O Pioneers!Houghton Mifflin, 1913 - 306 pages |
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... Emil ! Didn't I tell you she'd get us into trouble of some kind , if you brought her ? What made you tease me so ? But there , I ought to have known better myself . " She went to the foot of the pole and held out her arms , crying ...
... Emil ! Didn't I tell you she'd get us into trouble of some kind , if you brought her ? What made you tease me so ? But there , I ought to have known better myself . " She went to the foot of the pole and held out her arms , crying ...
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... Emil still sat by the pole . " I'll have to go up after her , Alexandra . I think at the depot they have some spikes I can strap on my feet . Wait a minute . " Carl thrust his hands into his pockets , lowered his head , and darted up ...
... Emil still sat by the pole . " I'll have to go up after her , Alexandra . I think at the depot they have some spikes I can strap on my feet . Wait a minute . " Carl thrust his hands into his pockets , lowered his head , and darted up ...
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... Emil . " Let me down , Uncle Joe , " she said , " I want to give some of my candy to that nice little boy I found . " She walked graciously over to Emil , followed by her lusty admirers , who formed a new circle and teased the little ...
... Emil . " Let me down , Uncle Joe , " she said , " I want to give some of my candy to that nice little boy I found . " She walked graciously over to Emil , followed by her lusty admirers , who formed a new circle and teased the little ...
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... Emil out and tucked him down in the straw in the wagon- box . The heat had made the little boy sleepy , but he still clung to his kitten . " You were awful good to climb so high and get my kitten , Carl . When I get big I'll climb and ...
... Emil out and tucked him down in the straw in the wagon- box . The heat had made the little boy sleepy , but he still clung to his kitten . " You were awful good to climb so high and get my kitten , Carl . When I get big I'll climb and ...
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... Emil , on the second seat with Alexandra , sat proudly in his new trousers , made from a pair of his father's , and a pink - striped shirt , with a wide ruffled collar . Oscar stopped the horses and waved to Carl , who caught up his hat ...
... Emil , on the second seat with Alexandra , sat proudly in his new trousers , made from a pair of his father's , and a pink - striped shirt , with a wide ruffled collar . Oscar stopped the horses and waved to Carl , who caught up his hat ...
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Page 32 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, And herb for the service of man : That he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 32 - He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills. They give drink to every beast of the field : the wild asses quench their thirst.
Page 16 - Now, when he had at last struggled out of debt, he was going to die himself. He was only forty-six, and had, of course, counted upon more time. Bergson had spent his first five years on the Divide getting into debt, and the last six getting out. He had paid off his mortgages and had ended pretty much where he began, with the land. He owned exactly six hundred and forty acres of what stretched outside his door; his own original homestead and timber claim, making three hundred and twenty acres, and...
Page 42 - A pioneer . . . should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves," Miss Gather says; disaster comes when an idea becomes an actuality.
Page 113 - There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
Page 71 - It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back. Like the plains of Lombardy, it seems to rise a little to meet the sun. The air and the earth are curiously mated and intermingled, as if the one were the breath of the other.
Page 86 - Ivar pulled a red handkerchief out of the breast of his blouse and wiped his eyes and beard. "But I should not wish you to keep me if, as they say, it is against your interests, and if it is hard for you to get hands because I am here." Alexandra made an impatient gesture, but the old man put out his hand and went on earnestly: — "Listen, mistress, it is right that you should take these things into account. You know that my spells come from God, and that I would not harm any living creature. You...
Page 77 - On either side of the road, for a mile before you reached the foot of the hill, stood tall osage orange hedges, their glossy green marking off the yellow fields. South of the hill, in a low, sheltered swale, surrounded by a mulberry hedge, was the orchard, its fruit trees knee-deep in timothy grass.
Page 59 - For the first time, perhaps, since that land emerged from the waters of geologic ages, a human face was set toward it with love and yearning.