The Day's WorkMacmillan, 1898 - 381 pages |
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Page 214 - To you, in David's town, this day Is born, of David's line, The Saviour, who is Christ the Lord ; And this shall be the sign : — 4 " The heavenly babe you there shall find To human view displayed, All meanly wrapped in swathing bands, And in a manger laid.
Page 300 - Don't press, slow back, and keep your eye on the ball," he is, for practical purposes, denationalised. His other education proceeded on the pleasantest lines. Was he interested in any conceivable thing in heaven above, or the earth beneath, or the waters under the earth?
Page 226 - All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.
Page 193 - He had no desire to make any dramatic entry, but an accident of the sunset ordered it that when he had taken off his helmet to get the evening breeze, the low light should fall across his forehead, and he could not see what was before him ; while one waiting at the tent door beheld with new eyes a young man, beautiful as Paris, a god in a halo of golden dust, walking slowly at the head of his flocks, while at his knee ran small naked Cupids.
Page 30 - It is but the shifting of a little dirt. Let the dirt dig in the dirt if it pleases the dirt," answered the Elephant. ' ' But afterwards ? ' ' said the Tiger. ' ' Afterwards they will see that Mother Gunga can avenge no insult, and they fall away from her first, and later from us all, one by one. In the end, Ganesh, we are left with naked altars." The drunken Man staggered to his feet, and hiccupped vehemently.
Page 1 - For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease, with responsibility almost too heavy for one pair of shoulders ; and day by day, through that time, the great Kashi Bridge over the Ganges had grown under his charge.
Page 96 - SOME people will tell you that if there were but a single loaf of bread in all India it would be divided equally between the Plowdens, the Trevors, the Beadons, and the Rivett-Carnacs. That is only one way of saying that certain families serve India generation after generation, as dolphins follow in line across the open sea.
Page 263 - ... ponies, and an officious water-carrier sprinkled the players with dirty water till they sat up. 'My Aunt!' said Powell, rubbing his back and looking at the stumps of the goal-posts, 'that was a game !' They played it over again, every stroke of it, that night at the big dinner, when the Free-for-All Cup was filled and passed down the table, and emptied and filled again, and everybody made most eloquent speeches. About two in the morning, when there might have been some singing, a wise little,...
Page 247 - Benami looks like business," said Shiraz. "How's your temper, Ben?" The old campaigner hobbled off without answering, and the Maltese Cat looked at the new Archangel ponies prancing about on the ground. They were four beautiful blacks, and they saddled big enough and strong enough to eat the Skidars' team and gallop away with the meal inside them. "Blinkers again,