Purple SpringsHoughton Mifflin, 1922 - 335 pagine |
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Pagina 308 - O that will be glory for me, glory for me, glory for me; When by His grace I shall look on His face, That will be glory, be glory for me.
Pagina 106 - O Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love in all thy sons command; With glowing hearts we see thee rise, The true North strong and free, And stand on guard, O Canada, We stand on guard for thee.
Pagina 106 - God keep our land glorious and free! O Canada, we stand on guard for thee, O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
Pagina 93 - He was a stout man, with a square face, and small, beady black eyes and an aggressive manner; a man who felt sure of himself; who knew he was the centre of his own circle. There was a well-fed, complacent look about him too which left no doubt that he was satisfied with things as they were — and would be deeply resentful of change. There was still in his countenance some trace of his ancestor's belief in the Divine right of kings! It showed in his narrow, thought-proof forehead, and a certain indescribable...
Pagina 146 - Casey Jones! Mounted to the cabin, Casey Jones! With his orders in his hand, Casey Jones! Mounted to the cabin And took his farewell trip to that promised land.
Pagina 151 - Say Au Revoir, but not goodbye, The past is dead, love cannot die; 'Twere better far, had we not met; I loved you then, I love you yet.
Pagina 331 - It's all settled — I'll just marry you without being asked. The covenant between you and me was made before the foundations of the world. You're my man. I knew you the moment I saw you. So when I say, 'I, Pearl, take you, Horace,' it's not a new contract — it's just a ratification of the old.
Pagina 73 - What had happened was that some had taken more than their share, and that was why others had to go short, and the strange part of it all was that the hoggish ones were the exalted ones, to whom many bowed...
Pagina 72 - ... experienced in thinking of her parents and their days of struggling. They had been and were, the real Empire-builders who subdued the soil and made it serve human needs, enduring hardships and hunger and cold and bitter discouragements, always with heroism and patience. The farm on which they now lived, had been abandoned, deserted, given up for a bad job, and her people had redeemed it, and were making it one of the best in the country ! Every farm in the community was made more valuable because...
Pagina 282 - Another trouble is that if men start to vote they will vote too much. Politics unsettles men, and unsettled men mean unsettled bills — broken furniture, broken vows and divorce. It has been charged that politics is corrupt.