Around the World: Book Three : for Third and Fourth GradesSilver, Burdett & Company, 1908 - 240 pages |
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Around the World Clarence Franklin Carroll,Stella Webster Carroll Tolman,Estelle M Hart No preview available - 2016 |
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ALASKAN bananas beautiful berries birds blankets boat boys brave called cane canoe carved catch century plants chalet chamois chief Christmas climb clothes cocoanut comes cows Cuba Cubans Dalarne dance deer dishes dressed eggs Eskimos farm fire fish flowers girls grass ground grow Gustavus Gustavus Vasa Hammerfest Havana Hawaii Hawaiian hook horses Indians islands Jeanne Kagoorack lake Lake Lucerne Lapps lasso Liliuokalani live Loke Long ago look machete Marchan's meat Mexicans Mexico miles milk Mindacilla Mont Blanc mother mountain Norway Odin Olaf oranges picture plant plow poles potlatch pulque Ramos reindeer rice ride road rocks rope sail salmon Selma ship side SIMPLON PASS skin snow soldiers Sometimes spear spoon stone sugar summer Swiss Tarantula taro tell Thor Tipoochac Tipoochac's father totem tree Viking volante walk watch wear winter wood
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Page 155 - My hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears ; My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose ; For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are banned and barred — forbidden fare.
Page 156 - And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain ; That iron is a cankering thing, For in these limbs -its teeth remain, With marks that will not wear away...
Page 85 - Take heed that in thy verse Thou dost the tale rehearse, Else dread a dead man's curse; For this I sought thee. " Far in the Northern Land, By the wild Baltic's strand, I, with my childish hand, Tamed the gerfalcon; And, with my skates fast-bound, Skimmed the half-frozen Sound, That the poor whimpering hound Trembled to walk on.
Page 156 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies...
Page 156 - And through the crevice and the cleft Of the thick wall is fallen and left; Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp. And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain; That iron is a cankering thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain...
Page 155 - That father perished at the stake For tenets he would not forsake ; And for the same his lineal race In darkness found a dwelling-place; We were seven, — who now are one, Six in youth, and one in age...
Page 136 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Page 155 - My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are banned and barred — forbidden fare: But this was for my father's faith I suffered chains and courted death ; That father perished at the stake For tenets he would not forsake...
Page 179 - The most able men — from the East and the West, from the North and the South...
Page 157 - Sounding o'er our heads it knock'd; And I have felt the winter's spray Wash through the bars when winds were high And wanton in the happy sky; And then the very rock hath rock'd, And I have felt it shake, unshock'd Because I could have smiled to see The death that would have set me free.