Little Classics: HeroismRossiter Johnson J.R. Osgood, 1875 |
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... never had a wish ungratified until I was twelve years of age . My wish then was to stay on a two - year - old colt which had never been broken . He did not coincide with me , and a vast revelation of the resistances to individual will ...
... never had a wish ungratified until I was twelve years of age . My wish then was to stay on a two - year - old colt which had never been broken . He did not coincide with me , and a vast revelation of the resistances to individual will ...
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... never having any pocket - money , one of the wholesomest - looking boys in school . It was about this latter period , that an astonishing innovation was introduced at Barker's . The two Misses Moodle came to establish a young ladies ...
... never having any pocket - money , one of the wholesomest - looking boys in school . It was about this latter period , that an astonishing innovation was introduced at Barker's . The two Misses Moodle came to establish a young ladies ...
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... never made any Latin deposit , or had just put a fresh batch of offenders into the penal oven of untimely bed , and felt compelled to run up now and then to keep up the fire under them , by a harrowing description of the way their ...
... never made any Latin deposit , or had just put a fresh batch of offenders into the penal oven of untimely bed , and felt compelled to run up now and then to keep up the fire under them , by a harrowing description of the way their ...
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... never seemed brushed enough when I beheld her ; and I quite spoiled the shape of my best boots through an elevation of the instep , caused by putting a rolled - up pair of stockings inside each heel , to approximate the manly stature at ...
... never seemed brushed enough when I beheld her ; and I quite spoiled the shape of my best boots through an elevation of the instep , caused by putting a rolled - up pair of stockings inside each heel , to approximate the manly stature at ...
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... never did before . I went and took a ride without asking Barker . Perhaps it was because I did this that he said , " There's no use in granting a boy pleasures , if you give him an inch he takes an ell " ; perhaps it was because I had ...
... never did before . I went and took a ride without asking Barker . Perhaps it was because I did this that he said , " There's no use in granting a boy pleasures , if you give him an inch he takes an ell " ; perhaps it was because I had ...
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arms Barker battery battle Beltran Berceau de Dieu Bernadou blood blue Bonny Dundee brave brave mountaineers Briggs's Chattanooga Chikara child cloud cottage dark dead dear death door Elspeth enemy enemy's eyes face Federal feet fire flag Fort Wood forty-seven francs-tireurs front girl gray guns hand head heart heaven hill knew Kôtsuké no Suké Lambert lips Little Briggs little Jane lived looked Lookout Lookout Mountain lord Margot Mary Dallas Mary's Miss Crickey Miss Moodle Miss Tucker Miss Vass Mission Ridge Mixer mother mountain never night Number Oishi Kuranosuké Orchard Knob Ray's Rebel Reine Allix rifle-pits rolled Rônins round Sendai shot side silent smile stood street Suké's sweet swept Takumi no Kami tears thing thought took turned Vennard Vivia voice watched William Lambert woman woods words wounded Yedo young
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الصفحة 192 - And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
الصفحة 170 - And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation ; 37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.
الصفحة 132 - And furious every charger neighed To join the dreadful revelry. Then shook the hills with thunder riven Then rushed the steed to battle driven, And louder than the bolts of heaven Far flashed the red artillery.
الصفحة 151 - ... in a life of drunkenness and lust, began to think that he had no longer anything to fear from the retainers of Takumi no Kami, who must be cowards, without the courage to avenge their lord. So by degrees he began to keep a less strict watch, and sent back half of the guard which had been lent to him by his fatherin-law, Uyesugi Sama.
الصفحة 133 - They dash out a little way, and then slacken ; they creep up, hand over hand, loading and firing, and wavering and halting, from the first line of works to the second ; they burst into a charge with a cheer, and go over it. Sheets of flame baptize them ; plunging shot tear away comrades on left and right ; it is no longer shoulder to shoulder ; it is God for us all...
الصفحة 156 - Kotsuke no Suke's men having been killed, there was an end of the fighting; but as yet there was no trace of Kotsuke no Suke to be found.
الصفحة 142 - wave-man ;" one who is tossed about hither and thither, as a wave of the sea. It is used to designate persons of gentle blood, entitled to bear arms, who, having become separated from their feudal lords by their own act, or by dismissal, or by fate, wander about the country in the capacity of somewhat disreputable knights-errant, without ostensible means of living, in some cases offering themselves for hire to new masters, in others supporting themselves by pillage ; or who, falling a grade in the...
الصفحة 149 - Kotsuke no Suke's spies reported all this at Yedo, he was greatly relieved at the news, and felt secure from danger. One day Kuranosuke's wife, who was bitterly grieved to see her husband lead this abandoned life, went to him and said: " My lord, you told me at first that your debauchery was but a trick to make your enemy relax in watchfulness. But indeed, indeed, this has gone too far. I pray and beseech you to put some restraint upon yourself.
الصفحة 144 - ... custom, had brought him in return for his instruction, were mean and unworthy, he conceived a great hatred against them, and took no pains in teaching them, but on the contrary rather sought to make laughing-stocks of them. Takumi no Kami, restrained by a stern sense of duty, bore his insults with patience, but Kamei Sama, who had less control over his temper, was violently incensed and determined to kill Kotsuke no Suke.
الصفحة 203 - War and rumours of war, revolutions and counter-revolutions, empires and insurrections, military and political questions— these all were for it things unknown and unheard of, mighty winds that arose and blew and swept the lands around it, but never came near enough to harm it, lying there, as it did, in its loneliness like any lark's nest. Even in the great days of the Revolution it had been quiet. It had had a lord whom it loved in the old castle on the hill at whose feet it nestled; it had never...