Nettie GayBenton Smith, 1867 - 205 pàgines |
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
afternoon Amethyst Nook angels Anna arms Auld Lang Syne Aunt Julia basket beaming beautiful beech-nut birds bleached blessings bloom bright bright eyes brother carriage charming child church clasped Cora dark Darling dear delight dreamed dress eyes face father feet felt flowers fresh friends Gay's gently girl good-by green Green Mountains hands happy heard heart heaven Homestead horses journey kiss knew learned leaves light Lily linen Lizzie looked mamma Miss morning mother Mountains Nettie thought Nettie's never night passed prayer quadruped Quakeress refreshments rest robes Rollo sang school-house seat side singing sister smile soft songs soon sorrow spirit Spring Spring Brook squirrels stood Summer sunbeams sunset Susan sweet sweet child swift current teacher tears tender things told took trees Walton weary whip-poor-will wild wings winter wished wonder Woodsey
Passatges populars
Pàgina 26 - Let my sins be all forgiven, Bless the friends I love so well ; Take me when I die to heaven, Happy there with Thee to dwell.
Pàgina 25 - ... her tongue seemed to cleave to the roof of her mouth, and her heart felt cold as ice.
Pàgina 107 - ... saved, but if it was then too late to save her the injury was, as to the railroad company, an inevitable accident, and for such there can be no recovery. If, on her part, it was a race to beat the train over the crossing, the injury was her own fault and there could be no recovery. It is urged that there was a deep ditch on one side of the road and a fence on the other, and that she could not turn her team around.
Pàgina 12 - ... the like of which she had never seen before. She thought it...
Pàgina 116 - After communing some time in silence, they sang the first verse of the hymn sung at her funeral: "Sister, thou wast mild and lovely.
Pàgina 54 - Spring, and laid her away to rest, singing through their tears and heart -aches the hymn commencing, "Sister, thou wast mild and lovely, Gentle as the summer breeze.
Pàgina 57 - Nettie to go to the village to do an errand for her, at Miss Saunder's, the milliner.
Pàgina 62 - They had gone about half the distance, when they came to a wild, rural scene, at a turn of the road, toward Elm Village.