Good words for the young, ed. by N. Macleod, Volume 2Norman Macleod 1869 |
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Common terms and phrases
Allister answered arms asked baby beautiful began birds blue brown butterfly called caterpillar child Clouded Sulphur colour cottage creature cried Croggan dark Daventry dear Demophoon Diamond door eyes face fairy father feet fellow felt flowers girl give grass green hand head hear heard heart horse Jack JOHN HULLAH Kelpie Kirsty kiss knew larvæ laugh legs look mahout Mamma Meadow Brown moon morning mother Nannie never night North Wind once Pallidina Pauline Philarete poor pretty Prince Purple Hairstreaks Ranald RANALD BANNERMAN'S BOYHOOD rose round seemed side sing sleep smile Snow soon stood story sweet talk tell there's thing thought told took trees Turkey turned Ursula voice walk watching White's Thrush William Butterfield wings woman wood young
Popular passages
Page 162 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Page 532 - Where did you get that little tear? I found it waiting when I got here. What makes your forehead so smooth and high? A soft hand stroked it as I went by.
Page 83 - A land of love and a land of light, Withouten sun, or moon, or night ; Where the river swa'da living stream, And the light a pure celestial beam ; The land of vision, it would seem, A still, an everlasting dream.
Page 83 - For Kilmeny had been she knew not where, And Kilmeny had seen what she could not declare ; Kilmeny had been where the cock never crew, Where the rain never fell, and the wind never blew. But...
Page 551 - Help the weak if you are strong, Love the old if you are young ; . Own a fault if you are wrong, If you're angry hold your tongue. In each duty Lies a beauty, If your eyes you do not shut, Just as surely And securely As a kernel in a nut.
Page 302 - I don't know what a riddle is," said Diamond. "It's something that means something else, and you've got to find out what the something else is." Mr. Raymond liked the old-fashioned riddle best, and had written a few — one of which he now read. I have only one foot, but thousands of toes; My one foot stands, but never goes. I have many arms, and they're mighty all; And hundreds of fingers, large and small. From the ends of my fingers my beauty grows. I breathe with my hair, and I drink with my toes....
Page 551 - WHATSOE'ER you find to do, Do it, boys, with all your might ! Never be a little true, Or a little in the right. Trifles even Lead to heaven, Trifles make the life of man ; So in all things, Great or small things, Be as thorough as you can.
Page 532 - Feet, whence did you come, you darling things ? from the same box as the cherubs' wings. How did they all come to be you ? God thought about me, and so I grew.
Page 159 - ... much bigger than keyholes) full of curiosities. He has got a piece of mistletoe, and wants to know what it is ; and he has seen a woodpecker, and a wheatear, and gathered strange flowers...
Page 159 - While many a vacant, thoughtless youth is whirled throughout Europe, without gaining a single idea worth crossing a street for, the observing eye and inquiring mind, find matter of improvement and delight, in every ramble in town and country. Do you then William, continue to make use of your eyes; and you Robert, learn that eyes were given you to use.