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Page 75 - And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
Page 76 - And they came with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child. And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.
Page 232 - There are many things in the commonwealth of Nowhere, which I rather wish than hope to see adopted in our own.' It was with these words of characteristic irony that More closed the great work. — JR GREEN. The word irony is one of the worst abused in the language ; but it was surely never more gratuitously imported than in this passage. There could be no more simple, direct...
Page 35 - ... its leaves, green at first, soon turn into a brilliant red and yellow ; the sturdy oak is clothed in purple, the gum is dressed in brilliant red; the sumac bushes are covered with leaves of brightest crimson ; the beech with those of a delicate pale yellow almost white ; the chestnut a buff ; while the noble hickory hangs with golden pendants ; the dogwood has its deep rich red leaves and clusters of berries of a brighter red.
Page 72 - I tell you there is nothing in the world he would not do for me," said Veronica, a little sharply.
Page 203 - I don't believe either, and no one I knew in France during my year there believed, that the Boche were always dirty in their tricks, though I will admit that they show up badly as sportsmen.
Page 65 - I have had a great deal to do with them and I have had occasion to find fault in regard to their administration.
Page 90 - sweet reasonableness " to me it seems he has approached very closely to the Christian ideal. And so the word " gentleman " denotes something which cannot be in the least affected by birth or class distinctions.
Page 218 - Great questions are not to be solved by speeches and the resolutions of majorities but by blood and iron.