 ... every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labour, began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through...  Select British Classics - Page 621803Full view - About this book
 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 pages
...lyln^ down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld through the brambles the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light, and finding that it proceeded...The old man set before him such provisions as he had col. lected for himself, on which Obidah led with eagerness and gratitude. When the repast was over,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 464 pages
...lying down in resignation to his fate, when lm beheld through the brambles the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light, and finding that it proceeded...humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man net before him such provisions as he had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagerness... | |
 | James Baldwin - Allegories - 1893 - 332 pages
...laying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light ; and finding that it proceeded...called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The did man set before him such provisions as he had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagerness... | |
 | 1894 - 264 pages
...resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced toward the light, and finding that it proceeded from the...on which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude. 4. When the repast was over, 'Tell me,' said the hermit, 'by what chance thou hast been brought hither... | |
 | James Baldwin - Readers - 1897 - 252 pages
...it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. 6 The old man set before him such provisions as he had...what chance thou hast been brought hither : I have to been now twenty years an inhabitant of this wilderness, in which I never saw a man before." Obidah... | |
 | James Baldwin - Children's poetry - 1897 - 488 pages
...down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light, and, finding that it proceeded...called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. 5 The old man set before him such provisions as he had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed with... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1920 - 390 pages
...resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced toward the light, and finding that it proceeded from the...on which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude. 11. When the repast was over, "Tell me," said the hermit, "by what chance thou hast been brought hither;... | |
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