The Rommany StoneLongmans, Green, and Company, 1902 - 330 páginas |
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... grey . Grey , a russet grey , are the low , long cottages - roof , lichen , wall ; grey are the Needle - mill and the Mill - House , the Church and the Parsonage , the Catholics ' chapel and the Priest- House ; and grey the rubble walls ...
... grey . Grey , a russet grey , are the low , long cottages - roof , lichen , wall ; grey are the Needle - mill and the Mill - House , the Church and the Parsonage , the Catholics ' chapel and the Priest- House ; and grey the rubble walls ...
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... grey old bridge , above the agate - tinted pools and the trout poised pantingly in the shallows ; just as sweethearts did in the days when Cousin Dahlia befooled Matt Scargil there . But to know why Dahlia befooled Matt Scargil and ...
... grey old bridge , above the agate - tinted pools and the trout poised pantingly in the shallows ; just as sweethearts did in the days when Cousin Dahlia befooled Matt Scargil there . But to know why Dahlia befooled Matt Scargil and ...
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... grey eyes cool in the middle of a face that wind and weather kept ruddy , always took his wedlock for granted ; and so did Cousin Dahlia— beautiful , wayward Dahlia — until the big dark eyes and jetty moustachios of Aldo Lee , the royal ...
... grey eyes cool in the middle of a face that wind and weather kept ruddy , always took his wedlock for granted ; and so did Cousin Dahlia— beautiful , wayward Dahlia — until the big dark eyes and jetty moustachios of Aldo Lee , the royal ...
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... art of his hands . And then , how handsome ! For Dahlia life at Whinyat suddenly ceased to be grey . " Happen it all might have been true , " old Matthew said ; " for Rommanies wander into foreign parts , 26 THE ROMMANY STONE.
... art of his hands . And then , how handsome ! For Dahlia life at Whinyat suddenly ceased to be grey . " Happen it all might have been true , " old Matthew said ; " for Rommanies wander into foreign parts , 26 THE ROMMANY STONE.
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... sky was yellowish- white ; amber sparkles flashed up through the trail of mist that marked the run of the river ; mist lay grey on the highway as well , and wooded turnings hid the spot where the yeoman had been left to.
... sky was yellowish- white ; amber sparkles flashed up through the trail of mist that marked the run of the river ; mist lay grey on the highway as well , and wooded turnings hid the spot where the yeoman had been left to.
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afore ain't American arter Aspurt Aunt Prue blood Bone Bosswel Leeke Bow Street Bow Street runners Brazen Serpent constable Coob Cousin cried Cromlech cross crypt curse Dablo Dahlia dale darm Delaware Derby school Derbyshire eneugh eyes face Father Sturt fell fingers Flamenca Flamenker Flash Budger fooil fool Gimme goin gone gorgio grey groaned growled guess guineas gypsy hand head heard horse Jarvey Jeruel juva Kennel Farm kentry Kirk Yetholm Krallis lass laugh look Marse Chilcutt Matt Scargil Matt's mebbe Methody Mill-House muttered never nigger night nowt Okewell parish parlour pateran Pernicus pipe Plastramengoes pretty Quince Rector riding road Rommany runners saddle Shope shouted Smalilou Squire stared Stone Stoniton stood tell there's thet Thet's thought took turned Uncle Abel voice watched What's Whinyat window Woodseats word yeoman
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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...
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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.
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