The Laidlaw Readers: Grades four, five, and sixLaidlaw brothers, 1928 |
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Acadian Alan-a-Dale Alexander Graham Bell answer arrow Basil beautiful began Bell Betsy Hill Blue-eyed Girl Brabant brother Brown-eyed Boy chief contest Corbie Corbie's cried crow danced dollars Edison Elsa Evangeline Evangeline's eyes Fair Marian father following points Forked Lightning Franklin friends Gabriel glade Grand-Pré hand heard heart horses hundred invention Joan king's land laughed LEARN light little Corbie Little John lived Lohengrin looked Mabel Malaset Mark Twain Morse mother Naomi night Notice the following Old Glory outlaw potter questions without referring READ THE STORY READ THIS SECTION Red Fox river Robin Hood rose S. F. B. Morse Samuel F. B. Morse SECTION Notice sheriff Sherwood Forest shout side silent sound stood STUDY ACTIVITIES suddenly Swan Knight telegraph tell TEST AND STUDY thee things thou told trees village voice wild wire wireless wonder woods WORDS young
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Page 224 - What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God ! Felicia Hemans.
Page 221 - THE breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed ; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Page 192 - And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning. Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terrible anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows. On the pallet before her was stretched the form of an old man. Long, and thin...
Page 143 - Over the basement below protected and shaded the door-way. There in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly the sunset lighted the village street, and gilded the vanes on the chimneys, Matrons and maidens sat in snowwhite caps and in kirtles Scarlet and blue and green, with distaffs spinning the golden Flax for the gossiping looms, whose noisy shuttles within doors Mingled their sound with the whir of the wheels and the songs of the maidens.
Page 204 - No— no— I reckon it wouldn't hardly do, Ben. You see, Aunt Polly's awful particular about this fence— right here on the street, you know— but if it was the back fence I wouldn't mind and she wouldn't. Yes, she's awful particular about this fence; it's got to be done...
Page 178 - Twinkling vapors arose ; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together. Hanging between two skies, a cloud with edges of silver, Floated the hoat, with its dripping oars, on the motionless water.
Page 141 - SMALL service is true service while it lasts : Of humblest Friends, bright Creature ! scorn not one : The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the Sun.
Page 223 - This was their welcome home ! There were men with hoary hair Amidst that pilgrim band; — Why had they come to wither there, Away from their childhood's land ? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth.
Page 223 - Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame. Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear: — They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea: And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free!