The Wingless VictoryJ. Lane, 1907 - 411 pàgines |
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Pàgina 2
... Borlace was a tiny woman , somewhat like a wild strawberry , for she had the knack of gathering but the daintiest perfection from food and air . The waves of dark hair half hid her blue - veined forehead , above the storm- cloud eyes ...
... Borlace was a tiny woman , somewhat like a wild strawberry , for she had the knack of gathering but the daintiest perfection from food and air . The waves of dark hair half hid her blue - veined forehead , above the storm- cloud eyes ...
Pàgina 3
... Borlace , " he shaved off the whiskers before he proposed . " " It isn't so much , " answered Tryphena , dogmatically , " what a man is that matters ; it's the way you happen to see ' en . Now , I never think of Dr. Borlace but what I ...
... Borlace , " he shaved off the whiskers before he proposed . " " It isn't so much , " answered Tryphena , dogmatically , " what a man is that matters ; it's the way you happen to see ' en . Now , I never think of Dr. Borlace but what I ...
Pàgina 4
... Borlace , who , though his practice lay in Challacombe , was well known in Bossiney , where he had more than once acted as locum tenens . He was therefore liable to the free- spoken criticism of Tryphena , housekeeper and general ...
... Borlace , who , though his practice lay in Challacombe , was well known in Bossiney , where he had more than once acted as locum tenens . He was therefore liable to the free- spoken criticism of Tryphena , housekeeper and general ...
Pàgina 5
... Borlace , taking pleasure in the rustle of her one silk skirt as she climbed the stile , " Archelaus , Tony is coming next week to take me back with him to Challacombe , so you won't have my company much longer . Make the most of me and ...
... Borlace , taking pleasure in the rustle of her one silk skirt as she climbed the stile , " Archelaus , Tony is coming next week to take me back with him to Challacombe , so you won't have my company much longer . Make the most of me and ...
Pàgina 6
... Borlace , for , like many country women , she loved talk that touches the quick of things . " Be her man what he may , " said Tryphena , firmly , " whiskers or no , he's what a wedded wife should stick to . " " Well , " said Wilmot ...
... Borlace , for , like many country women , she loved talk that touches the quick of things . " Be her man what he may , " said Tryphena , firmly , " whiskers or no , he's what a wedded wife should stick to . " " Well , " said Wilmot ...
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Archelaus asked Avis began Borlace Bossiney brought Captain Penrice Challacombe cheeld child clipse Danaë dark Dartmoor Dashpers dear diablerie doctor door Earwaker eyes face fancy father fear feel felt fingers fire flashed gleamed gone granite hair hand head heard heart Heber Hog's pudding HUGH DE SELINCOURT human Johanna knew laughed lead poisoning light lips live look Lucretius maid man's marriage mind Miss Penaluna mist mother never night Onesimus pain passed passion pipes Piran's Ponsworthy Quick Roger Hannaford Roscoff Rouncevell round seemed shadow side soul Stoke Michael stood struggle suddenly talk tell there's things thought to-night told Tony touch Tryphena turned twas Uncle Dickie Uppacott voice waiting walls watched what's wife Wilmot wind window woman women wonderful word Zennor
Passatges populars
Pàgina 195 - There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Pàgina 11 - Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in, the beauty of a thousand stars...
Pàgina 38 - Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." But he knoweth not that the dead are there ; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
Pàgina 218 - Death is a fearful thing. ... to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison...
Pàgina 226 - Are you then, sir, put out of the bill ?" , " Wouldest thou know, son, why I am so joyful ? In good faith I rejoice that I have given the devil a foul fall ; because I have with those lords gone so far that without great shame I can never go back?
Pàgina 85 - And since God occasionally magnifies and illustrates the exceeding riches of His grace by calling one, and another, at the eleventh hour, making them, after being grafted into Christ, bring forth fruit even in old age, making, so to speak, " the barren woman to keep house and be a joyful mother of children," there is no age, and no case hopeless. The words, " Is anything too hard for the Lord ? " are as applicable to the new birth of an old man as to the birth of Isaac by an old woman. So fast as...
Pàgina 408 - ... environment our race has passed into another stage; it is marked now by a passionate desire for the mastery of life — a desire, spiritualized in the highest lives, materialized in the lowest, so to mould environment that the lives to come may be shaped to our will. It is this which accounts for the curious likeness in our to-day with that of the Elizabethans; their spirit was the untamed will, but our will moves in other paths than theirs, paths beaten for our treading by the ages between.