Heroines that Every Child Should Know: Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All AgesHamilton Wright Mabie, Kate Stephens Grosset & Dunlap, 1908 - 281 pages A collection of biographical sketches of great heroines from ancient and modern times. |
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... thee to have kept Admetus from his doom ? Dost thou keep watch and ward over this woman with thine arrows and thy bow ? " " Fear not , " the god made answer , " I have justice on my side . " " If thou hast justice , what need of thy bow ...
... thee to have kept Admetus from his doom ? Dost thou keep watch and ward over this woman with thine arrows and thy bow ? " " Fear not , " the god made answer , " I have justice on my side . " " If thou hast justice , what need of thy bow ...
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... thee not , though I die for thee , giving myself for my husband . And thee another wife shall possess , not more true than I am , but , maybe , more fortunate ! " And after she had left the chamber , she turned to it again and again ...
... thee not , though I die for thee , giving myself for my husband . And thee another wife shall possess , not more true than I am , but , maybe , more fortunate ! " And after she had left the chamber , she turned to it again and again ...
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... thee before I die what I would have thee do . Thou knowest how I have given my life for thy life . For when I might have lived , and had for my husband any prince of Thessaly that I would , and dwelt here in wealth and royal state , yet ...
... thee before I die what I would have thee do . Thou knowest how I have given my life for thy life . For when I might have lived , and had for my husband any prince of Thessaly that I would , and dwelt here in wealth and royal state , yet ...
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... thee go ; nor would the watch - dog of Pluto , nor Charon that ferrieth the dead , have hindered me but that I had brought thee to the light . But do thou wait for me there , for there will I dwell with thee ; and when I die they shall ...
... thee go ; nor would the watch - dog of Pluto , nor Charon that ferrieth the dead , have hindered me but that I had brought thee to the light . But do thou wait for me there , for there will I dwell with thee ; and when I die they shall ...
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... thee , bringeth thee to this land ? " " I am bound on an errand for King Eurystheus ; even to bring back to him horses of King Diomed . ” " How wilt thou do this ? Dost thou not know this Diomed ? " " I know naught of him , nor of his ...
... thee , bringeth thee to this land ? " " I am bound on an errand for King Eurystheus ; even to bring back to him horses of King Diomed . ” " How wilt thou do this ? Dost thou not know this Diomed ? " " I know naught of him , nor of his ...
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Admetus Alcestis answered Antigone arms army bade boat brought Calchas called Captain Smith Charles chief child cried crown daughter dead death deed Domremy door dress English Eteocles Eustochium eyes Farne Islands father fear fell Flora Florence Florence Nightingale France friends gave girl Girondists God's Grace Græme hands hast hath head heard heart heroic honour hospital hour husband Indians Jacobins Jamestown Jerome Joan Joan's John S. C. Abbott King Kingsburgh knew Lady Jane Lady Jane Grey letter lived looked Lord Macdonald Madame Roland Maid maiden mother never night Nightingale noble nurses Orleans passed Paula Phlippon Pocahontas Polynices poor Powhatan pray prayer Prince prison Queen replied sent sick Sister Dora smile soldiers sorrow stood suffer sword tell thee thing thou wilt throne told Tomocomo took voice Walsall Werowocomoco wife woman women words young
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Page 262 - I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Page 277 - WHENE'ER a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts, in glad surprise, To higher levels rise. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares.
Page 279 - A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood. Nor even shall be wanting here The palm, the lily, and the spear, * The symbols that of yore Saint Filomena bore.
Page 255 - They climbed the steep ascent of heaven Through peril, toil, and pain : O God, to us may grace be given To follow in their train.
Page 143 - I pray you all, good Christian people, to bear me witness that I die a true Christian woman, and that I do look to be saved by no other mean but only by the mercy of God, in the blood of his only Son Jesus Christ...
Page 56 - LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Page 135 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 276 - Another extraordinary fallacy is the dread of night air. What air can we breathe at night but night air ? The choice is between pure night air from without and foul night air from within. Most people prefer the latter. An unaccountable choice. What will they say if it is proved to be true that fully one-half of all the disease we suffer from is occasioned by people sleeping with their windows shut ? An open window most nights in the year can never hurt any one.
Page 136 - ... perfectly, as God made the world; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips...
Page 127 - And the traitor looked on the King's spent strength And said : " Have I kept my word ? — Yea, King, the mortal pledge that I gave ? No black friar's shrift thy soul shall have, But the shrift of this red sword...