 | Sarah Louise Arnold, George Lyman Kittredge, John Hays Gardiner - 1908 - 336 pages
...village passed A youth, who bore 'mid snow and ice A banner with the strange device — Excelsior ! 8. Hearty and hale was he, an oak that is covered with snowflakes. 9. Once in an ancient city, whose name I no longer remember, Raised aloft on a column, a brazen statue... | |
 | Georgia Alexander - 1909 - 392 pages
...village, and nearer the Basin of Minas, Benedict Belief ontaine, the wealthiest farmer of Grand-Pre, Dwelt on his goodly acres; and with him, directing...as brown as the oak-leaves. Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the way-side,... | |
 | Georgia Alexander, Grace Alexander - 1909 - 392 pages
...village, and nearer the Basin of Minas, Benedict Bellefontaine, the wealthiest farmer of Grand-Pre, Dwelt on his goodly acres; and with him, directing...as brown as the oak-leaves. Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the way-side,... | |
 | Hanson Hart Webster - 1909 - 480 pages
...Lord to the Virgin Mary. It was introduced into France in its modern form in the sixteenth century. Stalworth and stately in form was the man of seventy...locks, and his cheeks as brown as the oak-leaves. Ifair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers ; es Black were her eyes as the berry that... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1909 - 428 pages
...village, and nearer the Basin of Minas, Benedict Bellefontaine, the wealthiest farmer of Grand-Pre, Dwelt on his goodly acres; and with him, directing...Evangeline lived, his child, and the pride of the village. 20 Stalworth and stately in form was the man of seventy winters; Hearty and hale was he, an oak that... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1909 - 426 pages
...village, and nearer the Basin of Minas, Benedict Bellefontaine, the wealthiest farmer of Grand-Pre, Dwelt on his goodly acres; and with him, directing...Evangeline lived, his child, and the pride of the village. 20 Stalworth and stately in form was the man of seventy winters; Hearty and hale was he, an oak that... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1910 - 686 pages
...nearer the Basin of Minas, Benedict Bellefontaine, the л 4Ífarmer of (i rand-Pré, 73 Dwelt on bis goodly acres ; and with him, directing his household,...as brown as the oak-leaves. Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside,... | |
 | 1910 - 444 pages
...wealthiest fanner of Grand-Pre, Dwelt on his goodly acres ; and with him, directing . his household, eo Gentle Evangeline lived, his child, and the pride...as brown as the oak-leaves. Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers ; es Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the... | |
 | 1910 - 408 pages
...village, and nearer the Basin of Minas, 20 Benedict Bellefontaine, the wealthiest farmer of Grand-Pre, Dwelt on his goodly acres; and with him directing...hale was he, an oak that is covered with snow-flakes; 23 White as the snow were his locks, and his cheeks as brown as the oak-leaves. Fair was she to behold,... | |
 | 1910 - 532 pages
...Bellefontaine, the wealthiest farmer of Gran<Pre, Dwelt on his goodly acres; and with him, directing Ms household, Gentle Evangeline lived, his child, and the pride of the village. Stalwart and stately in form was the man of seventy winters ; Hearty and hale was he, an oak that is... | |
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Hearty and hale was he, an oak that is covered with snow-flakes; White as the snow were his locks, and his cheeks as brown as the oak-leaves. 
