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... rose and opened a drawer , and threw down upon the show - case at which they were standing a double handful of these compasses , which at first they supposed were nothing else but gilt watches for children , they were so very cheap ...
... rose and opened a drawer , and threw down upon the show - case at which they were standing a double handful of these compasses , which at first they supposed were nothing else but gilt watches for children , they were so very cheap ...
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... do for you what I could never do ; " and , with a look full of archness , she rose , and , bowing to Lady Di. and Oliver , she held out her hand to Mrs. Proudfit and Frank , and retired with her lady companion . Frank's eye followed.
... do for you what I could never do ; " and , with a look full of archness , she rose , and , bowing to Lady Di. and Oliver , she held out her hand to Mrs. Proudfit and Frank , and retired with her lady companion . Frank's eye followed.
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... rose on her toes and spun round with a velocity which left nothing more to be attempted or described . The curtain fell , and Frank found himself on his feet with the entire audience , whose ecstasy had now attained its point of ...
... rose on her toes and spun round with a velocity which left nothing more to be attempted or described . The curtain fell , and Frank found himself on his feet with the entire audience , whose ecstasy had now attained its point of ...
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... rose , and ran to the curtain to peep out . The saloon was empty . Turning round , and clasping her hands in artistic rapture , she approached toward Oliver , and exclaimed , " O , Ciel ! Mine ! mine ! " It was living a lifetime in an ...
... rose , and ran to the curtain to peep out . The saloon was empty . Turning round , and clasping her hands in artistic rapture , she approached toward Oliver , and exclaimed , " O , Ciel ! Mine ! mine ! " It was living a lifetime in an ...
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... rose and begged the company to do him the honor to drink the toast he was about to offer , in the most exquisite of all cordials art has distilled SUPPER SPEECHES . 39 from the choicest of her sweets 38 MODERN PILGRIMS .
... rose and begged the company to do him the honor to drink the toast he was about to offer , in the most exquisite of all cordials art has distilled SUPPER SPEECHES . 39 from the choicest of her sweets 38 MODERN PILGRIMS .
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Page 80 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Page 101 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 377 - And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
Page 172 - Peter elicited a spring of water for his jailor's baptism in the Mamertine. St. Francis Xavier turned salt water into fresh for five hundred travellers; St. Raymond was transported over the sea on his cloak ; St. Andrew shone brightly in the dark; St. Scholastica gained by her prayers a pouring rain; St. Paul was fed by ravens; and St. Frances saw her guardian angel.
Page 172 - I firmly believe that the relics of the saints are doing innumerable miracles and graces daily, and that it needs only for a Catholic to show devotion to any saint in order to receive special benefits from his intercession. I firmly believe that saints in their life-time have before now raised the dead to life, crossed the sea without vessels, multiplied grain and bread, cured incurable diseases, and superseded the operation of the laws of the universe in a multitude of ways.
Page 389 - Its very atmosphere seems holy, and its scrupulous and excessive cleanness makes all profane dwellings appear dirty by comparison. We were accompanied by a Bishop, Senor Madrid, the same who assisted at the Archbishop's consecration; a good-looking man, young and tall, and very splendidly dressed. His robes were of purple satin, covered with fine point lace, with a large cross of diamonds and amethysts.
Page 211 - And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?
Page 389 - s hand, and feel something human beside me, I could have fancied myself transported into a congregation of evil spirits. Now and then, but very seldom, a suppressed groan was heard, and occasionally the voice of the monk encouraging them by ejaculations, or by short passages from Scripture. Sometimes the organ struck up, and the poor wretches, in a faint voice, tried to join in the Miserere.
Page 172 - Certainly the Catholic Church, from east to west, from north to south, is, according to our conceptions, hung with miracles. The store of relics is inexhaustible; they are multiplied through all lands, and each particle of each has in it at least a dormant, perhaps an energetic virtue of supernatural operation.
Page 172 - Dei, blest medals, the scapular, the cord of St. Francis, all are the medium of divine manifestations and graces. Crucifixes have bowed the head to the suppliant, and Madonnas have bent their eyes upon assembled crowds. St. Januarius's blood liquefies periodically at Naples, and St. Winifred's well is the scene of wonders even in an unbelieving country. Women...