It was too far to return to dinner, and an allowance of cold meat and bread, in the same penurious proportion observed in our ordinary meals, was served round between the services. At the close of the afternoon service we returned by an exposed and hilly... Tait's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 346edited by - 1848Full view - About this book
| Charlotte Brontė - English fiction - 1850 - 500 pages
...colder; during the morning service we became almost paralyzed. It was too far to return to dinner, and an allowance of cold meat and bread, in the same penurious...proportion observed in our ordinary meals, was served around between the services. At the close of the afternoon service, we returned by an exposed and hilly... | |
| English language - 1859 - 684 pages
...colder ; during the morniug service we became almost paralyzed. It was too- far to return to dinner, and contrary opinion — I was silent. Mrs. around between the services. At the close of the afternoon service, we returned by an exposed and hilly... | |
| Charlotte Brontė - 1872 - 520 pages
...colder : during the morning service we became almost paralysed. It was too far to return to dinner, and an allowance of cold meat and bread, in the same penurious...the north, almost flayed the skin from our faces. I can remember Miss Temple walking lightly and rapidly along our drooping line, her plaid cloak, which... | |
| Charlotte Brontė - 1885 - 410 pages
...colder ; during the morning service we became almost paralyzed. It was too far to return to dinner, and an allowance of cold meat and bread, in the same penurious...the close of the afternoon service we returned by an eiposed and hilly road, where the bitter winter wind, blowing oyer a range of snowy summits to the... | |
| Charlotte Brontė - 1890 - 494 pages
...colder : during the morning service we became almost paralyzed. It was too far to return to dinner, and an allowance of cold meat and bread, in the same penurious...the north, almost flayed the skin from our faces. I can remember Miss Temple walking lightly and rapidly along our drooping line, her plaid cloak, which... | |
| Hubert Marshall Skinner - Teachers in literature - 1892 - 606 pages
...colder: during the morning service we became almost paralyzed. It was too far to return to dinner, and an allowance of cold meat and bread, in the same penurious...the north, almost flayed the skin from our faces. I can remember Miss Temple walking lightly and rapidly along our drooping line, her plaid cloak, which... | |
| Charlotte Brontė - Authors, English - 1893 - 372 pages
...colder: during the morning service we became almost paralysed. It was too far to return to dinner, and an allowance of cold meat and bread, in the same penurious...the north, almost flayed the skin from our faces. I can remember Miss Temple walking lightly and rapidly along our drooping line, her plaid cloak, which... | |
| Marion Harland - Authors, English - 1899 - 370 pages
...colder. During the morning service we became almost paralysed. It was too far to return to dinner, and an allowance of cold meat and bread, in the same penurious proportion observed in our daily meals, was served round between the services. "At the close of the afternoon service we returned... | |
| Kirk Munroe, Mary Hartwell Catherwood - Children's literature - 1902 - 444 pages
...colder : during the morning service we became almost paralyzed. It was too far to return to dinner, and an allowance of cold meat and bread, in the same penurious...the north, almost flayed the skin from our faces. I can remember Miss Temple walking lightly and rapidly along our drooping line, her plaid cloak, which... | |
| Henry Houston Bonnell - English fiction - 1902 - 486 pages
...of starvation spent in a paralyzingly cold church) would be set forth in the usual weather strain. " At the close of the afternoon service we returned by an exposed and hilly road, where the bitter wind, blowing over a range of snowy summits to the north, almost flayed the skins from our faces."... | |
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