Good WordsA. Strahan and Company, 1879 |
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... eyes filled with tears . If she had not understood her husband , she had loved him - certainly , and more perhaps after his death than before it . " Girls , for all your persuasions , I would never have put off my black gowns if it ...
... eyes filled with tears . If she had not understood her husband , she had loved him - certainly , and more perhaps after his death than before it . " Girls , for all your persuasions , I would never have put off my black gowns if it ...
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... eye for hours ; but the prevailing feature in each successive landscape has a distinct charm , if only there was not so ... eyes are luminous ; there are other races , not ill - looking , with cheek bones as high ; the large loose mouth ...
... eye for hours ; but the prevailing feature in each successive landscape has a distinct charm , if only there was not so ... eyes are luminous ; there are other races , not ill - looking , with cheek bones as high ; the large loose mouth ...
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... eyes . No such sight , visionary yet real , new yet infinitely beautiful , had ever yet burst upon his eyes ; eyes so like his father's - dreamy , tender , passionate , intense - eyes which , from baby- hood , had seemed to foretell the ...
... eyes . No such sight , visionary yet real , new yet infinitely beautiful , had ever yet burst upon his eyes ; eyes so like his father's - dreamy , tender , passionate , intense - eyes which , from baby- hood , had seemed to foretell the ...
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... eyes met . Both were full of tears : " At the first sight They have changed eyes . " People dispute this truth , and yet it is a truth to some people , and under some cir- cumstances . Startled to a degree that almost annoyed him ...
... eyes met . Both were full of tears : " At the first sight They have changed eyes . " People dispute this truth , and yet it is a truth to some people , and under some cir- cumstances . Startled to a degree that almost annoyed him ...
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... eyes , the very same eyes which had filled with tears at the sunset beauty of the Jungfrau ! Once more the young man started , abso- lutely started . He seemed taken - nay , clutched , by the very hand of destiny itself . For on ...
... eyes , the very same eyes which had filled with tears at the sunset beauty of the Jungfrau ! Once more the young man started , abso- lutely started . He seemed taken - nay , clutched , by the very hand of destiny itself . For on ...
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Popular passages
Page 13 - My words fly up, my thoughts remain below : Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go.
Page 13 - And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people ? why is it that thou hast sent me ? for since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people ; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.
Page 457 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 541 - I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am ! Who will deliver me from this body of death...
Page 300 - And the sons of the prophets that were at Beth-el came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day ? And he said, Yea, I know it ; hold ye your peace.
Page 230 - Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from «• following after thee, for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 304 - Behold my servant, whom I uphold ; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth ; I have put my spirit upon him : he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
Page 301 - And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Page 141 - Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go ? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.
Page 371 - Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see : She has deceived her father, and may thee.