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... glass with long down - hanging pointed leaves . Even the damp of your own breath lies rigid and still on the window - pane frozen into delicate patterns like fern- leaves of ice . All this water was yesterday flowing busily , or falling ...
... glass with long down - hanging pointed leaves . Even the damp of your own breath lies rigid and still on the window - pane frozen into delicate patterns like fern- leaves of ice . All this water was yesterday flowing busily , or falling ...
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... glass ; but I wiped the pane clear , and breathed on it several times . When new drops were formed , I said , " Cissy and auntie have done like this all night in the room . " She nodded her little head and amused herself for a long time ...
... glass ; but I wiped the pane clear , and breathed on it several times . When new drops were formed , I said , " Cissy and auntie have done like this all night in the room . " She nodded her little head and amused herself for a long time ...
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... glass cases there , and think that they Fig . 3 . have been built up under the rolling surf by the tiny jelly animals ; and then coral will become a real living thing to you , and you will love the thoughts it awakens . But people often ...
... glass cases there , and think that they Fig . 3 . have been built up under the rolling surf by the tiny jelly animals ; and then coral will become a real living thing to you , and you will love the thoughts it awakens . But people often ...
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... glass and gather them to a point on a piece of brown paper , for they will set the paper alight . Sir John Herschel tells us that at the Cape of Good Hope the heat was even so great that he cooked a beefsteak and roasted some eggs by ...
... glass and gather them to a point on a piece of brown paper , for they will set the paper alight . Sir John Herschel tells us that at the Cape of Good Hope the heat was even so great that he cooked a beefsteak and roasted some eggs by ...
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... glass , ice , or even wood or brick walls . This substance we call " ether . " I cannot give you here the reasons why we must assume that it is throughout all space ; you must take this on the word of such men as Sir John Herschel or ...
... glass , ice , or even wood or brick walls . This substance we call " ether . " I cannot give you here the reasons why we must assume that it is throughout all space ; you must take this on the word of such men as Sir John Herschel or ...
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Page 152 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Page 192 - That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 5 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 7 - COAL FIELDS of GREAT BRITAIN; their History, Structure, and Resources ; with Notices of the Coal Fields of other parts of the World. By EDWARD HULL, MA, FRS, Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland, Professor of Geology in the Royal College of Science, Dublin, £c.
Page 6 - MINERALOGIST'S DIRECTORY ; or, A GUIDE to the PRINCIPAL MINERAL LOCALITIES in the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND.
Page 7 - HOLDSWORTH.— DEEP-SEA FISHING and FISHING BOATS. An Account of the Practical Working of the various Fisheries carried on around the British Islands. With illustrations and Descriptions of the Fishing Boats, Nets, and other gear in use; and Notices of the Principal Fishing Stations in the United Kingdom.
Page 11 - FIRST GREEK BOOK. Containing Exercises and Reading Lessons on the Inflexions of Substantives and Adjectives, and of the Active Verb in the Indicative Mood. With copious Vocabularies. Being the First Part of the Constructive Greek Exercises.
Page 4 - MONEY, WEIGHTS, and MEASURES of the CHIEF COMMERCIAL NATIONS IN THE WORLD, with the British Equivalents.