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... eyes will sparkle like diamonds at the party to - night . Ida Hunter , with her piercing black orbs , will find in ... bright eyes ? At length I resolved to go shopping . To have a handsome dry - goods clerk gaze into their raven depths ...
... eyes will sparkle like diamonds at the party to - night . Ida Hunter , with her piercing black orbs , will find in ... bright eyes ? At length I resolved to go shopping . To have a handsome dry - goods clerk gaze into their raven depths ...
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... brilliant drawing room . Mercy ! I almost screamed , as the brilliant glare of the gas - lighted parlors flashed upon my shrinking eyes ! It was too much ; I could not endure the pain . I beat a hasty and inglorious retreat , returned ...
... brilliant drawing room . Mercy ! I almost screamed , as the brilliant glare of the gas - lighted parlors flashed upon my shrinking eyes ! It was too much ; I could not endure the pain . I beat a hasty and inglorious retreat , returned ...
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Wirt Sikes. train , bright and early . And never bore locomotive such a " countenance of destiny , " as did that identical " morning run ' in the eyes of our hero , as it came snorting and shrieking through the tunnel opposite where ...
Wirt Sikes. train , bright and early . And never bore locomotive such a " countenance of destiny , " as did that identical " morning run ' in the eyes of our hero , as it came snorting and shrieking through the tunnel opposite where ...
Page 65
... eyes sparkling with vivacity . It was done so quickly , that there was no help for it but to sit still - if there ... bright eyes , after a slight display of timidity , extended a tiny book , hesitatingly , as much as to say- 66 Perhaps ...
... eyes sparkling with vivacity . It was done so quickly , that there was no help for it but to sit still - if there ... bright eyes , after a slight display of timidity , extended a tiny book , hesitatingly , as much as to say- 66 Perhaps ...
Page 66
... bright eyes again offered the book , he arose with the rest and joined in the song . " I'm a pilgrim , and I'm a stranger ! " sung the children ; and he was with them . 66 THE LITTLE SINGER .
... bright eyes again offered the book , he arose with the rest and joined in the song . " I'm a pilgrim , and I'm a stranger ! " sung the children ; and he was with them . 66 THE LITTLE SINGER .
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Page 95 - We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best...
Page 31 - Who loved thee so fondly as he ? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee.
Page 95 - WE live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest : Lives in one hour more than in years do some Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins.
Page 90 - For thou art only five feet high, And I am six feet three : I wonder, dear, how you supposed That I could look so low ; There's many a one can tie a knot, Who cannot tie a beau! Besides, you must confess, my love, The bargain's scarcely fair : For never could we make a match, Although we made a pair ; Marriage, I know, makes one of two, But there's the horrid bore, My friends decl'are if you are one, That I at least am four...
Page 90 - THE TALL GENTLEMAN'S APOLOGY. Upbraid me not ! I never swore Eternal love to thee ; For thou art only four feet high, And I am six feet three : I wonder, dear, how you supposed That I could look so low ; There's many a one can tie a knot Who cannot...