The War Eagle: A Contemporary NovelJohn Lane Company, 1918 - 313 pàgines |
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Pàgina 13
... roses , and a lake with white sails - and his unseen Robinson Crusoe says , " Here's your chance . " Of course the real thing isn't at all like the pictured thing . The orchard isn ... rose - covered ranch - house awaits him THE WAR EAGLE 13.
... roses , and a lake with white sails - and his unseen Robinson Crusoe says , " Here's your chance . " Of course the real thing isn't at all like the pictured thing . The orchard isn ... rose - covered ranch - house awaits him THE WAR EAGLE 13.
Pàgina 14
A Contemporary Novel William James Dawson. and no rose - covered ranch - house awaits him ; but the dream of it is there . So this man who has never worked with his hands has to learn to plough and plant and build , to be his own ...
A Contemporary Novel William James Dawson. and no rose - covered ranch - house awaits him ; but the dream of it is there . So this man who has never worked with his hands has to learn to plough and plant and build , to be his own ...
Pàgina 25
... rose - red banner hung across the lake . The surface of the water was here smooth as glass , there rippled by a gust of wind , that brought with it the penetrating odour of resinous pine- trees , the smell of grass and cattle , and the ...
... rose - red banner hung across the lake . The surface of the water was here smooth as glass , there rippled by a gust of wind , that brought with it the penetrating odour of resinous pine- trees , the smell of grass and cattle , and the ...
Pàgina 30
... rose up against the stupendous folly of it all . His life and mine - I had begun by comparing them -dare I go on ? I began to perceive a peril to my sat- isfaction . A dark thought lurked ahead , and lifted a venemous head out of its ...
... rose up against the stupendous folly of it all . His life and mine - I had begun by comparing them -dare I go on ? I began to perceive a peril to my sat- isfaction . A dark thought lurked ahead , and lifted a venemous head out of its ...
Pàgina 31
... rose from the warm sand , dressed , and went down the trail whistling . I remembered that I had promised to go boating with Alice Croxon in the afternoon . IV The day was indeed made for living . The whole narrow valley was like a ...
... rose from the warm sand , dressed , and went down the trail whistling . I remembered that I had promised to go boating with Alice Croxon in the afternoon . IV The day was indeed made for living . The whole narrow valley was like a ...
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afraid Alan Joddrel Alice Croxon America asked Belgium believe better called child course Cunard dark dear dear boy death dress Dutton egoism England eyes face father fear feel fight fire friends Fruitvale Gareth gazed German girl glacier glad gone Grace Lorimer grey hand happy hate Hausling heard heart Herridge hour idyll kind knew lake laughed light live looked Lusitania Lynette Marne Mary Lorimer mean mind mother mountains never night Oakwood once recognised remember remorseful song replied rose round sailed seemed selfish sense silent Silver Lakes sleep smile sort soul spoke stood story suppose sure talk tell Theodore Croxon there's thing thought tion told uncon veil of gossamer veldt verandah Vernon voice WAR EAGLE whispered wish woman women wonder woods words write York young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 271 - ALMIGHTY GOD, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Pàgina 248 - When you meet the foe you will defeat him. No quarter will be given, no prisoners will be taken. Let all who fall into your hands be at your mercy. Just as the Huns a thousand years ago, under the leadership of...
Pàgina 49 - What did our arrogancy profit us? And what good have riches and vaunting brought us? Those things all passed away as a shadow, and as a message that runneth by: as a ship passing through the billowy water, whereof, when it is gone by, there is no trace to be. found, neither pathway of its keel in the billows: or as when a bird flieth through the air, no token of her passage is found, but the light wind, lashed with the stroke of her pinions, and rent asunder with the violent rush of the moving wings,...
Pàgina 299 - I believe that my mother and all her other daughters would have joined heartily, if asked, in my conviction that it was one of the best things that ever happened to us.
Pàgina 65 - Then that same day there past into the hall A damsel of high lineage, and a brow May-blossom, and a cheek of appleblossom, Hawk-eyes; and lightly was her slender nose Tip-tilted like the petal of a flower; She into...
Pàgina 17 - Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
Pàgina 248 - And ye have heard men say, Blessed are the poor in spirit; but I say unto you, Blessed are the great in soul and the free in spirit, for they shall enter into Valhalla. And ye have heard men say, Blessed are the peacemakers; but I say unto you, Blessed are the war-makers, for they shall be called, if not the children of Jahve, the children of Odin, who is greater than Jahve.
Pàgina 49 - ... wind, lashed with the stroke of her pinions, and rent asunder with the violent rush of the moving wings, is passed through, and afterwards no sign of her coming is found therein; or as when an arrow is shot at a mark, the air disparted closeth up again immediately, so that men know not where it passed through: so we also, as soon as we were born, ceased to be; and of virtue we had no sign to shew, but in our wickedness we were utterly consumed.
Pàgina 64 - ... like the man in the Bible who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage.
Pàgina 264 - The great ship, so proudly confident, which I had seen sail out in all her strength and beauty, was at the bottom of the sea. She lay there upon the ocean sand — her wounded length still quivering with the blow of death — and down through the dim green water there slowly gathered to her those whom she had sheltered — her silent children, the crowded faces of the dead, open-eyed, with...