John Gray: A Kentucky Tale of the Olden TimeJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1892 - 218 pages |
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Page 11 - ... lined with pink and tied under her chin in a huge white muslin bow. Her face, hidden away under the pink-and-white shadow, showed such tints of pearl and rose that it seemed carved from the inner surface of a sea-shell. Her eyes were gray...
Page 15 - Poor old school-house, long since become scattered ashes ! Poor little backwoods academicians, driven in about sunrise, driven out toward dusk ! Poor little tired backs with nothing to lean against ! Poor little bare feet that could never reach the floor ! Poor little droop-headed figures, so sleepy in the long summer days, so afraid to fall asleep ! Long, long since, little children of the past, your backs have become straight enough, measured on the same cool bed ; sooner or later your...
Page 176 - Ideals are of two kinds. There are those that correspond to our highest sense of perfection. They express what we might be were life, the world, ourselves, all different, all better. Let these be high as they may! They are not useless because unattainable. Life is not a failure because they are never attained. God Himself requires of us the unattainable : ' Be ye perfect, even as I am perfect!
Page 119 - A shaft of sunbeams penetrating a crevice fell on the white neck of a yellow collie that lay on the ground with his head on his paws, his eyes fixed reproachfully on the heels of the horse outside, his ears turned back toward his master. Beside him a box had been kicked over : tools and shoes scattered. A faint line of blue smoke sagged from the dying coals of the forge toward the door, creeping across the anvil bright as if tipped with silver. And in one of the darkest corners of the shop, near...