The Rommany StoneLongmans, Green, and Company, 1902 - 330 páginas |
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... dropped , as I've noticed eyes of your bully or cheat always do . ' Out with it , man ! ' I says , thorough gruff . ' Where's that sign ? ' " Mebbe the sign's a tawnie crux , bor ? ' he says , and he pulls out a little box . ( " The ...
... dropped , as I've noticed eyes of your bully or cheat always do . ' Out with it , man ! ' I says , thorough gruff . ' Where's that sign ? ' " Mebbe the sign's a tawnie crux , bor ? ' he says , and he pulls out a little box . ( " The ...
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... dropping to pieces already . Dahlia didn't expect him , had no share in his summoning , would flounce at his coming , belike , and ten to one refuse to ride with him home . " It's a fooil's errand , by Jud ! " he grumbled . " Better ...
... dropping to pieces already . Dahlia didn't expect him , had no share in his summoning , would flounce at his coming , belike , and ten to one refuse to ride with him home . " It's a fooil's errand , by Jud ! " he grumbled . " Better ...
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... dropped openly from him . " Jal to beng , then ! Jal back again then , rot yer ! " he bullied . " I don't arsk yer to come . I don't want yer to come ! Back yer goes , yer fool , else I'll " he cracked his whip and cackled his ...
... dropped openly from him . " Jal to beng , then ! Jal back again then , rot yer ! " he bullied . " I don't arsk yer to come . I don't want yer to come ! Back yer goes , yer fool , else I'll " he cracked his whip and cackled his ...
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... dropped his whip , which was lucky for me as it happened ; though he snapped at the knuckles o ' my hands with his teeth , and tore at ' em with his nails , and his gelding backened aside and away and almost pulled me off . But I knee'd ...
... dropped his whip , which was lucky for me as it happened ; though he snapped at the knuckles o ' my hands with his teeth , and tore at ' em with his nails , and his gelding backened aside and away and almost pulled me off . But I knee'd ...
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... dropping from the path , the pole - marked track across the plateaux of writhen snow , the hidden gulfs where the frozen dead lay gibbering - ah , that nightmare land of the High Alps ! She shuddered at the thought . But Italy ! At ...
... dropping from the path , the pole - marked track across the plateaux of writhen snow , the hidden gulfs where the frozen dead lay gibbering - ah , that nightmare land of the High Alps ! She shuddered at the thought . But Italy ! At ...
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Página 187 - The bird in his cage pursued me into my room; I sat down close to my table, and leaning my head upon my hand, I began to figure to myself the miseries of confinement. I was in a right frame for it, and so I gave full scope to my imagination. I was going to begin with the millions of my fellow-creatures, born to no inheritance but slavery: but finding, however affecting the picture was, that I could not bring it near me, and that the multitude of sad groups in it did but distract me — — I took...
Página 261 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Página 63 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Página 269 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; * if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles, fall.
Página 269 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
Página 195 - Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Página 312 - Let cares like a wild deluge come, And storms of sorrow fall ; May I but safely reach my home, My God, my heaven, my all : 4 There shall I bathe my weary soul, In seas of heavenly rest, And not a wave of trouble roll Across my peaceful breast.
Página 63 - outlandish people, calling themselves Egyptians, using no craft nor feat of merchandise, who have come into this realm and gone from shire to shire and place to place in great company, and used great...
Página 98 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Página 74 - Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.