Seven DreamersHarper & Brothers, 1890 - 281 páginas |
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... somehow here ; make - believe ones don't . So , with these dreamin ' folks , crops may fail , their creaturs die , their chil- dren dishonor ' em , elections go wrong , and church meetin's get off the right track - every- thing real may ...
... somehow here ; make - believe ones don't . So , with these dreamin ' folks , crops may fail , their creaturs die , their chil- dren dishonor ' em , elections go wrong , and church meetin's get off the right track - every- thing real may ...
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... somehow there's al- lers somethin ' there that expresses my mean- in ' better'n I could put it into talk myself . I'm readin ' it in course , now , and only the other day I come to a place in Isaiah where it treats o ' this , and it ...
... somehow there's al- lers somethin ' there that expresses my mean- in ' better'n I could put it into talk myself . I'm readin ' it in course , now , and only the other day I come to a place in Isaiah where it treats o ' this , and it ...
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... somehow . You've heard him tell about it , haven't you ? Don't you rec❜lect how earnest and excited he'd get , so proud , and yet humble at the same time , tellin ' o ' that awful fight in the night - time , when he couldn't see who he ...
... somehow . You've heard him tell about it , haven't you ? Don't you rec❜lect how earnest and excited he'd get , so proud , and yet humble at the same time , tellin ' o ' that awful fight in the night - time , when he couldn't see who he ...
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... somehow helped ' em along through all the pesterin ' worry and frettin ' trouble o ' this world - I believe , I say , that they're glad too . You'll think I'm no more'n a dreamer myself when I tell you that sometimes INTRODUCTORY . 9.
... somehow helped ' em along through all the pesterin ' worry and frettin ' trouble o ' this world - I believe , I say , that they're glad too . You'll think I'm no more'n a dreamer myself when I tell you that sometimes INTRODUCTORY . 9.
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... somehow made it her own , and drew her to us . I am growing sadly confused , and am quite beyond my depth , I see . You can- not understand , and I cannot put it into better words . But who could see the love that shone in her face when ...
... somehow made it her own , and drew her to us . I am growing sadly confused , and am quite beyond my depth , I see . You can- not understand , and I cannot put it into better words . But who could see the love that shone in her face when ...
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Página 130 - Pond, an' I was settin' in the boat, fixin' my lan'in' net, when I see him on the shore. I think mebbe I'm that James — for that's my given name, ye know, though they allers call me Jimmy — an' then I hear him callin
Página 122 - One that sot everythin' by the water, an' useter go along by the lakes an' ponds, an' sail on 'em, an' talk with the men that was fishin'. An' how the fishermen all liked him, 'nd asked his 'dvice, an' done jest 's he telled 'em about the likeliest places to fish; an...
Página 112 - ... the sweet, pensive strain of white-throat sparrow, and the plash of leaping trout; to see the crystal-clear waters pouring over granite rock, the wonderful purple light upon the mountains, the flash and glint of darting fish, the tender green of early summer in the north country. Fishin" Jimmy's real name was James Whitcher.
Página 1 - It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
Página 112 - Streeter or Mink Pond, through youth, through manhood, on and on into old age, his life had apparently been one long day's fishing — an angler's holiday. Had it been only that ? He had not cared for books, or school, and all efforts to tie him down to study were unavailing. But he knew well the books of running brooks. No dry botanical text-book or manual could have taught him all he now knew of plants and flowers and trees. He did not call the yellow spatterdock Nuphar advena, but he knew its...
Página 131 - I'm waitin'; mebbe he'll larn me some day." He was fond of all living creatures, merciful to all. But his love for our dog Dash became a passion, for Dash was an angler. Who that ever saw him sitting in the boat beside his master, watching with eager eye and whole body trembling with excitement the line as it was cast, the flies as they touched the surface — who can forget old Dash? His fierce excitement at rise of trout, the efforts at self-restraint, the disappointment if the prey escaped, the...