St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks, Volume 55Scribner & Company, 1928 - Children's periodicals |
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... play in silence at their feet , for he knew that unease moved deep in his father's great chest . Then came a day when Gudruna could sit beside her lord no longer , but tossed and tossed upon her bed , with strange color in her face ...
... play in silence at their feet , for he knew that unease moved deep in his father's great chest . Then came a day when Gudruna could sit beside her lord no longer , but tossed and tossed upon her bed , with strange color in her face ...
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... play one off against the other to the ad- vantage of this country . By the time they got through , France was off the continent entirely , Spain had been pushed far to the southwest , and England was confined to Canada . It was ...
... play one off against the other to the ad- vantage of this country . By the time they got through , France was off the continent entirely , Spain had been pushed far to the southwest , and England was confined to Canada . It was ...
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... played pranks with equations , geo- metrical figures , and the functions of trigonometry and calculus . This Charles ... play leap - frog together , where that dignified , stern , and uncom- promising precisian , the multiplica- tion ...
... played pranks with equations , geo- metrical figures , and the functions of trigonometry and calculus . This Charles ... play leap - frog together , where that dignified , stern , and uncom- promising precisian , the multiplica- tion ...
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... play golf , or study to make up that French condition if she were I , she said if I wasn't old enough at fifteen and a half to decide a question like that for myself , I'd better attend a school for deficient children instead of ...
... play golf , or study to make up that French condition if she were I , she said if I wasn't old enough at fifteen and a half to decide a question like that for myself , I'd better attend a school for deficient children instead of ...
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... playing for the team , " he began . " But if I could do your farm work while you took the time to play football , then we'd both be do- ing all we could to help the team win , " he finished , sincerely . " It's a peach of a cup ...
... playing for the team , " he began . " But if I could do your farm work while you took the time to play football , then we'd both be do- ing all we could to help the team win , " he finished , sincerely . " It's a peach of a cup ...
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Page 207 - and that the following Is, to the beat of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and If a dally paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown In the above caption, required by the Act of August 24. 1912. embodied In section 443, Postal LAWS and Regulations, printed on the
Page 207 - 2. That the owners are: (Give name and addresses of Individual owners, or. If a corporation, give Its name and the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of the total amount of stock.) Owners,
Page 252 - If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on
Page 119 - For the beauty of the earth, For the beauty of the skies, For the love which from our birth Over and above us lies, Lord of all, to thee we raise This our hymn of grateful praise.
Page 433 - discovers a deposit of guano on any island, rock, or key, not within the lawful jurisdiction of any other government, and not occupied by the citizens of any other government, and takes peaceable possession thereof and occupies the same, such
Page 317 - The commissariat failed miserably, perhaps dishonestly, to relieve the desperate want. Two days before Christmas there was "not a single hoof of any kind to slaughter, and not more than twenty-five barrels of flour." Men died by the score from starvation.
Page 414 - For my part, I like a good hearty funeral as well as anything. You've as splendid victuals and drink as at other parties, and even better, and it don't wear your legs to stumps in talking over a poor feller's ways, as it do to stand up in
Page 463 - A shaded lamp and a waving blind, And the beat of a clock from a distant floor; On this scene enter—winged, horned, and spined— A longlegs, a moth, and a dumbledore; While 'mid my page there idly stands A sleepy fly that rubs its hands.
Page 318 - Smoke. What have you got for Breakfast, Lads? 'Fire Cake and Water, Sir.' The Lord send that our Commissary of Purchases may live on Fire Cake & Water till their glutted Gutts are turned to Pasteboard." He admonishes: "Ye who Eat Pumpkin Pie and Roast Turkies— and yet Curse fortune for using you ill—Curse her no more—least she reduce
Page 414 - She must know by this time whether she's to go up or down, poor woman." "What was her age?" "Not more than seven or eight and twenty, by candle-light. But Lord! by day 'a was forty if 'a were an hour." "Ay, night-time or day-time makes a difference of twenty years to rich feymels,