The Wingless VictoryJ. Lane, 1907 - 411 pàgines |
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Pàgina 14
... touch with the lad . She turned over to lean on her elbows and fling pieces of lichen into the blaze , that the fire might turn the tendrils into fiery snakes . Her pale face looked impish in the glow as she laughed to herself : she was ...
... touch with the lad . She turned over to lean on her elbows and fling pieces of lichen into the blaze , that the fire might turn the tendrils into fiery snakes . Her pale face looked impish in the glow as she laughed to herself : she was ...
Pàgina 15
... touch of his lips she felt the whiteness of the moon - glow like the gleam of a god's throne . She watched it from his arm till it seemed a terrible witness . Then she awoke . . " Oh , " she cried , pushing him away , " let me go ...
... touch of his lips she felt the whiteness of the moon - glow like the gleam of a god's throne . She watched it from his arm till it seemed a terrible witness . Then she awoke . . " Oh , " she cried , pushing him away , " let me go ...
Pàgina 25
... father's hair was red as flame . And when they showed him to me , my prayer had been answered . I praised God to touch the little black down of him . " Wilmot rose hurriedly and turned towards the fire . She Hunger Tower 25.
... father's hair was red as flame . And when they showed him to me , my prayer had been answered . I praised God to touch the little black down of him . " Wilmot rose hurriedly and turned towards the fire . She Hunger Tower 25.
Pàgina 27
... touch may send him over . " They were standing close together , while Mrs. Quick peered short - sightedly at the picture on the easel in the far corner of the room . Both women by the fire heard but the sap boiling in the logs and the ...
... touch may send him over . " They were standing close together , while Mrs. Quick peered short - sightedly at the picture on the easel in the far corner of the room . Both women by the fire heard but the sap boiling in the logs and the ...
Pàgina 50
... touching the white table - cloth , shining blue and phosphorescent against the lamplight . It seemed like a corpse - candle . " Put up the table - cloth against the window , " she cried , " to shut out that light . " In terror the two ...
... touching the white table - cloth , shining blue and phosphorescent against the lamplight . It seemed like a corpse - candle . " Put up the table - cloth against the window , " she cried , " to shut out that light . " In terror the two ...
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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.