Madam How and Lady Why; OrMacmillan and Company, 1885 - 321 páginas |
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... guess holds good - that is , to look at other valleys - not merely the valleys round here , but valleys in clay , in chalk , in limestone , in the hard slate rock such as you saw in Devonshire - and see whether my guess does THE GLEN . 23.
... guess holds good - that is , to look at other valleys - not merely the valleys round here , but valleys in clay , in chalk , in limestone , in the hard slate rock such as you saw in Devonshire - and see whether my guess does THE GLEN . 23.
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... rock or earth , may not have been all hollowed out by running water . am sure if you would do this you would find some- thing to amuse you , and something to instruct you , whenever you wish . I know that I do . To me the longest ...
... rock or earth , may not have been all hollowed out by running water . am sure if you would do this you would find some- thing to amuse you , and something to instruct you , whenever you wish . I know that I do . To me the longest ...
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... rock . High above the torrent the road was cut out among the cliffs , and above the road rose more cliffs , with great black cavern mouths , hundreds of feet above our heads , out of each of which poured in foaming waterfalls streams ...
... rock . High above the torrent the road was cut out among the cliffs , and above the road rose more cliffs , with great black cavern mouths , hundreds of feet above our heads , out of each of which poured in foaming waterfalls streams ...
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... rock just where the limestone and the granite joined . " Ah , " I said , now I think I have Madam How's answer . The lid of one of her great steam boilers is rather shaky and cracked just here , because the granite has broken and torn ...
... rock just where the limestone and the granite joined . " Ah , " I said , now I think I have Madam How's answer . The lid of one of her great steam boilers is rather shaky and cracked just here , because the granite has broken and torn ...
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... rock above it had been only a little weaker , it would have been no laughing matter then ; the village might have been shaken to the ground ; the rocks hurled into the torrent ; jets of steam and of hot water , mixed , it may be , with ...
... rock above it had been only a little weaker , it would have been no laughing matter then ; the village might have been shaken to the ground ; the rocks hurled into the torrent ; jets of steam and of hot water , mixed , it may be , with ...
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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.