Broomsticks, and Other TalesA. A. Knopf, 1925 - 332 من الصفحات |
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Alice aunt Barbara Allan bawbee beneath birds boys breath chair Cheriton child chimney cold creature cried dark dear dear father Dick and Harry door dreadful dream Euphemia eyes face faint fairies father fingers garden gazed gently glance glass gone grandfather's clock Grannie green Griselda hair hairy ear hand happy head heard heart Jean Elspeth juggler Keren-Happuch knew light listened little girl lived looked looking-glass loved Lucy Maria mind Miss Chauncey Miss Jemima Miss Rawlings Miss Rawlings's morning mother Myfanwy never night nose old lady Old Nollykins once Pigtails poor quiet realised round Sam's seemed seen sigh sight sitting sleep smile sound staring stone Stoneyhouse stood stooping strange stranger street supposed Susan Tabitha talk tell Thief thing thought tiny turned veil voice walls Warwickshire watched water-meadows whispered window wonder words young
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الصفحة 220 - GIRLS and boys, come out to play, The moon doth shine as bright as day; Leave your supper, and leave your sleep, And come with your playfellows into the street.
الصفحة 11 - He turn'd his face unto the wall, And death was with him dealing; 'Adieu, adieu, my dear friends all, And be kind to Barbara Allan.
الصفحة 10 - O mother, mother, make my bed! O make it saft and narrow! Since my love died for me to-day, I'll die for him to-morrow.
الصفحة 226 - Hatha way's herself. In course of time the Lord-Lieutenant and the Sheriffs and the Justices of the Peace and the Bishop and the mayors of the neighbouring towns, jealous no doubt of this fame and miracle in their midst, did their utmost to persuade and compel the Mayor and Corporation of Cheriton to remove the Boys to the county-town — the Earl himself promising to house them in an old Inn not a stone's-throw distant from the lovely shrine of his ancestors, Beauchamp Chapel. But all in vain. The...
الصفحة 306 - For some reason, this particular fly was different; and Maria sat watching it with the closest attention. It seemed to be that just as Maria herself was one particular little girl, so this was one particular fly. A fly by itself . A fly living its own one life; confident, alert, alone in its own Fly World.
الصفحة 126 - Upon my return home I visited the kennel, and was delighted with the management of it ; there was a place for everything, and everything was in its place.
الصفحة 217 - ... not to be sudden death. But if you just keep the dreamshape out without rousing his sleeping body, then he will for ever more be your slave, and will never grow any older. And what keeps a human's dream-shape out — or animal's either for that matter — she said, is a love-knot twist of steel or a horseshoe upside down, or a twisted wreath of elder and ash fastened up with an iron nail over the keyhole — and every window shut. Brick walls and stone and wood are nothing to such wanderers....
الصفحة 209 - ... his leg at eighteen, Old Noll had been unable to sleep at all. It was a clear mild night with no wind, and a fine mild scrap of a moon was in the West, and the stars shone bright. There was always a sweet balmy air in Cheriton, borne in from the meadows that then stretched in within a few furlongs of the town; and so silent was the hour you could almost hear the rippling of the river among its osiers that far away. And as Old Nollykins was sitting like a gaunt shadow all by himself on the first...
الصفحة 214 - ... had left no impression on their waking minds. Poor Old Noll. An echo of that music and the sight he had seen kept him awake for many a night after, and his body was already shrunken up by age and his miserly habits to nothing much more substantial than a bag of animated bones. And yet all his watching was in vain. So weary and hungry for sleep did he become, that when at last the hunter's moon shone at its brightest and roundest over the roofs of Cheriton, he nodded off in his chair. He was roused...
الصفحة 218 - He had pondered all day on what the old woman had said, and 'surely,' said he to himself, 'their blood's fresh enough, my old stick keeps them out of mischief, and what is better for a green young body than a long day's work and not too much to eat and an airy lodging for the night?