And in at the windows and in at the door, And through the walls by thousands they pour, And down from the ceiling and up through the floor, From the right and the left, from behind and before, From within and without, from above and below, And all at... The Further Adventures of the Little Traveller - Page 104by George Frederick Pardon - 1857 - 112 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1901 - 1080 pages
...louder and louder- drawi"g near' The Lord forgive you for yesterday !" ' , The P»wing of their teeth " I'll go to my tower on the Rhine," replied Alld through the walls helter-skelter they he : pour ;... | |
| English poetry - 1904 - 876 pages
...And they have climbed the shores so steep, And now by thousands up they crawl To the holes and the windows in the wall. Down on his knees the bishop...through the walls, by thousands they pour ; And down from the ceiling and up through the floor, From the right and the left, from behind and before, From... | |
| Mary Elizabeth Burt - American poetry - 1904 - 394 pages
...faster and faster his beads did tell, As, louder and louder drawing near, The gnawing of their teeth he could hear. And in at the windows and in at the door, And through the walls, helter-skelter they pour, And down from the ceiling and up through the floor, From the right and the... | |
| American literature - 1904 - 704 pages
...faster and faster his beads did he tell As louder and louder drawing near The gnawing of their teeth he could hear. And in at the windows, and in at the door. And through the walls, helter-skelter they pour, And down from the ceiling and up through the floor, From the right and the... | |
| Henry Bernard Cotterill - Ballads, English - 1907 - 144 pages
...his beads did he tell, As louder and louder drawing near The gnawing of their teeth he could hear. ft And in at the windows, and in at the door, And through the walls helter-skelter they pour, And down from the ceiling, and up through the floor, From the right and the... | |
| Edward Lecompt Hubbard - 1908 - 214 pages
...listen'd and look'd ; — it was only the cat ; But the bishop he grew more fearful for that, For she was screaming, mad with fear At the army of rats that...through the walls by thousands they pour, And down from the ceiling and up through the floor, From the right and the left, from behind and before, From... | |
| Europe - 1908 - 554 pages
...army of rats that were drawing near. For they have swum over the river so deep, And they have climbed the shores so steep, And now by thousands up they...through the walls by thousands they pour ; And down from the ceiling and up through the floor, They have whetted their teeth against the stones, And now... | |
| Alfred S. Lowry - Elocution - 1908 - 418 pages
...faster and faster his beads did he tell, As louder and louder drawing near The gnawing of their teeth he could hear. And in at the windows, and in at the door, And through the walls helter-skelter they pour, And down from the ceiling, and up through the floor, From the right and the... | |
| Edmund MacKenzie Sneyd-Kynnersley - Education - 1908 - 380 pages
...as I sought for the latchkey. It wanted little that they should enter like Bishop Hatto's rats : " And in at the windows, and in at the door, And through the walls helter-skelter they pour ; And down from the ceiling, and up through the floor, From the right, and... | |
| Robert Southey - 1909 - 808 pages
...faster and faster his beads did he tell, As louder and louder drawing near 69 The gnawing of their teeth he could hear. And in at the windows and in at the door. And through the walls helter-skelter they pour, And down from the ceiling and up through the floor, From the right and the... | |
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