Madam How and Lady Why; OrMacmillan and Company, 1885 - 321 páginas |
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... caves with the waterfalls pouring from their mouths were all on one level , at the top of the granite , and the bottom of the limestone . That was to be ex- pected ; for , as I will explain to you some day , water can make caves easily ...
... caves with the waterfalls pouring from their mouths were all on one level , at the top of the granite , and the bottom of the limestone . That was to be ex- pected ; for , as I will explain to you some day , water can make caves easily ...
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... cave of slag and cinders in the black hill- side rushes a golden river , flowing like honey , and yet so tough that you cannot thrust a stick into it , and so heavy that great stones ( if you throw them on it ) float on the top , and ...
... cave of slag and cinders in the black hill- side rushes a golden river , flowing like honey , and yet so tough that you cannot thrust a stick into it , and so heavy that great stones ( if you throw them on it ) float on the top , and ...
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... air . Sometimes she pours them out at the bottom of the sea , as she did in the north of Ireland and the south - west of Scotland , when she made the Giant's Causeway , and Fingal's Cave in 90 MADAM HOW AND LADY WHY .
... air . Sometimes she pours them out at the bottom of the sea , as she did in the north of Ireland and the south - west of Scotland , when she made the Giant's Causeway , and Fingal's Cave in 90 MADAM HOW AND LADY WHY .
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Charles Kingsley. she made the Giant's Causeway , and Fingal's Cave in Staffa , too , at the bottom of the old chalk ocean , ages and ages since . Sometimes she squirts them out between the layers of rock , or into cracks which the ...
Charles Kingsley. she made the Giant's Causeway , and Fingal's Cave in Staffa , too , at the bottom of the old chalk ocean , ages and ages since . Sometimes she squirts them out between the layers of rock , or into cracks which the ...
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Charles Kingsley. went home trembling , and loaded his muskets , and barricaded his cave , and passed sleepless nights watching for the savages who might come , and who came after all . And so there are certain footprints in geology ...
Charles Kingsley. went home trembling , and loaded his muskets , and barricaded his cave , and passed sleepless nights watching for the savages who might come , and who came after all . And so there are certain footprints in geology ...
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Página 138 - As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.
Página 29 - When he gave to the sea his decree, That the waters should not pass his commandment: When he appointed the foundations of the earth : Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: And I was daily his delight, Rejoicing always before him ; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth ; And my delights were with the sons of men.
Página 160 - I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling ; And here and there a foamy flake Upon me, as I travel, With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel, — And draw them all along, and flow To join the brimming river ; For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Página 69 - There is a path which no fowl knoweth, And which the vulture's eye hath not seen: The lion's whelps have not trodden it, Nor the fierce lion passed by it.