The Wingless VictoryJ. Lane, 1907 - 411 pàgines |
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Pàgina 10
... strength . Wilmot , lying close against the slate from which the ledge jutted , watched him keenly as he resumed the occupation which he had interrupted in order to mend the fire . It was much later in the evening , and at the 10 MOON-RISE.
... strength . Wilmot , lying close against the slate from which the ledge jutted , watched him keenly as he resumed the occupation which he had interrupted in order to mend the fire . It was much later in the evening , and at the 10 MOON-RISE.
Pàgina 15
... watched it from his arm till it seemed a terrible witness . Then she awoke . . " Oh , " she cried , pushing him away , " let me go , please . " At her words the man in him awoke exultantly : after all , he was the stronger even if it ...
... watched it from his arm till it seemed a terrible witness . Then she awoke . . " Oh , " she cried , pushing him away , " let me go , please . " At her words the man in him awoke exultantly : after all , he was the stronger even if it ...
Pàgina 22
... watched Wilmot , who sat in the light of the peat fire which glowed on the oak panelling of the splendid old living - room at St. Piran's . Her dress of dull black , with an open slit at the neck , through which shone the ivory skin ...
... watched Wilmot , who sat in the light of the peat fire which glowed on the oak panelling of the splendid old living - room at St. Piran's . Her dress of dull black , with an open slit at the neck , through which shone the ivory skin ...
Pàgina 34
... watched him curiously , and brought him food at intervals . The issue of all this was beyond her . But the man within Archelaus waited for its hour till this fever of creation was over . Just as the child plays at make - belief with ...
... watched him curiously , and brought him food at intervals . The issue of all this was beyond her . But the man within Archelaus waited for its hour till this fever of creation was over . Just as the child plays at make - belief with ...
Pàgina 52
... watched the cheeld by her side , till her couldn't bear it - to think that her cheeld should grow up like her . " " She ought to have killed it , " said Wilmot , in a low voice ; " nobody else would care enough for it to do that ...
... watched the cheeld by her side , till her couldn't bear it - to think that her cheeld should grow up like her . " " She ought to have killed it , " said Wilmot , in a low voice ; " nobody else would care enough for it to do that ...
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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.