Una's Friends: Their Holiday in FairylandJarrold & Sons, 1901 - 236 páginas |
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adventures Alix Allegra Alwina Amyot arms asked Auntie Oriana Jane baby bogie Bookstalls boot-boy brave castle Cormac cried cuckoo dachshunds Dame Drumble dark dear Defective Verb door dromotherium Duke Eachan eyes face fancy Farmer father felt Fionnghala forest friends frogs girl goblin grandmamma grey hair hand head heard heart hill Illustrated Impersonal Verb Jarrold and Sons Kelpie knew lady laughed light Lonely Loch looked lord maiden Meta and Greta Miss Dulcie Morna morning mother mountain never night Olive Spirit olive wood once PAUL HARDY Peggy Professor Robert Overton round sang Schoolmaster screamed seneschal side sing songs sort stood story Striped supper sure talking tell things thought told Tommy Tommy's tree troubadours turn Una's Victoria Cross voice wait Warwick Lane Water-Horse wonderful wood wood-cutter's wife wood-sprite young Baron
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Página 11 - The time has come,' the Walrus said, ' To talk of many things: Of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax Of cabbages - and kings And why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings.
Página 35 - Ye who love the haunts of Nature, Love the sunshine of the meadow, Love the shadow of the forest, Love the wind among the branches, And the rain-shower and the snowstorm, And the rushing of great rivers Through their palisades of pinetrees, And the thunder in the mountains, Whose innumerable echoes Flap like eagles in their eyries; — Listen to these wild traditions, To this Song of Hiawatha!
Página 233 - Germany have gracious y accepted copies of this book, of which they have expressed their appreciation to the Author. REX ; or Winning the Victoria Cross. By L. THOMPSON. Illustrated by WB WOLLEN, RI An intricate plot, full of adventures by sea and land. Thrilling account of the rescue of the captive heroine — a unique and unprecedented wedding — the young couple taken prisoners — court-martial of the young
Página 187 - ... robin, sing; I still am sore in doubt concerning Spring. I wonder if the springtide of this year Will bring another Spring both lost and dear; If heart and spirit will find out their Spring, Or if the world alone will bud and sing: Sing, hope, to me; Sweet notes, my hope, soft notes for memory. The sap will surely quicken soon or late, The tardiest bird will twitter to a mate...
Página 132 - The pass was steep and rugged, The wolves they howled and whined; But he ran like a whirlwind up the pass, And he left the wolves behind.
Página 187 - ... out their Spring, Or if the world alone will bud and sing: Sing, hope, to me! Sweet notes, my hope, soft notes for memory. The sap will surely quicken soon or late, The tardiest bird will twitter to a mate; So Spring must dawn again with warmth and bloom, Or in this world, or in the world to come: Sing, voice of Spring! Till I too blossom and rejoice and sing.
Página 234 - It is a narrative of considerable power, based on a miscarriage of justice — the transports uon of an innocent father, and the brilliant adventures of his son on land and sea during the boy's unswerving resolve to set his father's character right in the eyes of the world. The hero of the story is a type of manliness and of British pluck, who by the sheer force of his courage overcomes more than ordinary difficulties and heartrending disappointments, and in the long run vindicates his father's...
Página 234 - A book full of adventures, really a book for boys, to show them how to be brave and how to endure.
Página 30 - She sat on the edge of the bed, with her elbows on her knees and her chin in her hands. "I can't believe how you look.
Página 234 - ROBERT OVERTON. With twelve Illustrations by WH MARGETSON 2nd Edition. 35. 6d. Being the recital of the perils and escapes of Bart Arber in finding and saving his convict-father, assisted by hi...