Tangles and Tales ...Saunders, Otley, 1865 - 401 Seiten |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 92
Seite 2
... took her seat at the next little table to my own , and we were alone in the room . Presently , the waiter brought the inevitable ham and eggs , which always make their appearance at an English hotel breakfast . She questioned him with a ...
... took her seat at the next little table to my own , and we were alone in the room . Presently , the waiter brought the inevitable ham and eggs , which always make their appearance at an English hotel breakfast . She questioned him with a ...
Seite 9
... took her seat at the next little table to my own , and we were alone in the room . Presently , the waiter brought the inevitable ham and eggs , which always make their appearance at an English hotel breakfast . She questioned him with a ...
... took her seat at the next little table to my own , and we were alone in the room . Presently , the waiter brought the inevitable ham and eggs , which always make their appearance at an English hotel breakfast . She questioned him with a ...
Seite 22
... took place in the evening at the house of Père Babillot , and to which Cherizette was frequently a listener , more in the hope and expecta- tion of gaining occasionally some knowledge of her lover's movements , than from any other cause ...
... took place in the evening at the house of Père Babillot , and to which Cherizette was frequently a listener , more in the hope and expecta- tion of gaining occasionally some knowledge of her lover's movements , than from any other cause ...
Seite 38
... took care that political prisoners should not have to complain of undue severity at his hands . Since , of course , he had previously had some acquaintance with Charolard , he treated him with the greatest kindness , and ordinarily sent ...
... took care that political prisoners should not have to complain of undue severity at his hands . Since , of course , he had previously had some acquaintance with Charolard , he treated him with the greatest kindness , and ordinarily sent ...
Seite 60
... took place and repartee had to be given , the further contradictions of the bystanders were cut short by such a furious rat a tat tara , and tanter o rara o rara , that no one thought of persisting . A lad ascended the vehicle for the ...
... took place and repartee had to be given , the further contradictions of the bystanders were cut short by such a furious rat a tat tara , and tanter o rara o rara , that no one thought of persisting . A lad ascended the vehicle for the ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
agreeable Alphonse amidst amongst appeared arrived averni Baldrick beautiful Bodlondeb brother carriage Cherizette coffee companion conversation course Dalrymple dark dark arch dear door Dowsbury dress endeavour entered excitement expression eyes face fear feeling followed Forest Lodge fresh gentleman Girondist glance Golden Eagle guardian gunpowder tea hactive hand happy heard heart hills hope Hôtel de France hour Isola Madre journey kind lady Lascar laugh leave Lenette letter Leytonstow light London look Luigi Mademoiselle de Ruisseau Melanie Melanie's mind Monsieur Leroux morning mother Move heart mystery never night ostler Paris passed Pierre Durand pleasant poor post 8vo quiet Rawlins recollect replied road Robespierre Roselli round seemed Seyton Skamp soon Spriggs stereoscopic strange surprise tell terrible things thought tion took turned village waiting watch wild wind window wonder young girl
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 88 - A something, light as air ; a look, A word unkind or wrongly taken : Oh ! love, that tempests never shook, A breath, a touch like this hath shaken...
Seite 70 - O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear...
Seite 155 - ... While winter winds shall blow, To breathe and smile upon you soon again. The sun has hid its rays These many days ; Will dreary hours never leave the earth ? O doubting heart ! The stormy clouds on high Veil the same sunny sky, That soon (for spring is nigh) Shall wake the summer into golden mirth. Fair hope is dead, and light Is quenched in night. What sound can break the silence of despair ? O doubting heart ! Thy sky is overcast, Yet stars shall rise at last, Brighter for darkness past, And...
Seite 51 - And say, without our hopes, without our fears, Without the home that plighted love endears, Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh ! what were man ? — a world without a sun.
Seite 183 - What is the world to them, Its pomp, its pleasure, and its nonsense all! Who in each other clasp whatever fair High fancy forms, and lavish hearts can wish; Something than beauty dearer, should they look Or on the mind, or mind-illumin'd face — Truth, goodness, honour, harmony, and love, The richest bounty of indulgent Heaven.
Seite 303 - TORRENS— THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE RIGHT HON. SIR JAMES RG GRAHAM, Bart., GCB, MP By TORRENS McCULLAGH TORRENS, late MP, Author of the "Life of Sheil," &c. 2 vols., 8vo, price 16s. each. TRAVELS IN LADAK, TARTARY, AND KASHMIR. By Lieut. -Col. TORRENS, 23rd Royal Welsh Fusileers. Second Edition, 1 vol., 8vo, beautifully illustrated. 28s. VERNEY— THE SHANNON'S BRIGADE IN INDIA. Being some account of Sir William Peel's Naval Brigade in the Indian Campaign of 1857—1858.
Seite 160 - A hundred, a thousand to one; even so; Not a hope in the world remained: The swarming, howling wretches below Gained and gained and gained. Skene looked at his pale young wife: — "Is the time come?" — "The time is come!" — Young, strong, and so full of life: The agony struck them dumb. Close his arm about her now, Close her cheek to his, Close the pistol to her brow — God forgive them this! "Will it hurt much?" — "No, mine own: I wish I could bear the pang for both.
Seite 193 - Keep not standing fixed and rooted, Briskly venture, briskly roam ; Head and hand, where'er thou foot it, And stout heart are still at home. " In what land the sun does visit, Brisk are we, whate'er betide : To give space for wandering is it That the world was made so wide.
Seite 190 - Sir," replied the Spanish governor : " if we had taken you in fair war at sea, or approaching our coast with hostile intentions, your ship would then have been a prize, and your people prisoners ; but when, distressed by a tempest, you come into our ports for the...
Seite 88 - A breath, a touch like this hath shaken. And ruder words will soon rush in To spread the breach that words begin; And eyes forget the gentle ray They wore in courtship's smiling day; And voices lose the tone that shed A tenderness round all they said; Till fast declining, one by one, The sweetnesses of love are gone...