 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1857 - 876 pages
...sloop wrecked in 1807. Hugh was then five years of age. " I used to climb day after day/' he says, u up a grassy protuberance of the old coast-line immediately...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... | |
 | 1857 - 782 pages
...then five years of age. " I used to climb day after day," he says, uup a grassy protuberance of tiie old coast-line immediately behind my mother's house,...stripes and the square topsails I never saw." The poor widowed mother picked up a scanty subsistence by engaging as a seamstress, and by assistance from... | |
 | Thomas N. Brown - 1858 - 340 pages
...day after day, he used to climb the grassy protuberance of the old coast-line immediately behind his mother's house, that commands a wide reach of the...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... | |
 | Thomas N. Brown - 1858 - 340 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 - 1859 - 580 pages
...old coast-line immediately behind my mother's house, that commands a wide reach of the Moray Firth, and to look wistfully out, long after every one else...reader at considerable length, as not only curious iu themselves, but as forming a first chapter in the story of my education. And the following stanzas,... | |
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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. 
