The Battersea series of standard reading books for boys, Livro 31879 |
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... shillings and pennies are made , a gold sovereign and a farthing that had just been finished were lying side by side , and the bright sun was shining in upon them . All at once the sovereign said to the farthing , " Get away from me ...
... shillings and pennies are made , a gold sovereign and a farthing that had just been finished were lying side by side , and the bright sun was shining in upon them . All at once the sovereign said to the farthing , " Get away from me ...
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... shilling's worth of small articles . This first sale seemed to bring me good luck . It gave me confidence . I had more courage to offer my goods for sale ; and when people wanted to buy them at too low a price , I said smartly , " Come ...
... shilling's worth of small articles . This first sale seemed to bring me good luck . It gave me confidence . I had more courage to offer my goods for sale ; and when people wanted to buy them at too low a price , I said smartly , " Come ...
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... shillings in buying the goods for me to sell , and I had brought back to her seven shillings , so that I had gained two shillings by my day's work . " Dear mother , " said I , " if you please , we will buy some new goods to - night , so ...
... shillings in buying the goods for me to sell , and I had brought back to her seven shillings , so that I had gained two shillings by my day's work . " Dear mother , " said I , " if you please , we will buy some new goods to - night , so ...
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... shillings which my mother had desired . " You are a good little boy , Andrew , " she said to me , " I see that you do not lose a minute in playing . I wish to reward you . Keep this two - pence for yourself and buy what you like with it ...
... shillings which my mother had desired . " You are a good little boy , Andrew , " she said to me , " I see that you do not lose a minute in playing . I wish to reward you . Keep this two - pence for yourself and buy what you like with it ...
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... shillings won . Bravo ! That will do very nicely . Luck is on my side to - day . " And he passed on . Immediately the idea came into my head that I would join the players , and play and win also ; for I had no doubt that I should win ...
... shillings won . Bravo ! That will do very nicely . Luck is on my side to - day . " And he passed on . Immediately the idea came into my head that I would join the players , and play and win also ; for I had no doubt that I should win ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
African elephant animal baby Bandy bear beetle began Bingen birds boat brave breast BROWN BEAR cage Caldon-Low captain child cried crowns dark dead dear mother EDITOR elephant escape eyes farthing father fear feet fell flower forest friends gave green green woodpecker grew hand head hear heard heart hippopotamus hoopoes horse hunters hyæna inclosure Issachar jailer kind King Solomon laugh legs LESSON LITTLE PEDLAR live MARY HOWITT master mind mole mole-catcher morning neck nest never night oak-tree once peas poor prayer R. M. BALLANTYNE Rhine round rowlocks saved seized shillings ship side snow soldier Somebody's sometimes soon stood tail tears tell thing thought tiger took tray tree trunk turned watching white shark wind window wings wolves wood wounded young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 165 - Last night, the moon had a golden ring, And to-night no moon we see!" The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he.
Página 151 - I never more shall see my own, my native land : Take a message, and a token to some distant friends of mine; For I was born at...
Página 167 - But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he. Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark, With his face turned to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his fixed and glassy eyes. Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed That saved she might be ; And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave, On the Lake of Galilee.
Página 165 - Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May.
Página 94 - THE GRAVES OF A HOUSEHOLD THEY grew in beauty side by side, They filled one home with glee ; Their graves are severed, far and wide, By mount, and stream, and sea.
Página 82 - I've spun a piece of hempen cloth, And I want to spin another — A little sheet for Mary's bed And an apron for her mother.
Página 159 - Matted and damp are the curls of gold, Kissing the snow of that fair young brow ; Pale are the lips of delicate mould — Somebody's darling is dying now. Back from his beautiful blue-veined brow Brush all the wandering waves of gold: Cross his hands on his bosom now, Somebody's darling is still and cold.
Página 166 - Come hither! come hither! my little daughter, And do not tremble so ; For I can weather the roughest gale That ever wind did blow.
Página 153 - I saw the blue Rhine sweep along— I heard, or seemed to hear, The German songs we used to sing, in chorus sweet and clear; And down the pleasant river, and up the slanting hill...
Página 153 - His voice grew faint and hoarser, — his grasp was childish weak, — His eyes put on a dying look — he sighed and ceased to speak : His comrade bent to lift him, but the spark of life had fled, — The soldier of the Legion, in a foreign land...