 | Mrs. Ellis H. Chadwick - 1914 - 614 sivua
...that she always appeared to be seeking something, and moving her head from side to side to catch a sight of it. She was very shy and nervous, and spoke with a strong Irish accent. When a book was given her, she dropped her head over it till her nose nearly touched it, and when she... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1916 - 600 sivua
...wrote her first impressions — they all studied the new-comer, perhaps laughed at her. "She looked a little old woman, so shortsighted that she always...something, and moving her head from side to side to catch a sight of it. She was very shy and nervous, and spoke with a strong Irish accent. When a book was... | |
 | Brontë Society - 1917 - 396 sivua
...She looked a little old woman " — said the schoolfellow, Mary Taylor, writing to Mrs. Gaskell ; — "so short-sighted that she always appeared to be seeking...something, and moving her head from side to side to catch a sight of it. She was very shy and nervous, and spoke 18 with a strong Irish accent. We thought her... | |
 | Brontë Society - 1917 - 394 sivua
...that she always appeared to be seeking something, and moving her head from side to side to catch a sight of it. She was very shy and nervous, and spoke with a strong Irish accent. We thought her very ignorant ! But then she would confound us by knowing things that were out of our... | |
 | Lyndall Gordon - 1995 - 466 sivua
...up came the book, close to her nose. Girls like Mary Taylor could not help laughing. Mary remembered that 'she always appeared to be seeking something,...her head from side to side to catch sight of it.' At outdoor games, Charlotte could not see the ball; she stood on the sidelines with a book. As evening... | |
 | Karen Smith Kenyon - 2003 - 140 sivua
...covered cart, in very old-fashioned clothes, and looking very cold and miserable. . . . She looked a little, old woman, so shortsighted that she always...and nervous and spoke with a strong Irish accent. Charlotte's adjustment to Roe Head, run by Miss Margaret Wooler and her four sisters, was difficult... | |
 | Patricia Ingham - 2006 - 295 sivua
...a covered cart, in very old-fashioned clothes, and looking very cold and miserable . . . She looked a little old woman, so short-sighted that she always...something, and moving her head from side to side to catch a sight of it. She was very shy and nervous, and spoke with a strong Irish accent.2 Charlotte's shock... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1916 - 656 sivua
...that she always appeared to be seeking something, and moving her head from side to side to catch a sight of it. She was very shy and nervous, and spoke with a strong Irish accent. When a book was given her, she dropped her head over it till her nose nearly touched it, and when she... | |
 | John Smyth Crone, Seamus O'Cassidy, Colm O Lochlainn - 1916 - 182 sivua
...father rid himself of his Irish accent, went to a boarding school, her teacher describes her thus: "She was very shy and nervous, and spoke with a strong Irish accent." Regarding Emily, whom some critics acclaim the greatest of the three, a recent writer says in reference... | |
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She looked a little old woman, so short-sighted that she always appeared to be seeking something, and moving her head from side to side to catch a sight of it. She was very shy and nervous, and spoke with a strong Irish accent. 
