 Struggled together like foes in a burning city. Behind him, Nodding and mocking along the wall with gestures fantastic, Darted his own huge shadow, and vanished away into darkness. Faces, clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his armchair Laughed in...  Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie - Page 16by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 102 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Georgia Alexander, Grace Alexander - 1909 - 392 pages
...with gestures fantastic, Darted his own huge shadow, and vanished away into darkness. Faces, clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his armchair Laughed...their Norman orchards and bright Burgundian vineyards. From "Evangeline." Abridged. THE SACRIFICE OF MARCUS CURTIUS BY TITUS LIVIUS LIVY Translation of Alfred... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1909 - 426 pages
...with gestures fantastic, Darted his own huge shadow, and vanished away into darkness. Faces, clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair Laughed...of song the old man sang, and carols of Christmas, 5 Such as at home, in the olden time, his fathers before him Sang in their Norman orchards and bright... | |
 | Hanson Hart Webster - 1909 - 480 pages
...with gestures fantastic, Darted his own huge shadow, and vanished away into darkness. Faces, clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his armchair Laughed...flickering light, and the pewter plates on the dresser 205 Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Fragments of song the old man... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1909 - 428 pages
...farmer 25 Sat in his elbow-chair, and watched how the flames and the smoke-wreaths Faces, clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair Laughed in the nickering light, and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of... | |
 | 1910 - 444 pages
...with gestures fantastic. Darted his own huge shadow, and vanished away into darkness. Faces, clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his armchair Laughed...flickering light, and the pewter plates on the dresser 205 Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Fragments of song the old man... | |
 | 1910 - 408 pages
...with gestures fantastic, Darted his own huge shadow, and vanished away into darkness. Faces, clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair Laughed...flickering light, and the pewter plates on the dresser 5 Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Fragments of song the old man... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1912 - 696 pages
...shadow, and vanished away into darkness. Faces, clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair 185 Laughed in the flickering light; and the pewter plates...their Norman orchards and bright Burgundian vineyards. 190 Close at her father's side was the gentle Evangeline seated, Spinning flax for the loom, that stood... | |
 | HENRY FROWDE - 1912 - 1072 pages
...with gestures fantastic, Darted his own huge shadow, and vanished away into darkness. Faces, clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair Laughed...of song the old man sang, and carols of Christmas, Surh as at home, in the olden time, his fathers before him Sang in their Norman orchards and bright... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1914 - 734 pages
...with gestures fantastic, Darted his own huge shadow, and vanished away into darkness. Faces, clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair Laughed...before him Sang in their Norman orchards and bright Biirguudian vineyards. Close at her father's side was the gentle Evangeline seated, Spinning flax for... | |
 | 1914 - 414 pages
...sees " the flames and the smoke wreaths struggling together like foes in a burning city," and even " the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame as shields of armies the sunshine." In the midst of all her happiness, when Evangeline thought of her lover, " at times a feeling of sadness... | |
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