American Notes and Queries, Nide 5William Shepard Walsh, Henry Collins Walsh, William H. Garrison, Samuel R. Harris W.S. and H.C. Walsh, 1890 |
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... true their sweethearts are talking and thinking about them . The sweetheart , when on the way to see his lady love , should he stub his right toe , he will surely be welcome , but if he stubs his left , he may know that he is not wanted ...
... true their sweethearts are talking and thinking about them . The sweetheart , when on the way to see his lady love , should he stub his right toe , he will surely be welcome , but if he stubs his left , he may know that he is not wanted ...
Sivu 21
... true explanation of the meaning of the definitions in the older dic- tionaries . But I think the term land - pike mo more frequently designates a thin , lank , half - wild swine , as your correspondent has suggested . S. T. ANDREWS ...
... true explanation of the meaning of the definitions in the older dic- tionaries . But I think the term land - pike mo more frequently designates a thin , lank , half - wild swine , as your correspondent has suggested . S. T. ANDREWS ...
Sivu 22
... true . But I know some ex- cellent people ( at least , I so regard them ) who do not like to look any one in the eye . King Henry VIII , according to Puttenham , took great offense if a subject looked him in the eye , regarding it as an ...
... true . But I know some ex- cellent people ( at least , I so regard them ) who do not like to look any one in the eye . King Henry VIII , according to Puttenham , took great offense if a subject looked him in the eye , regarding it as an ...
Sivu 27
... true name was Schwarzerd black earth . This little list is capable of immense extension . Will your corre- spondents kindly add to it ? CORRY , PA . QUERIES . B. S. T. Authorship Wanted . - Who is the author of the following lines ...
... true name was Schwarzerd black earth . This little list is capable of immense extension . Will your corre- spondents kindly add to it ? CORRY , PA . QUERIES . B. S. T. Authorship Wanted . - Who is the author of the following lines ...
Sivu 29
... True friendship and fidelity . FEBRUARY . The February born will find Sincerity and peace of mind , Freedom from passion and from care If they the Amethyst will wear . MARCH . Who on this world of ours their eyes In March first open ...
... True friendship and fidelity . FEBRUARY . The February born will find Sincerity and peace of mind , Freedom from passion and from care If they the Amethyst will wear . MARCH . Who on this world of ours their eyes In March first open ...
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Sivu 63 - Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad — a personage less imposing — in the eyes of some perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.
Sivu 46 - Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, Sister spirit, come away ! What is this absorbs me quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns...
Sivu 46 - What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirit, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heaven opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring : Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! O Grave ! where is thy Victory ? O Death ! where is thy Sting?
Sivu 46 - Hark! they whisper; angels say, Sister spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? The world recedes; it disappears!
Sivu 39 - One, two, Buckle my shoe; Three, four, Shut the door; Five, six, Pick up sticks; Seven, eight, Lay them straight; Nine, ten, A good fat hen; Eleven, twelve, Who will delve?
Sivu 293 - We soon observed, that in talking to one another we lost several of our words, and could not hear one another at above two yards' distance, and that too when we sat very near the fire.
Sivu 29 - Who comes with summer to this earth And owes to June her day of birth, With ring of Agate on her hand Can health, wealth and long life command.
Sivu 179 - WHEN Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation — 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any sage's creed or calculation) — A mode of proving that the earth turn'd round In a most natural whirl, called " gravitation ; " And this is the sole mortal who could grapple, Since Adam, with a fall, or with an apple.
Sivu 124 - And for myself, besides my yearly allowance, I would have twenty gowns of apparel, six of them excellent good ones, eight of them for the country, and six other of them very excellent good ones.
Sivu 233 - River; then following the course of the Rio Roxo westward, to the degree of longitude 100 west from London...