The Adventures of a Brownie: As Told to My ChildRand, McNally, 1911 - 153 páginas A brownie makes friends with two small children. |
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... corners— especially kitchen corners , and only comes out after dark when nobody is about , and so some- times people call him Mr. Nobody . I said you were not likely to see him . I never 20 did , certainly , and never knew anybody that ...
... corners— especially kitchen corners , and only comes out after dark when nobody is about , and so some- times people call him Mr. Nobody . I said you were not likely to see him . I never 20 did , certainly , and never knew anybody that ...
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... corner of the cellar , which was never allowed to be disturbed . Why he had chosen it nobody knew , and how he lived 45 there , nobody knew either ; nor what he lived upon . Except that , ever since the family could remember , there had ...
... corner of the cellar , which was never allowed to be disturbed . Why he had chosen it nobody knew , and how he lived 45 there , nobody knew either ; nor what he lived upon . Except that , ever since the family could remember , there had ...
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... corner now— but in vain . " This will never do , " said he ; and being extremely hungry , began running about the coal- cellar to see what he could find . His eyes were 75 as useful in the dark as in the light - like a pussy- cat's ...
... corner now— but in vain . " This will never do , " said he ; and being extremely hungry , began running about the coal- cellar to see what he could find . His eyes were 75 as useful in the dark as in the light - like a pussy- cat's ...
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... corner , and left him the hearth all to himself , where he lay at ease till daybreak . Then , hearing a slight noise overhead , which might be the servants getting up , he jumped on to 185 the table again - gobbled up the few remaining ...
... corner , and left him the hearth all to himself , where he lay at ease till daybreak . Then , hearing a slight noise overhead , which might be the servants getting up , he jumped on to 185 the table again - gobbled up the few remaining ...
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... corner , and fell fast 255 asleep . Immediately Brownie changed himself into the smallest mouse possible ; and , taking care not to make the least noise , gnawed a hole in the door , and squeezed himself through - immediately 260 ...
... corner , and fell fast 255 asleep . Immediately Brownie changed himself into the smallest mouse possible ; and , taking care not to make the least noise , gnawed a hole in the door , and squeezed himself through - immediately 260 ...
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Términos y frases comunes
ADVENTURE Alderney Aylesbury duck basket beautiful began biggest Bill bowl Boxer boys Brownie's cherries chickens child cider clean clothes coal-cellar door Cook corner cottage Craik cried Brownie darted Dartmoor Devonshire DINAH MARIA MULOCK Dolly ducklings eldest England English eyes fairy fairy tale farmyard funny Gardener Gardener's wife hair hands head heard hungry Jess Jess's jumped kangaroo KATHARINE LEE BATES King Arthur kitchen knew ladder lake laughing legs little Brownie little girl lived looked milk mischief morning mother Mulock never night Philip my king play poems pony poor ride scullery scullery maid seen Shetland Isles Shetland pony skylark slide sort Stoke-upon-Trent stop story supper sure table-cloth Tauchnitz tell things thought told took tree tumbled turned round walked warm wee brown Wellesley College whip wild word young
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Página 133 - O'er moor and mountain green, O'er the red streamer that heralds the day, Over the cloudlet dim, Over the rainbow's rim, Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place — O to abide in the desert with thee!
Página 133 - Wild is thy lay and loud, Far in the downy cloud, Love gives it energy, love gave it birth. Where, on thy dewy wing, Where art thou journeying ? Thy lay is in heaven, thy love is on earth. O'er fell and fountain sheen, O'er moor and mountain green, O'er the red streamer that heralds the day, Over the cloudlet dim, Over the rainbow's rim, Musical cherub, soar, singing, away ! Then, when the gloaming comes Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be ! Emblem of happiness, THE...
Página 3 - Arabian Nights," the "Alhambra," and minds which are still strangers to fairyland and hero-land and all the dreamlands of the world's inheritance. Minds of this latter description come almost as barbarians to the study of poetry, deaf to its music and blind to its visions. They are in a foreign clime. In the larger college of life, no less, is felt the lack of an early initiation into literature. A practical people in a practical age, we need the grace of fable to balance our fact, the joy of poetry...
Página 123 - Rule kindly, Tenderly over thy kingdom fair ; For we that love, ah ! we love so blindly, Philip, my king...
Página 123 - Who bears upon his baby brow the round And top of sovereignty." LOOK at me with thy large brown eyes, Philip, my king ! For round thee the purple shadow lies Of babyhood's royal dignities. Lay on my neck thy tiny hand With Love's invisible sceptre laden ; I am thine Esther, to command Till thou...
Página 21 - ... only she was alive, and he couldn't well eat her alive: — besides he knew she was old, and had an idea she might be tough; so he merely said, politely, "How do you do, Mrs. Pussy?
Página 123 - Look at me with thy large brown eyes, Philip my king, Round whom the enshadowing purple lies Of babyhood's royal dignities: Lay on my neck thy tiny hand With love's invisible sceptre laden; I am thine Esther to command Till thou shalt find a queen-handmaiden Philip my king.
Página 123 - Let me behold thee in coming years ! Yet thy head needeth a circlet rarer, Philip, my King — A wreath, not of gold, but palm ! One day, Philip, my King ! Thou too must tread, as we...
Página 20 - ... locked the door, put the key in her pocket, and went off to bed — leaving the supper as before. When Brownie woke up and looked out of his hole, there was, as usual, no supper for him, and the cellar was close shut.
Página 16 - Muff, because she was so fat and soft and her fur so long, who sat dozing in front of the fire, just opened one eye and went to sleep again. She had tried to get her nose into the...