 | Thomas N. Brown - 1859 - 360 pages
...one else had ceased to hope, for the sloop with the two stripes of white and the two square-topsails. But months and years passed by, and the white stripes and the square-topsails he never saw. Those who have seen life in its gloomiest aspects, and sorrow in its... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1854 - 600 pages
...old coastline immediately behind my mother's house, that commands a wide reach of the Moray Frith, and to look wistfully out, long after every one else...reader at considerable length, as not only curious in themselves, but as forming a first chapter in the story of my education. And the following stanzas,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1855 - 570 pages
...old coast-line immediately behind my mother's house, that commands a wide reach of the Moray Frith, and to look wistfully out, long after every one else...reader at considerable length, as not only curious in themselves, but as forming a first chapter in the story of my education. And the following stanzas,... | |
 | 1855 - 594 pages
...a wide reach of the Moray Firth, and to look wistfully out — long after every one else had ceaeed to hope — for the sloop with the two stripes of...white stripes and the square topsails I never saw." Fortunately for the orphan, when means of improvement were so entirely cut short, according to ordinary... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1855 - 922 pages
...and slip halfpence into my pockets, never now took any notice of me, or gave rue anything ! . . . . But months and years passed by, and the white stripes and the square topsails I never saw.' — pp. 23, 24. The fatherless boy had the rare happiness of finding, in his two maternal uncles, those... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1857 - 550 pages
...old coast-line immediately behind my mother's house, that commands a wide reach of the Moray Frith, and to look wistfully out, long after every one else...reader at considerable length, as not only curious in themselves, but as forming a first chapter in the story of my education. And the following stanzas,... | |
 | 1857 - 876 pages
...old coast-line immediately behind my mother's house, that commands a wide reach of the Moray Frith, and to look wistfully out, long after every one else...stripes and the square topsails I never saw." The poor Mclv.nl mother picked up a scanty subsist' ence by engaging as a seamstress, anil by assUtnnce... | |
 | Thomas N. Brown - 1858 - 340 pages
...old coast-line immediately behind his mother's house, that commands a wide reach of the Moray Frith, and to look wistfully out, long after every one else...by, and the white stripes and the square topsails he never saw. Those who have seen life in its gloomiest aspects, and sorrow in its saddest forms, have... | |
 | 1858 - 734 pages
...when the search was disappointed, he would climb a grassy knoll, and look out wistfully across the Bay for " the sloop with the two stripes of white and the two square topsails," that he knew well, but was to see no more. That storm had swept the tree of life bare in the budding... | |
 | Thomas N. Brown - 1858 - 368 pages
...one else had ceased to hope, for the sloop with the two stripes of white and the two square-topsails. But months and years passed by, and the white stripes and the square-topsails he never saw. Those who have seen life in its gloomiest aspects, and sorrow in its... | |
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Firth, and to look wistfully out, long after every one else had ceased to hope, for the sloop with the two stripes of white and the two square topsails. But months and years passed by, and the white stripes and the square topsails I never saw. 
