Harry and Lucy concluded: being the last part of Early lessons, Volume 2Baldwin and Cradock, 1837 - Brothers and sisters |
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... present the Picninnies , and the Joblillies , and the Garyulies , and the grand Panjandrum himself , with the little round button at top ; and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can , till the gunpowder ran out at the ...
... present the Picninnies , and the Joblillies , and the Garyulies , and the grand Panjandrum himself , with the little round button at top ; and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can , till the gunpowder ran out at the ...
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... present at the barber's marriage ; but she perfectly well re- membered the Picninnies ; and she knew why she did , because their name was something like piccanini ; and this word had been fixed in her head by a droll anecdote she had ...
... present at the barber's marriage ; but she perfectly well re- membered the Picninnies ; and she knew why she did , because their name was something like piccanini ; and this word had been fixed in her head by a droll anecdote she had ...
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... present , and had got to the Joblillies , Harry , whose attention was not so wholly ab- sorbed , as to have no eyes for outward nature , ex- claimed- * Future commentators will observe , that this alludes to the ancient British adage ...
... present , and had got to the Joblillies , Harry , whose attention was not so wholly ab- sorbed , as to have no eyes for outward nature , ex- claimed- * Future commentators will observe , that this alludes to the ancient British adage ...
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... present , to keep his debtor and creditor ac- counts to himself . " Harry , my dear ! you know those little , tiny sugar - plums , which are no larger than the head of a minnikin pin . " " I think I know the sugar - plums you mean ...
... present , to keep his debtor and creditor ac- counts to himself . " Harry , my dear ! you know those little , tiny sugar - plums , which are no larger than the head of a minnikin pin . " " I think I know the sugar - plums you mean ...
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... present . Some time afterwards , she took notice of an orna- ment on the chimney - piece ; a small basket , which looked as if it were composed of crystals of glass , or of white spar . Miss Watson told her , that it was not made either ...
... present . Some time afterwards , she took notice of an orna- ment on the chimney - piece ; a small basket , which looked as if it were composed of crystals of glass , or of white spar . Miss Watson told her , that it was not made either ...
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Page 323 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 183 - When it is perfectly formed, the shell gapeth open, and the first thing that appeareth is the foresaid lace or string ; next come the legs of the bird hanging out, and as it groweth greater, it openeth the shell by degrees, till at length it is all come forth, and hangeth only by the bill. In short space after it cometh to full maturity, and falleth into the sea...
Page 224 - For two hundred years his definition of a network as "any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections
Page 182 - There is a small island in Lancashir called the Pile of Foulders, wherein are found broken pieces of old and bruised ships, some whereof have been cast thither by shipwracke, and also the trunks and bodies with the branches of old and rotten trees, cast up there likewise; whereon is found a certain spume or froth that in time breedeth...
Page 12 - So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf, to make an apple-pie ; and at the same time a great she-bear coming up the street, pops its head into the shop.
Page 10 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...
Page 183 - Pie-Annet, which the people of Lancashire call by no other name than a tree goose, which place aforesaid, and all those parts adjoining, do so much abound therewith, that one of the best is bought for threepence. For the truth hereof, if any doubt, may it please them to repair unto me, and I shall satisfie them by the testimonie of good witnesses*.
Page 146 - And well, with ready hand and heart, Each task of toilsome duty taking, Did one dear inmate take her part, The last asleep, the earliest waking.
Page 14 - All work and no play Makes Jack a dull boy All play and no work Makes Jack a mere toy.
Page 148 - Afrite — commanding manufactures to arise, as the rod of the prophet produced water in the desert — affording the means of dispensing with that time and tide which wait for no man; and of sailing without that wind, which defied the commands and threats of Xerxes himself. This potent commander of the elements...