Silas MarnerLongmans, Green, 1901 - 224 strán (strany) |
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50 cents Boards Aaron Adam Bede Batherley Brearley School Bryce Cass's chapter child church Cloth cottage Crackenthorp dance Dolly door Dunsey Dunstan Edited English Eppie Eppie's everything eyes face farrier father feeling felt folks George Eliot Godfrey Cass Godfrey's gold gone guineas hand head heart horse introduction and notes keep Kimble knew Lammeter's landlord Lantern Yard look loom Macey married Master Marner Middlemarch mind Miss Gunns Miss Nancy morning Nancy's neighbours never novel novelist Osgood parish perhaps pretty Priscilla Professor Rainbow Raveloe reading Red House ROBERT HERRICK round Scenes of Clerical School seemed sense Silas Marner Silas's speak Squire Cass Squire's Stone-pits story strange student talk tell there's things thought tinder-box tion turned village walked weaver weaving wife Wildfire Winthrop woman words young
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Strana 108 - ... as far as his broad frill, so that he looked like a cherubic head untroubled with a body, he began with a clear chirp, and in a melody that had the rhythm of an industrious hammer — " God rest you, merry gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ our Saviour Was born on Christmas-day.
Strana 57 - ud say that was a fine beast you druv in yesterday, Bob?" The butcher, a jolly, smiling, red-haired man, was not disposed to answer rashly. He gave a few puffs before he spat and replied, "And they wouldn't be fur wrong, John.
Strana 141 - ... those far-off scenes. The thoughts were strange to him now, like old friendships impossible to revive; and yet he had a dreamy feeling that this child was somehow a message come to him from that far-off life : it stirred fibres that had never been moved in Raveloe — old quiverings of tenderness — old impressions of awe at the presentiment of some Power presiding over his life...
Strana 64 - I come to think on it, meanin' goes but a little way i' most things, for you may mean to stick things together and your glue may be bad, and then where are you? And so I says to mysen, 'It isn't the meanin', it's the glue.
Strana 3 - In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses— and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy spinning-wheels of polished oak— there might be seen in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain pallid undersized men, who, by the side of the brawny countryfolk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.
Strana xix - It may be a failure — it may be that you are unable to write fiction. Or, perhaps, it may be just good enough to warrant your trying again.
Strana 158 - Dolly had said it was for the good of the child ; and in this way, as the weeks grew to months, the child created fresh and fresh links between his life and the lives from which he had hitherto shrunk continually into narrower isolation.