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... LOOK OUT FOR YOUR CHICKENS ! " it would doubtless improve him . His designs generally are rough , uncouth ... looks . down on him , and makes a forbidding por- agriculture without the consent of those af- fected , and. GAVARNI . 9.
... LOOK OUT FOR YOUR CHICKENS ! " it would doubtless improve him . His designs generally are rough , uncouth ... looks . down on him , and makes a forbidding por- agriculture without the consent of those af- fected , and. GAVARNI . 9.
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... look rather badly to wear through the village - if it wouldn't be too much trouble to just put a stitch in it . " He watched the color come back into the face bent so steadily over that piece of darn- ing ; watched the white fingers ...
... look rather badly to wear through the village - if it wouldn't be too much trouble to just put a stitch in it . " He watched the color come back into the face bent so steadily over that piece of darn- ing ; watched the white fingers ...
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... look of eager inter- est upon his face . My recognition seemed to quench the look at once , and he turned abruptly on his heel and walked away . It was not like him to be among a company of idlers , and I knew that the arrival of Mrs ...
... look of eager inter- est upon his face . My recognition seemed to quench the look at once , and he turned abruptly on his heel and walked away . It was not like him to be among a company of idlers , and I knew that the arrival of Mrs ...
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... look about his whole person . His small , cunning eyes were covered by a pair of glasses which I am sure he wore for ornament , while his hair was combed back straight over his head , to show all the forehead he possessed , though it ...
... look about his whole person . His small , cunning eyes were covered by a pair of glasses which I am sure he wore for ornament , while his hair was combed back straight over his head , to show all the forehead he possessed , though it ...
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... look upon his face , brushed back his hair , rammed down his shirt - bosom , buttoned his coat , and very soberly bade us a good evening . Under ordinary circumstances we should have found abundant food for merriment be- tween ourselves ...
... look upon his face , brushed back his hair , rammed down his shirt - bosom , buttoned his coat , and very soberly bade us a good evening . Under ordinary circumstances we should have found abundant food for merriment be- tween ourselves ...
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Page 330 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said : " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 446 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 330 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which in the providence of God must needs come, but which having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and...
Page 330 - God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God .always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Page 458 - ... are anxious to be agreeable to him ; and no man, but a very impudent dog indeed, can as freely command what is in another man's house, as if it were his own. Whereas at a tavern there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome ; and the more noise you make, the more- trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No...
Page 538 - Scud black and swift across the sky; Like silent ghosts in misty shrouds Stand out the white lighthouses high. Almost as far as eye can reach I see the close-reefed vessels fly, As fast we flit along the beach, One little sandpiper and I.
Page 328 - His hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me, and I think He has, I believe I am ready. I am nothing, but truth is everything. I know I am right, because I know that liberty is right, for Christ teaches it, and Christ is God. I have told them that a house divided against itself cannot stand, and Christ and reason say the same, and they will find it so.
Page 58 - tis and ever was my wish and way To let all flowers live freely, and all die, Whene'er their Genius bids their souls depart, Among their kindred in their native place. I never pluck the rose; the violet's head Hath shaken with my breath upon its bank And not reproacht me; the ever-sacred cup Of the pure lily hath between my hands Felt safe, unsoiled, nor lost one grain of gold.
Page 328 - I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that His hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me — and I think He has — I believe I am ready. I am nothing, but truth is everything. I know I am right because I know that liberty is right, for Christ teaches it, and Christ is God.
Page 329 - Christian soldiers and sailors, a becoming deference to the best sentiment of a Christian people, and a due regard for the Divine will, demand that Sunday labor in the army and navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity. The discipline and character of the National forces should not suffer, nor the cause they defend be imperiled, by the profanation of the day or name of the Most High. "At this time of public distress," adopting the words of Washington in 1776, " men may find enough to do...