...crocuses. The servant-girl must also have her flower-pot in the high attic window, and she looks at it the first thing in the morning and the last at night, and feels thankful, in the words of Solomon, that "the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the...

...those on an English sign), they pay he most devout veneration, crossing themselves, and bowing before it, the first thing in the morning, and the last at night. Should even one of the neighbours enter the cottage, he makes his obeisance to the saint, before he...

...alive, and she had prized it so highly that it always had its place in her room, so that she might see it the first thing in the morning and the last at night. After his death, Lady Ashton regarded it with even more zealous care and love, for she averred that,...

...them. Johnny Smith had a rabbit given to him, and at first he could scarcely leave it. 4. He used to go to it the first thing in the morning, and the last...a short time Johnny grew tired of his rabbit, and only went to see it once or twice a day. Very soon he did not go to see it for a whole day. Then he...

...what do you think he saw ? On the wall, at the side of his own little bed, where his eyes could see it the first thing in the morning, and the last at night, hung the picture of the blue-eyed little girl, the dear little girl of long ago, with her sweet rosy...

...of a national affair; when tens of thousands of individuals high and low meditated and brooded upon it, the first thing in the morning and the last at night, until the great event was decided. But the time is past, and many people will say, thank God that it...

...wonder what I should do if I had to live where tnero was no sea? I should miss it so much. I look at it the first thing in the morning and the last at night. It has been for three years a companion to me. The great ocean with its tossing, its sounds of falling...

...a national affair; when tens of thousands of individuals, high and low, meditated and brooded upon it, the first thing in the morning and the last at night, until the great event was decided. . . . In the days of pugilism it was no vain boast to say, that...

...rollicking songster," as C. Kingsley calls the Blackbird, has won my admiration. He sings a jolly song the first thing in the morning and the last at night. He is a model of industry. When this College was founded there were no gardens, and so dull did the first...