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Boyesen Hjalmar Hjorth - Boyhood In Norway
[ OTHER LITERATURES]
... therefore called a wonder child. Little Carina Holt was the seventh in a family of eight brothers and sisters, but she grew to be six years old before it became generally known that she was a wonder child. Then people came from afar to see her, bringing their sick with ...
Miller Gustavus Hindman - Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted
[ MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
... place on November 15th. She endeavors to have the true date ascertained. The War Office was wrong. He died on the 14th. ``A child six years old stops in the middle of his play and cries out, frightened: ``Mamma, I have seen Mamma.At that moment his mother was dying ...
Wilde Oscar - The Duchess Of Padua
[ POETRY]
... of children stealthily And no word said. THIRD CITIZEN Ay! marry, that is true, My little son died yesternight from hunger; He was but six years old; I am so poor, I cannot bury him. DUKE If you are poor, Are you not blessed in that? Why, poverty Is one ...
Brown William Wells - Clotelle
[ FICTION]
... he had read but a few minutes when he observed a lady, attired in deep black, and leading a boy, apparently some five or six years old, coming up one of the beautiful, winding paths. As the lady's veil was drawn closely over her face, he felt somewhat at liberty ...
Voltaire - Candide
[ FRENCH ESSAYS]
... flood of tears. 'Is it possible you should be the beautiful young princess whom I had the care of bringing up till she was six years old, and who at that tender age promised to be as fair as I now behold you?am the same,I replied. ''My mother ...
Hawthorne Nathaniel - Twice Told Tales
[ FICTION]
... hushed his wailing at once, and turned his face upward to the stranger. It was a pale, bright-eyed countenance, certainly not more than six years old, but sorrow, fear, and want had destroyed much of its infantile expression. The Puritan seeing the boys frightened gaze, and feeling that he ...
Smiles Samuel - Jasmin
[ ENGLISH ESSAYS]
... le poete Jasmin' (Journal politique et litteraire de Lot-et-Garonne). CHAPTER VII. 'THE BLIND GIRL OF CASTEL-CUILLE.Jasmin was now thirty-six years old. He was virtually in the prime of life. He had been dreaming, he had been thinking, for many years, of composing some poems of ...
Dickens Charles - Literary And Social Speeches
[ ENGLISH SPEECHES]
... for juvenile delinquents. You are not exempt here from the honour of saving these poor, neglected, and wretched outcasts. I read of one infant, six years old, who has been twice as many times in the hands of the police as years have passed over his devoted head. These are ...
Tarkington Booth - Alice Adams
[ FICTION]
... that when I want to dance with any girl I need my mother to ask her for me. I really AM more than six years old!" He spoke with too much vehemence, and Mrs. Dowling at once saw how to have her way. As with husbands and wives, so with ...
Schiller Friedrich - The History Of The Thirty Years' War
[ GERMAN MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
... was threatened with ruin, by the spirit of disunion. Gustavus had left no male heir to the crown of Sweden: his daughter Christina, then six years old, was the natural heir. The unavoidable weakness of a regency, suited ill with that energy and resolution, which Sweden would be called upon ...
Hugo Victor - Les Miserables
[ FRENCH FICTION]
... masses I present the visage of one damned. And I accept this isolation of hatred, without hating any one myself. Now I am eighty-six years old; I am on the point of death. What is it that you have come to ask of me?" "Your blessing," said the Bishop. ...

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