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... fear , had felt a sympathetic rising in her throat , and some slight terror creeping over her ; when , to the relief of all , even to that of little Franky Wentworth , who had begun to say that ' it was the sort of thing they call a ...
... fear , had felt a sympathetic rising in her throat , and some slight terror creeping over her ; when , to the relief of all , even to that of little Franky Wentworth , who had begun to say that ' it was the sort of thing they call a ...
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Matilda Charlotte Houstoun. was still shaking with the combined effects of fear and the headache induced by the electricity - laden atmosphere , whilst Louisa Graham was amusing herself and , as she hoped , one or two other kindred ...
Matilda Charlotte Houstoun. was still shaking with the combined effects of fear and the headache induced by the electricity - laden atmosphere , whilst Louisa Graham was amusing herself and , as she hoped , one or two other kindred ...
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... fear he could not come . All the arrangements for my aunt devolve on him - she is so very useless , and Florence is but little accustomed to business . However , I can but write and ask him , for on every account I feel , ' she added ...
... fear he could not come . All the arrangements for my aunt devolve on him - she is so very useless , and Florence is but little accustomed to business . However , I can but write and ask him , for on every account I feel , ' she added ...
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... fear , of opportunity , for the treacherous foe within to do its work ! She is so happy now - so very happy that she's smiling in her sleep , and I can almost hear that through her parted lips she's murmuring a soft song of joy , tuned ...
... fear , of opportunity , for the treacherous foe within to do its work ! She is so happy now - so very happy that she's smiling in her sleep , and I can almost hear that through her parted lips she's murmuring a soft song of joy , tuned ...
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... fear will grieve you , and , what is more to me , will perhaps turn your heart against me . ' Still no reply , and Susan , half in anger and half in sorrow for her obstinacy , conti- nued in a bolder fashion . ' Margaret , you have seen ...
... fear will grieve you , and , what is more to me , will perhaps turn your heart against me . ' Still no reply , and Susan , half in anger and half in sorrow for her obstinacy , conti- nued in a bolder fashion . ' Margaret , you have seen ...
Términos y frases comunes
Adolphus alarm amongst Annesley Annesley's Ashington asked awhile began better called CHAPTER child Chrissy's Christina Colonel Aylmer comfort companion course cross-stitch dark darling dear Cousin Chrissy dear Miss Llewellen Dolly drawing-room dread Drummond ears eyes face fancy fear feel felt Florence Harley fool gentle gentleman Gerald girl hand happy Harley's heard heart hope Jephson knew laugh lips listening look Lord George lover Maggie Maggie's major-domo Margaret marriage married Mayford mind Miss Brigham Miss Chrissy Miss Christina's mortification nervous ness never night old maid Olive once Orchard Street pale perhaps poor Portsmouth pre-Raphaelite quiet Raynham Fletcher remarked reply Ryde seemed short silence smile sound speak spirits STAMFORD STREET strange sure Susan tell there's thing Thomson thought tion trembling trust truth turn voice waiting walk whilst whispered wish woman women words yacht young ladies
Pasajes populares
Página 136 - THE warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the year On the earth her deathbed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. Come, months, come away, From November to May, In your saddest array; Follow the bier Of the dead cold year, And like dim shadows watch by her sepulchre. The chill rain is falling, the...
Página 166 - Of the hearts that daily break, Of the tears that hourly fall, Of the many, many troubles of life, That grieve this earthly ball...
Página 42 - Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd by the old To the very verge of the churchyard mould ; Price of many a crime untold ; Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold...
Página 233 - tis slander ; Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Página 93 - Scarce seen, but with fresh bitterness imbued ; And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever : it may be a sound — A tone of music, — summer's eve — or spring, A flower — the wind — the Ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound ; XXIV.
Página 65 - Me and my friends here, this delightful night, That power itself has not one half the might Of gentleness. 'Tis want to all true wealth ; The uneasy madman's force, to the wise health ; Blind downward beating, to the eyes that see ; Noise to persuasion, doubt to certainty...
Página 28 - Nothing ! if they bite and kick? Out with it, Dunciad ! let the secret pass, That secret to each fool, that he's an ass : The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie ?) The queen of Midas slept, and so may I.
Página 198 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Página 93 - But ever and anon of griefs subdued There comes a token like a Scorpion's sting, Scarce seen, but with fresh bitterness imbued ; And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever...
Página 78 - The clodded earth goes up in sweet-breathed flowers ; In music dies poor human speech, And into beauty blow those hearts of ours, When Love is born in each.