Millicent Kendrick; or, The search after happinessJames Clarke & Company, 1862 - 442 pages |
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... child ! " and the impatient horses responded to the coachman's tightening of the reins , and set off full pace down the quiet Radenham market - place . I was alone inside the coach , and I could cry to my heart's content , and think ...
... child ! " and the impatient horses responded to the coachman's tightening of the reins , and set off full pace down the quiet Radenham market - place . I was alone inside the coach , and I could cry to my heart's content , and think ...
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... child " -he spoke in such a fatherly tone I could not be annoyed- " going to church and saying prayers - no , nor even the reading the Bible daily - does not constitute religion - not the religion that will serve you , when that time ...
... child " -he spoke in such a fatherly tone I could not be annoyed- " going to church and saying prayers - no , nor even the reading the Bible daily - does not constitute religion - not the religion that will serve you , when that time ...
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... child , and she possessed extraordinary beauty and great talent . All went on well for several years , and a fair son was born to the brave Baron of Hilbree ; then came trouble - there was war in Germany , and the Baron took leave of ...
... child , and she possessed extraordinary beauty and great talent . All went on well for several years , and a fair son was born to the brave Baron of Hilbree ; then came trouble - there was war in Germany , and the Baron took leave of ...
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... child and his traitorous wife ; and she pretended to rejoice at his return , and when she wept , she said it was with gladness at her dear lord's safe restoration to his own home . But all the while she was plotting treachery ; she knew ...
... child and his traitorous wife ; and she pretended to rejoice at his return , and when she wept , she said it was with gladness at her dear lord's safe restoration to his own home . But all the while she was plotting treachery ; she knew ...
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... child of extreme loveliness ; and the gentle blue eyes , and the flaxen curls , and the half - sad and wistful lines round the tiny mouth , disclosed at a glance her parentage at the first look I knew that she must be Mr. Ryland's daugh ...
... child of extreme loveliness ; and the gentle blue eyes , and the flaxen curls , and the half - sad and wistful lines round the tiny mouth , disclosed at a glance her parentage at the first look I knew that she must be Mr. Ryland's daugh ...
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Page 344 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition , sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Page 127 - And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour.
Page 371 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground ; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust ; in sure and certain hope of resurrection to eternal life...
Page 61 - Fear ye not me? Saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Page 262 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept And sleeping when she died.
Page 324 - EXCEPT the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Page 127 - I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me: I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
Page 114 - Whom call we gay ? That honour has been long The boast of mere pretenders to the name. The innocent are gay — the lark is gay, That dries his feathers, saturate with dew, Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams 495 Of dayspring overshoot his humble nest.
Page 61 - The waves of the sea are mighty, and rage horribly : but yet the Lord, who dwelleth on high, is mightier.