Guild Court: A London StorySampson Low, 1881 - 331 sider Guild Court is the 1869 novel by the famous Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister, George MacDonald. The story follows two families through a series of interconnected tales and several twists of fortune. A quaint story with unforgettable characters that made George MacDonald the great author he was know as. |
Inni boken
Resultat 6-10 av 61
Side 18
... seemed unaware of the old woman's entrance . When she spoke to her , she started and rose . 66 So you're come home , Lucy , and searching the fire for a wishing - cap , as usual ! " said the old lady , cheerily . The girl did not reply ...
... seemed unaware of the old woman's entrance . When she spoke to her , she started and rose . 66 So you're come home , Lucy , and searching the fire for a wishing - cap , as usual ! " said the old lady , cheerily . The girl did not reply ...
Side 19
... seemed to have had nothing at all to do with this condition of them . " Well , grannie , why should you be so cross with me for liking him , when you like him just as much yourself ? " said Lucy , archly . " Cross with you , child ! I'm ...
... seemed to have had nothing at all to do with this condition of them . " Well , grannie , why should you be so cross with me for liking him , when you like him just as much yourself ? " said Lucy , archly . " Cross with you , child ! I'm ...
Side 23
... seemed far more difficult of attain- ment . But John Boxall was willing enough to part with his small patrimony - for he was sick of it - provided he had a good sum of ready money , and the house with its garden and a paddock , by way ...
... seemed far more difficult of attain- ment . But John Boxall was willing enough to part with his small patrimony - for he was sick of it - provided he had a good sum of ready money , and the house with its garden and a paddock , by way ...
Side 27
... seemed to say , " I know you want to have a little fun with me by using wrong names for things because I am a little girl , and little girls can be taken in ; but it is of no use with me , though I can enjoy the joke of it . " Lucy ...
... seemed to say , " I know you want to have a little fun with me by using wrong names for things because I am a little girl , and little girls can be taken in ; but it is of no use with me , though I can enjoy the joke of it . " Lucy ...
Side 29
... seemed to have run to hair . A calm keen eye underneath its towering forest , revealed observation and peaceful- ness . He , too , occasionally looked from his work , but only in the act of drawing the horizontal thread , when his eyes ...
... seemed to have run to hair . A calm keen eye underneath its towering forest , revealed observation and peaceful- ness . He , too , occasionally looked from his work , but only in the act of drawing the horizontal thread , when his eyes ...
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
ain't asked began believe better bookseller Boxall Boxall's Cecil Burton child church cloth extra colour counting-house Crown 8vo dark Dolman door doubt Edition eyes face father feel felt Fuller gave gilt edges girl give gone grandmother grannie Guild Court hand head hear heard heart Highbury hope Illustrations John Boxall JULES VERNE Kitely Kitely's knew lady London looked loved Lucy Lucy Lucy's Mary MARY COWDEN CLARKE Mattie Mattie's mean mind Miss Burton Molken Morgenstern morning mother never night Ningpo once poor Poppie Poppie's Potts R. D. BLACKMORE returned Richard Boxall rose Sargent scudded Simon Small post 8vo smile soul Spelt Stopper story sure tailor talk tell there's thing Thomas's thought told took trouble turned vols walked Widdles Worboise word
Populære avsnitt
Side 6 - Familiar Words. An Index Verborum, or Quotation Handbook. Affording an immediate Reference to Phrases and Sentences that have become embedded in the English language. 3rd and enlarged Edition. "The most extensive dictionary of quotation we have met with." — Notes and Queries. Essays by Montaigne. Edited and Annotated by the Author of "The Gentle Life.
Side 91 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise, and true perfection!
Side 6 - The Silent Hour; Essays, Original and Selected. By the Author of
Side 15 - What I did and what I saw. By LM D'ALBERTIS, Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy, Honorary Member and Gold Medallist of the IRG-S., CMZS, &c., &c. In 2 vols., demy 8vo, cloth extra, with Maps, Coloured Plates, and numerous very fine Woodcut Illustrations, 6,2s.
Side 329 - THE BAYARD SERIES, Edited by the late J. HAIN FRISWELL. Comprising Pleasure Books of Literature produced in the Choicest Style as Companionable Volumes at Home and Abroad. "We can hardly imagine better books for boys to read or for men to ponder over.
Side 1 - Child of the Cavern ( The) ; or, Strange Doings Underground. By JULES VERNE. Translated by WHG KINGSTON. Numerous Illustrations. Sq. cr. 8vo, gilt edges, Is.
Side 1 - Books, 2s. 6d. each, Illustrated by CW COPE, RA, T. CRESWICK, RA, E. DUNCAN, BIRKET FOSTER, JC HORSLEY, ARA, G. HICKS, R. REDGRAVE, RA, C. STONEHOUSE, F. TAYLER, G. THOMAS, HJ TOWNSHEND, EH WEHNERT, HARRISON WEIR, &c. Bloomfield's Farmer's Boy. Campbell's Pleasures of Hope. Coleridge's Ancient Mariner. Goldsmith's Deserted Village. Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield. Gray's Elegy in a Churchyard. Keat's Eve of St. Agnes. Milton's L' Allegro. Poetry of Nature. Harrison Weir. Rogers...
Side 329 - Edited by his Son, G. GILBERT SCOTT. With an Introduction by the DEAN OF CHICHESTER, and a Funeral Sermon, preached in Westminster Abbey, by the DEAN OF WESTMINSTER. Also, Portrait on steel from the portrait of the Author by G. RICHMOND, RA I vol., demy 8vo, cloth extra, l8s. rtAKER (Lieut. -Gen. Valentine, Pasha). See "War in •*-* Bulgaria.
Side 25 - Through America ; or, Nine Months in the United States. By WG MARSHALL, MA With nearly 100 Woodcuts of Views of Utah country and the famous Yosemite Valley ; The Giant Trees, New York, Niagara, San Francisco, &c. ; containing a full account of Mormon Life, as noted by the Author during his visits to Salt Lake City in 1878 and 1879.
Side 1 - STONEHOUSE, F. TAYLER, G. THOMAS, HJ TOWNSHEND, EH WEHNERT, HARRISON WEIR, &c. Bloomfield's Farmer's Boy. Campbell's Pleasures of Hope. Coleridge's Ancient Mariner. Goldsmith's Deserted Village. Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield. Gray's Elegy in a Churchyard. Keat's Eve of St. Agnes. Milton's L' Allegro. Poetry of Nature. Harrison Weir. Rogers