St. Nicholas, Volume 20Mary Mapes Dodge Scribner & Company, 1893 |
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ACROSTIC Alec asked aunt ayah Beard beautiful Beniah Bird blackfellows boarders boat Bob McCracken boys bushes Caliph called camp Charlock Christmas cried CROSS-WORDS dark DEAR ST dingoes dogs door E. W. Kemble Edgar Ethelred exclaimed eyes face father feet fire friends Gaifar Giant girl glacier glad gone ground hand head heard heart Helen Helen Gordon Holly-berry horse Hugh Jack John Kendrick Bangs kangaroo KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN knew lady laughed letters live looked Louis Loeb Mama miles Miss Mistletoe morning mother never NICHOLAS night Oliver OLIVER HERFORD once Polly Polly's pretty Prince Cam ride Santa Claus seemed ship shouted side Sir Frederick smile soon spear stood sure tell thee things thought told tree uncle Vizir voice walked walrus woods young
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Page 426 - T'HE SON of GOD goes forth to war, A kingly crown to gain, His blood-red banner streams afar ; Who follows in His train? Who best can drink His cup of woe, Triumphant over pain, Who patient bears his cross below, He follows in His train.
Page 630 - We were entertained with all love and kindness, and with as much bounty (after their manner) as they could possibly devise. We found the people most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as live after the manner of the golden age.
Page 429 - With mittened hands, and caps drawn low, To guard our necks and ears from snow, We cut the solid whiteness through. And, where the drift was deepest, made A...
Page 349 - We are idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. We do not believe there is any force in to-day to rival or re-create that beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent where once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover, and nerve us again. We cannot again find aught so dear, so sweet, so graceful. But we sit and weep in vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, "Up and onward for...
Page 350 - ... living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character. It permits or constrains the formation of new acquaintances, and the reception of new influences that prove of the first importance to the next years ; and the man or woman who would have remained a sunny...
Page 350 - ... the man or woman who would have remained a sunny garden flower, with no room for its roots and too much sunshine for its head, by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener, is made the banian of the forest, yielding shade and fruit to wide neighborhoods of men.
Page 576 - There is one good tavern about forty rods from the Capitol, and several other houses are built or erecting} but I do not see how the members of Congress can possibly secure lodgings, unless they will consent to live like scholars in a college or monks in a monastery, crowded ten or twenty in one house, and utterly secluded from society.
Page 779 - He had no sooner set the cup out of his hand, but a demi-culverin shot struck away the cup and a cooper's plane that stood by the mainmast, and ran out on the other side of the ship ; which nothing dismayed our General, for he ceased not to encourage us, saying, " Fear nothing ! For GOD, who hath preserved me from this shot, will also deliver us from these traitors and villains!
Page 865 - that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Page 628 - The next day there came unto us divers boats, and in one of them the king's brother, accompanied with forty or fifty men, very handsome and goodly people, and in their behavior as mannerly and civil as any of Europe.