a rapid succession of jerks , though it never really ...
... snow in parallel grooves . The sled swayed and trembled , half - started forward . One of his feet slipped , and one man groaned aloud . Then the sled lurched ahead in what appeared a rapid succession of jerks , though it never really ...
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... snow which was almost certain to come . Then came the snow . It seems that Christmas was almost sure to bring it in old times ; at least it is closely associated with it . The excitement increased ; the boxes were unpacked , some of ...
... snow which was almost certain to come . Then came the snow . It seems that Christmas was almost sure to bring it in old times ; at least it is closely associated with it . The excitement increased ; the boxes were unpacked , some of ...
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... snow , often blackened by the shadows of little figures whose noses are pressed to the panes , which grow blurred with their warm breath . Meantime the carriages , piled up out- side and in , are slowly making their way homeward through ...
... snow , often blackened by the shadows of little figures whose noses are pressed to the panes , which grow blurred with their warm breath . Meantime the carriages , piled up out- side and in , are slowly making their way homeward through ...
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Popular passages
Page 161 - I hang like a roof, The mountains its columns be. The triumphal arch through which I march With hurricane, fire, and snow, When the powers of the air are chained to my chair, Is the million-coloured bow; The sphere-fire above its soft colours wove, While the moist earth was laughing below.
Page 106 - The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free ; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.
Page 103 - Did send a dismal sheen : Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around : It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound...
Page 218 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb, which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims ; Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it...
Page 108 - Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it!
Page 193 - Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells ! How it swells ; — how it dwells On the Future ! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells...
Page 145 - ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
Page 193 - Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Page 192 - 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; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
Page 160 - Which an earthquake rocks and swings, An eagle alit one moment may sit In the light of its golden wings. And when sunset may breathe, from the lit...