 She would speak to one and nod and smile to as many more ; but she could not do it to all, you know. We lay there by hundreds ; but we could kiss her shadow as it fell, and lay our heads on the pillow again, content.  Outlines of nursing history - Page 65by Minnie Goodnow - 1916 - 370 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens - 1855 - 296 pages
...pass — ' She would speak to one and another, and nod and smile to a many more ; but she couldn't do it to all, you know, for we lay there by hundreds...fell, and lay our heads on the pillow again content.' " And his correspondent then very justly remarked — " What poetry there is in these men ! " And again... | |
 | 1856 - 606 pages
...her pass. 'She would speak to one and another, and nod and smile to as many more n but she couldn't do it to all, you know, for we lay there by hundreds, but we could see her shadow as it fell, and lay our heads on the pillow, again, content.' " Mrs. Willoughby Moore... | |
 | 1857 - 904 pages
...even to see Florence pass. She would speak to one and to another, and nod and smile to as many more ; we lay there by hundreds ; but we could kiss her shadow...fell, and lay our heads on the pillow again content.' What poetry there is iu these men ! I think I told you of another who said : 'Before she came, there... | |
 | 1858 - 866 pages
...even to see Florence pass. 'She would speak to one and to another, and nod and smile to as many more; we lay there by hundreds; but we could kiss her shadow...fell, and lay our heads on the pillow again content.' What poetry there is in these men ! I think I told you of another, who said : ' Before she came there... | |
 | Ellen Creathorne Clayton - 1859 - 66 pages
...fellow, 'writing home, " and nod and smile to a many more ; but she couldn't do it to all, you know. "We lay there by hundreds ; but we could kiss her...fell, and lay our heads on the pillow again, content." In her rounds, to one she would administer •words of consolation and hope, to anather teach resignation,... | |
 | Thomas Carter - 1860 - 742 pages
...would speak to one and to another, and nod and smile to a many more ; but she couldn't do it to all, as you know, for we lay there by hundreds ; but we could kiss her shadow as it fell, and lay our heads ou the pillow again, content." Britain has welcomed home with open hand Her gallant soldiers to their... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - 1860 - 282 pages
...another, and nod and smile to a many more ; but she could not do it to all, you know; we lay there in hundreds; but we could kiss her shadow as it fell, and lay our heads on the pillow again, content.' What poetry there is in these men ! I think I told you of another who said, ' Before she came, there... | |
 | Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen - 1861 - 418 pages
...and when the eye saw her, it gave witness of her." " We lay there by hundreds," writes one soldier, " but we could kiss her shadow as it fell, and lay our heads on the pillow again, content." Let no one, after this expression, doubt that poetry is the language of feeling, and is restricted... | |
 | Augusta Blanche Berard - 1862 - 468 pages
...smile to as many more ; — but she couldn't do it to all, you know; we lay there by hundreds; but tee could kiss her shadow as it fell, and lay our heads on our pillows again content !" " On England's annals, through the long Hereafter of her speech and song,... | |
 | James Et Al Parton - 1868 - 656 pages
...to one and to another, and nod and smile to as many more; but she couldn't do it to all, you know; we lay there by hundreds; but we could kiss her shadow...fell, and lay our heads on the pillow again content." Another soldier said : " Before she came, there was such cussin' and swearin'; and after that it was... | |
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