The Young Wanderer's Cave: And Other Tales

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Whittaker, Treacher, & Company, 1830 - 316 páginas
 

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Página 16 - early to bed and early to rise, is the way to be healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Página 240 - ... than for me ? Curate. When did you make the proposal ? Brother. Towards the latter end of February. Curate. But what if I could prove to you that she was engaged to Mr. Roberts the foregoing year ? Brother. I wish I could see that proved ! Curate. You shall soon see it. Saying so the Curate hastily left the room, and returned in a few minutes with a letter which his sister-in-law had written to him the November of the preceding year, in which she mentioned to him that she was engaged to Mr. Roberts,...
Página 276 - What water forward? what water abaft ? what water to starboard? what water to port?
Página 31 - ... the fastening. Bruin seemed, however, in no humour to make the experiment. Sore and worn out, he crawled into a corner and was soon fast asleep, resuming in his dreams some of his old avocations. He woke at daylight, and immediately rose to examine his prison. The door he sniffed at, but passed by; the window was at so great a height from the floor that he could not reach it upon tiptoe, but he remarked that a very delicious puff of fresh air came down an aperture originally used as a chimney....
Página 204 - Hidden brook, that to the sleepy woods, all night, Singeth a quiet tune.

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