Adam BedeClassic Books, 1908 |
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Common terms and phrases
Adam Bede Adam's allays Arthur Donnithorne aunt Bartle Massey beauty better Broxton Burge canna Captain Donnithorne child church Cranage dairy dance dear Dinah Dinah Morris door Eagledale ears Ellastone eyes face father feel fellow felt feyther folks Gawaine George Eliot give glance gone hair Hall Farm hand Hayslope head hear heart Hetty Hetty Sorrel Hetty's Irwine Irwine's Joshua kitchen knew Lisbeth live Loamshire look marry Mester Methodist Methody mind Miss morning mother ne'er never niver Norbury poor preach pretty Robert Evans round Sam Phillips seemed Seth Seth's smile smock-frock soul speak stood supper sure talk tell thee thee't there's things thought to-day to-night Totty Treddleston turned village Vixen voice walked what's woman women words
Popular passages
Page 4 - AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run ; Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise To pay thy morning sacrifice.
Page 226 - And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more.
Page 44 - The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Page 161 - And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? 23 But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Page 45 - I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
Page 44 - And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Page 218 - ... possess on earth. Before you despise Adam as deficient in penetration, pray ask yourself if you were ever predisposed to believe evil of any pretty woman — if you ever could, without hard head-breaking demonstration, believe evil of the one supremely pretty woman who has bewitched you. No : people who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it.
Page 258 - There are few prophets in the world; few sublimely beautiful women ; few heroes. I can't afford to give all my love and reverence to such rarities : I want a great deal of those feelings for my every-day fellow-men, especially for the few in the foreground of the great multitude whose faces I know, whose hands I touch, for whom I have to make way with kindly courtesy.
Page 98 - VIDENTLY that gate is never opened : for the long grass and the great hemlocks grow close against it ; and if it were opened, it is so rusty, that the force necessary to turn it on its hinges would be likely to pull down the square stone-built pillars, to the detriment of the two stone lionesses which grin with a doubtful carnivorous affability above a coat of arms surmounting each of the pillars.
Page 164 - ... There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work," he said to himself; "the natur o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change. The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy; and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o...