Chimney-corner StoriesGall & Inglis, 1861 - 280 páginas |
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ADVENTURES OF NEDDY Alexander Julius Cæsar Alphonso animal Atahualpha beans began Boetes Bosphorus Button Caliph called Castle Craig Clinker Council of Ten dark decoy delighted dinner doge Doge of Venice Dolittle donkey door Dowlas eagle ears eyes Faliero father fell felt followed gave gazelle Giacomo Gibbo Giles gipsey green hand head heard hour Huascar Jacopo knew lady Lascaris laundress leaped legs little boy little girl Little John lived Lobenski looked magistrate Marino Faliero master monk morning mother mountains NEDDY BRAY Neddy's Neff never Newington Green night Nimrod Alexander Julius palace Paul person pigs pine-apples Pizarro poor old Popinjoy pound prisoners Robert Robin Green Robin Hood rock round scampered Selina side Smug soon spot stones stood straw Swaggerbags thing thou thought took town Venice village wind woman WONDERFUL AND EXTRAORDINARY young friends
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Página 93 - And behold, it shall come to pass that my servants shall be sent forth to the east and to the west, to the north and to the south; 64.
Página 249 - Most potent, grave, and reverend seigniors, My very noble and approved good masters, That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true ; true, I have married her ; The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the set phrase of peace; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Página 37 - Soon after, terrible accounts came in of the woful damage done by the ferocious beast. The cook-maid who had been suffered to go out that day, to see her grandmother, who was dying, as she said, — although it was herself who was dying to go to the fair, — returned, supported by the washerwoman, whom she met on the way ; and when she reached the kitchen, fell down in a swoon. As soon as she came to herself, she gave her version of the disaster. " Oh, Sir," said she to the worthy magistrate who...
Página 218 - Robin bethought him on this of the knight and his security : — I have great marvel, then Robin Hood said, And all this livelong day, I dread our Ladye is wroth with me, She hath sent me not my pay. Have no doubt, master, said Little John, Ye have no need, I say, This monk hath got it, I dare well swear, For he is of her abbaye. " That is well said, John,
Página 213 - The saide Robert entertained an hundred tall men and good archers with such spoiles and thefts as he got, upon whom four hundred (were they ever so strong) durst not give the onset.
Página 129 - ... miles from the coast, and rising gradually to the Andes, of which, in fact, they are the lower steps. This latter region contains lofty plains, from 8000 to 10,000 feet above the level of the sea, and numerous deep valleys.
Página 17 - ... freest Country in the World ; but one Monday morning he was missing. The donkey that could not be sold, nor given away, had found out the way to be stolen. It was just like Neddy. The gentleman who had taken a fancy to Neddy, was a gipsy, and Neddy was not the only thing he had taken a fancy to in the village.
Página 197 - was from seven to ten inches deep, and the wind, which blew a hurricane, raised and tossed it about in clouds. Not a trace could be seen of the paths, and I was six hours performing twelve miles. But this was the only bad journey that I have yet made in the Alps, and notwithstanding the exposure, I arrived perfectly well at San Veran, and held a meeting in the evening. The next day I preached in the church, catechised in the afternoon, and assembled...
Página 26 - The sounds that broke upon Neddy's ears were the strains of two sailors, who had just been paid off from the " Arethusa." They were singing — " Rule, Britannia ! Britannia rule the waves ! For Britons never, never, never shall be slaves." ; "No," said one, "never — as long as we have a shot in the locker.
Página 217 - ... task for three outlaws : it was ventured on without hesitation. " My brethren twain, said Little John, We are no more but three ; But an we bring them not to dinner, Full wroth will our master be. Now bend your bows, said Little John, Make all yon press to stand ; The foremost monk, his life and his death, Is closed in my hand."