United States or British Virgin Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
This combination was known as a Makart bouquet, and represented the taste of the period. Döderlein put the little girl down and gave her her doll. Then he drew himself up to the fulness of his gigantic stature, a process that gave him obvious pleasure. His neck was so fat that his chin seemed to rest on a gelatinous mass. He seemed not to recall Daniel.
After living for a time with his young wife, Rebecca Bryan, in a cabin in his father's yard, Daniel built a home of his own upon a tract of land, purchased from his father on October 12, 1759, and lying on Sugar Tree, a tributary of Dutchman's Creek.
Yet although Kester sent this message through Philip although he saw and recognized all that Philip was doing in their behalf, in the behalf of Daniel Robson, the condemned felon, his honoured master he liked Hepburn not a whit better than he had done before all this sorrow had come upon them. Philip had, perhaps, shown a want of tact in his conduct to Kester.
From the time when the tiny little carriage and the two sets of harness glistening with silver had come, Toby had been anxious for a drive with the ponies; but he had resolutely refused to use them until Abner could go with him, although Uncle Daniel had told him he could try them whenever he wished.
It is stronger than I am, stronger than all things else; I must write to you, I cannot help it." At another time she said, "Do you remember that evening, O Daniel! when, pressing Sarah Brandon to your heart, you swore to be hers forever? The Countess Ville-Handry cannot forget it."
The widow-woman was to come and stay in the house, to keep Sylvia company, during her mother's absence. Daniel, indeed, was to return home after conveying his wife to her destination; but there was so much to be done on the land at this time of the year, that Sylvia would have been alone all day had it not been for the arrangement just mentioned.
And the first four chapters of the book of Daniel, noble and wonderful as they are, seem to me to have been put into the Bible simply to teach us this one thing, that heathen rulers, as well as Christians, are the Lord's servants, and that their power is ordained by God.
But never in my life never in all my born days never since I was first made a gardener, have I suffered anythink like as I've suffered along o' that there boy." "Nonsense, Daniel! nonsense!" cried the doctor pettishly.
Daniel Webster's father was the strong man of his neighborhood; the very model of a republican citizen and hero, stalwart, handsome, brave, and gentle. Ebenezer Webster inherited no worldly advantages.
Waldo Emerson thought himself the intellectual inferior of his brother Charles; and good observers loved to maintain that John Holmes was wittier than Oliver Wendell, and Ezekiel Webster a better lawyer than Daniel. Applied to the literary history of a race, this principle is suggestive.
Word Of The Day