A Garden of SpicesHodder and Stoughton, 1913 - 306 páginas |
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amongst asked Auntie Rosie baize bath beautiful beside blue bridal train bride bridesmaid canna child chintz church curls dainty dancing Davy Dear Jane Doctor door Dragon Dragon's eyes drawing-room Elder Elspeth Elspeth's father eyes face fingers forget-me-nots forgets Freddy's frock garden gate grandfather grandpapa grave grey hair hand hastily head heard heart Hendry housekeeper Jane Janet Kate long kitchen knew Laird laughed lips little girl London ladies looked loud marry master Miss Lilian Mistress Kate morning mother muslin never night once passed piano Princess Royal Psalm replied rose round Sabbath Scotland shawl silence silk sitting slowly smiling snow sofa softly square stood Sunday tartan tawse tears tell thing thought tism to-night told tones turned upstairs voice waiting walked watch whispered white tape window word young
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Página 205 - Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take ; And this I ask for Jesus
Página 43 - Never indeed was any man more contented with doing his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him.
Página 56 - A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.
Página 132 - IN the highlands, in the country places, Where the old plain men have rosy faces, And the young fair maidens Quiet eyes; Where essential silence cheers and blesses, And for ever in the hill-recesses Her more lovely music Broods and dies. O to mount again where erst I haunted; Where the old red hills are bird-enchanted, And the low green meadows Bright with sward; And when even dies, the million-tinted, And the night...
Página 266 - The Lord bless you and keep you, and make His face to shine upon you, and give you peace, now and for ever.
Página 9 - ... had made Least motion, or Reply, But while I listning sought My mind to ease By knowing, where 'twas, or where not, It whisper'd ; Where I please, 80 Lord, then said I, On me one breath, And let me dye before my death ! Cant.
Página 215 - the heaven and the earth were finished, and all the host of them," man was formed ; then lahu-Elohim planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed, to dress it and to keep it.
Página 105 - ... will give earth's utmost line. 9 Thou shalt, as with a weighty rod of iron, break them all ; And, as a potter's sherd, thou shalt them dash in pieces small.
Página 30 - Lord, not only on the Sabbath, but on every day of the week, as opportunities presented.
Página 231 - Eutlierford and I quitted the Major's quarters. The impression left upon my youthful mind by the prolonged sederunt, was one highly favourable to our new acquaintances. The Honourable Lascelles I certainly thought a little too much of the exquisite — a trifle more of the silver-fork-and-rose-leaf...