Caleb Krinkle: A Story of American LifeLee and Shepard, 1875 - 500 pages |
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ain't arms asked Aunt Janet beautiful Bell beneath better Boston Bottineau bowed Caleb Krinkle Caleb replied Canticle Captain Krinkle Cassock cheeks child Daisy Dan's dear Deborah Dishaway Doctor door elms eyes face Fair father Flipkin flowers friends Gabberly gave gazed gentlemen girl give glad gone hand happy head hear heard heart hill Hilltown honor hope horse Huldah Jonathan knew Krinkle's laughed light Linda lips Little Maid living look Mayweed Meek's Millbrook Miss Gilliflower Miss Hyssop Miss Wayland morning Moses Meek mother Nahant never night Nubbin Park Street Church parlor passed Peter Peter Smart play pleasure Pompon Porgie raking and scraping Randa round seat side sitting smile spect stood street sweet tell Thank thing thought took turned voice walked White Hair wind Winifred wish words young ladies
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Page 36 - Trust in the Lord, and do good ; So shall thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shall be fed.
Page 22 - This is the house that Jack built. This is the malt that lay in the house that Jack built.
Page 173 - One, I love, Two, I love, Three, I love, I say, Four, I love with all my heart, And five, I cast away ; Six, he loves, Seven, she loves, Eight, they both love ; Nine, he comes, Ten, he tarries, Eleven, he courts, Twelve, he marries ; Thirteen wishes, Fourteen kisses, All the rest little witches.
Page 398 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Page 469 - ... were moving east. He had been riding in a swale, but, ascending a knoll, he gazed upon a magnificent panorama. A fresh breeze had sprung up and the smoke had been lifted. The fire was still three or four miles away, but the animals, scenting danger, had begun their migrations. He could see a cluster of houses in the distance toward the north-west. Around each building there were plowed lands, so that the settlement was not endangered by the fire. For several weeks he had not seen even a solitary...
Page 4 - It was lively only for two or three, and then its loud note could be heard from one end of the village to the other. When it died he gave me the specimen, the only one I was able to procure.
Page 26 - But, most provokingly, whenever I think of Xerxes, the first thing that presents itself to my mind is the couplet in the Primer, " Xerxes the Great did die, And so must you and I.
Page 78 - Nothing more. The wheel is still, the grinding ended, the team across the bridge and Randa beyond the river. The Sabbath comes, the day of peace and rest. Out from the chamber they bear her, young men carrying the bier, out into the summer air, with lilies on her bosom and a white rose in her hand. " Gone!" It is the bell! With trembling lips it speaks, tolling the knell and not the passing hour. With slow and faltering steps, walking blindly by the bier, the stricken parents hear the mournful peal....
Page 78 - They hear a heavily-laden team rolling slowly over the bridge, — the tramp of the horses' feet, the rumbling of the wheels, — and they think of the waters beneath sweeping on to the fathomless sea, and then their thoughts are of the sweet child who is going down into the dark and silent river of death. Above them, high up in the sky, they hear the night hawks sadly calling to their mates.
Page 473 - Gott in Himmel ! I vas afraid dat de fraulein vas dead. O Mein Gott ! Mein Gott ! vot a vender ! " said the German, leaping from his wagon, stooping and kissing Linda's hand. Together they lifted her into the wagon, and Caleb held her in his arms while the German drove toward his house. " How came she with you ? " Caleb asked. "Oh, de fraulein vas on de dampfbcot mit me and mein frow and de kinder.