The Whispers of a Shell; Or, Stories from the SeaGriffith and Farran (successors to Newbery and Harris), 1871 - 244 pages |
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... storm ; but after my mother had soothed me and comforted me a little , half forgetting her own terror in so doing , I was sufficiently courageous to pull open the shutter in my little room , and gaze out in a sort of fascination on the ...
... storm ; but after my mother had soothed me and comforted me a little , half forgetting her own terror in so doing , I was sufficiently courageous to pull open the shutter in my little room , and gaze out in a sort of fascination on the ...
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... storm . We shall have a little rough weather to - morrow , thought I , and then mother is sure not to let me go ; how provok- ing , when I have so few pleasures ; and so , with these unthankful words , which I often recalled sorrowfully ...
... storm . We shall have a little rough weather to - morrow , thought I , and then mother is sure not to let me go ; how provok- ing , when I have so few pleasures ; and so , with these unthankful words , which I often recalled sorrowfully ...
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... storm . In the present instance , though utterly amazed at my sudden appearance , she first of all took me into the best kitchen , cut me a good hunch of plum - cake , and gave me a glass of cowslip wine , inquiring how I had come , and ...
... storm . In the present instance , though utterly amazed at my sudden appearance , she first of all took me into the best kitchen , cut me a good hunch of plum - cake , and gave me a glass of cowslip wine , inquiring how I had come , and ...
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... storm coming , and sat watching it with intense interest , dreading every moment that my poor , sick mother would awake with all her terror of a storm . And thus time passed on almost unheeded , so that it must have been midnight when ...
... storm coming , and sat watching it with intense interest , dreading every moment that my poor , sick mother would awake with all her terror of a storm . And thus time passed on almost unheeded , so that it must have been midnight when ...
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Frances Freeling Broderip. she spoke in this manner throughout the night . The storm gradually abated , as the first dim rays of morn- ing broke on the dark sky ; and then she dropped off into a quiet sleep , murmuring faintly like a ...
Frances Freeling Broderip. she spoke in this manner throughout the night . The storm gradually abated , as the first dim rays of morn- ing broke on the dark sky ; and then she dropped off into a quiet sleep , murmuring faintly like a ...
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Page 42 - So little to be loved, and thou so much, That I should ill requite thee to constrain Thy unbound spirit into bonds again. Thou, as a gallant bark from Albion's coast (The storms all weather'd and the ocean cross'd) Shoots...
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