The Midland Monthly Magazine, Volumes 1-2J. Birgham, 1894 |
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... eyes off the road . The Xerxes county poor - house stands in the midst of its own acres , a little back from the ... eye wearied at dull blacks and browns and dingy yellows . One could. 331377 Nechased ...
... eyes off the road . The Xerxes county poor - house stands in the midst of its own acres , a little back from the ... eye wearied at dull blacks and browns and dingy yellows . One could. 331377 Nechased ...
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... eyes of dark gray , a straight nose , and a mouth that was not the less delicately beautiful because it was a trifle large . Had Mrs. Kearney seen Bernardino Luini's pictures she would proba- bly have recalled the pathetic eyes and ...
... eyes of dark gray , a straight nose , and a mouth that was not the less delicately beautiful because it was a trifle large . Had Mrs. Kearney seen Bernardino Luini's pictures she would proba- bly have recalled the pathetic eyes and ...
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... eyes off the road . " Page 3 . Mrs. Tempest's dark eyes wandered over the room , the bare , yellow - brown walls , the unpainted floor , the long tables covered with mottled brown oil - cloth and spread for the next meal with battered ...
... eyes off the road . " Page 3 . Mrs. Tempest's dark eyes wandered over the room , the bare , yellow - brown walls , the unpainted floor , the long tables covered with mottled brown oil - cloth and spread for the next meal with battered ...
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... eyes which stared straight at Mrs. Tempest and seemed to see no one else . She was feeding the baby out of a shining tin cup , and so carelessly that there was a good deal more bread and milk on her own gown and the baby's than there ...
... eyes which stared straight at Mrs. Tempest and seemed to see no one else . She was feeding the baby out of a shining tin cup , and so carelessly that there was a good deal more bread and milk on her own gown and the baby's than there ...
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... eyes were fixed upon her still . She said almost nothing until after they had made their parting speeches and signed their names in the register and were driving home . Meanwhile , Mrs. Kearney had a great deal to say to Amelia , the ...
... eyes were fixed upon her still . She said almost nothing until after they had made their parting speeches and signed their names in the register and were driving home . Meanwhile , Mrs. Kearney had a great deal to say to Amelia , the ...
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Page 88 - Those activities which directly minister to self-preservation; 2. Those activities which, by securing the necessaries of life, indirectly minister to self-preservation; 3. Those activities which have for their end the rearing and discipline of offspring; 4. Those activities which are involved in the maintenance of proper social and political relations; 5. Those miscellaneous activities which make up the leisure part of life, devoted to the gratification of the tastes and feelings.
Page 221 - Then from a neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.
Page 79 - Twixt earth and paradise, Where things decayed and loved ones lost In dreamy shadows rise, And, freed from all that's earthly vile, Seem hallowed, pure, and bright, Like scenes in some enchanted isle All bathed in liquid light.
Page 408 - Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own!
Page 90 - They did promise and vow three things in my name. First, that I should renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh.
Page 78 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 295 - That John Bunyan of the town of Bedford, labourer, being a person of such and such conditions, he hath (since such a time) devilishly and perniciously abstained from coming to church to hear divine service, and is a common upholder of several unlawful meetings and conventicles, to the great disturbance and distraction of the good subjects of this kingdom, contrary to the laws of our sovereign lord the king, &c.
Page 320 - Volunteers and served therein until the close of his term of service; was collector of internal revenue for the Third district of Iowa from November, 1865, until June, 1869, when he resigned and became a member of the law firm of Shiras, Van Duzee & Henderson...
Page 501 - To study in common how to apply the moral truths and principles of Christianity to the social and economic difficulties of the present time.
Page 52 - ... glad welcome: I shall tremble— yes; And touch her, as when first in the old days I touched her girlish hand, nor dared upraise Mine eyes, such was my faint heart's sweet distress. Then silence: and the perfume of her dress: The room will sway a little, and a haze Cloy eyesight— soulsight, even— for a space; And tears— yes; and the ache here in the throat, To know that I so ill deserve the place Her arms make for me; and the sobbing note I stay with kisses, ere the tearful face Again is...