The Wingless VictoryJ. Lane, 1907 - 411 pàgines |
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Pàgina 3
... face at the minute . But there , ' twas written down above against your name , Dr. Anthony Borlace , and no maid can ... faces of both , notwithstanding the differences due to class and education , bore a similar expression , for both ...
... face at the minute . But there , ' twas written down above against your name , Dr. Anthony Borlace , and no maid can ... faces of both , notwithstanding the differences due to class and education , bore a similar expression , for both ...
Pàgina 4
... face , and he flushed scarlet as he stepped forward . It was Tryphena's young master or nursling , for both names were applicable . The small farm at St. Piran's was owned by Archelaus's mother , who had been for years a widow , and ...
... face , and he flushed scarlet as he stepped forward . It was Tryphena's young master or nursling , for both names were applicable . The small farm at St. Piran's was owned by Archelaus's mother , who had been for years a widow , and ...
Pàgina 5
... face of a young Englishman placed in circumstances that demanded no special effort . For , although Archelaus could ... faces of much older men . In the twenties , a handsome man with brains feels this to be the best of all possible ...
... face of a young Englishman placed in circumstances that demanded no special effort . For , although Archelaus could ... faces of much older men . In the twenties , a handsome man with brains feels this to be the best of all possible ...
Pàgina 6
... face , gathering , as such films must , from within , where the kingdom of self - knowledge lies . Meanwhile Tryphena raged inwardly , and prepared for a reproof of Wilmot Borlace , for , like many country women , she loved talk that ...
... face , gathering , as such films must , from within , where the kingdom of self - knowledge lies . Meanwhile Tryphena raged inwardly , and prepared for a reproof of Wilmot Borlace , for , like many country women , she loved talk that ...
Pàgina 9
... face since creation's dawn , was re- flected somehow in Wilmot's face . She , too , was awake , even cruelly so . " I never can abide to hear them birds scritch , " said Tryphena , as they parted ; " it do make the goosey - flesh come ...
... face since creation's dawn , was re- flected somehow in Wilmot's face . She , too , was awake , even cruelly so . " I never can abide to hear them birds scritch , " said Tryphena , as they parted ; " it do make the goosey - flesh come ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
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.