Story Hour Readings: Fourth yearAmerican Book Company, 1921 - 367 من الصفحات |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Abraham Lincoln American answered arms army Arthur asked Audun Auki battle bear birds Bob Cratchit brave British called Captain Charlemagne Chesapeake Bay Christmas Columbus Cornwallis cried Dædalus door earth ÉMILE SOUVESTRE eyes face father feet Fezziwig fire foes French give hand head heard heart hills honor horse hour Icelander Illinois country Indians Iron JAMES BALDWIN JAMES JOHONNOT Jean Valjean Kilhugh king King Arthur knew knight land Lars Porsena Lincoln live looked Lygian Martha mighty morning never Paulette pioneer poem river Roland round S. H. R. SEVEN Sallette settlers ship side Smith song soon spirit stanza stood story tell thee things thou thought Tiny Tiny Tim told took trees turned voice Washington wild wind woods words young Cratchits ΙΟ
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 168 - TO A WATERFOWL Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
الصفحة 278 - We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow.
الصفحة 105 - For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths— for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead.
الصفحة 319 - Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?
الصفحة 300 - But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
الصفحة 299 - And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band: "Strike ! till the last armed foe expires ! Strike ! for your altars and your fires ! Strike ! for the green graves of your sires ; God, and your native land...
الصفحة 335 - WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE? BY WILLIAM JONES "1 T 7"HAT constitutes a State ? * * Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; • Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred 'and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : — men, high-minded men...
الصفحة 321 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
الصفحة 184 - His going forth is from the end of the heaven, And his circuit unto the ends of it : And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
الصفحة 311 - WARREN'S ADDRESS AT THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL BY JOHN PIERPONT OTAND! the ground's your own, my braves! ^ Will ye give it up to slaves?