St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls, Volume 23Mary Mapes Dodge Scribner & Company, 1896 |
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ACROSTIC answered arms asked Balaam baron black dwarf boat brother Brown called Capernaum captain Clarissy Ann cried CROSS-WORDS Cyril dark DEAR ST Eugene Field exclaimed eyes Ezra face father feet fire followed Fred friends Galilee giant girl Grand Duke Green Magician hand head hear heard Jerusalem Jesus Jesus of Nazareth Joppa Khan king knew Kublai Khan laughed little Duchess live Lois look Marco Polo Mary Master Maurice Menawa meteorites morning mother mountain Nassur Nazareth never NICHOLAS night once Owney Passover Port Hudson Prester John prince princess prize rabbis replied Sindbad Romanek seemed seen ship side smile Smith soldiers stand stone stood story tell thee thing thou thought told took tower turned Uncle voice walked wonder words young
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Page 1034 - Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore, Nameless here for evermore.
Page 1008 - Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
Page 1012 - Yea. and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre; and when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive. And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.
Page 613 - Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence seemed, and unbroken, save by the herons Home to their roosts in the cedar-trees returning at sunset, Or by the owl, as he greeted the moon with demoniac laughter.
Page 1012 - Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people : And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, today is the third day since these things were done.
Page 819 - Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but except ye repent yc shall all likewise perish.
Page 819 - Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things ? I tell you, Xay ; but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Page 819 - And when it was evening, His disciples came to Him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.
Page 1012 - O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Page 1012 - What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad: And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?