United States or Cook Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Anderson remarked in his paper at Magnolia, if we saw a family at home gathered around the table, leaning their elbows upon it and facing the light, we should think it a very unnatural and unhygienic position to adopt. Why should we, in the library, encourage children to do just what physiologists tell us they should not do?
I was yet a boy, and during the hotter hours of the day, I used to take my books and go with one of the missionaries to study near a torrent, under the cool shade of a magnolia.¸ All the trees around us were filled with numerous republics of squirrels, scampering and jumping from branch to branch, and, forgetful of everything else, we would sometimes watch their sport for hours together.
I think people often get sick for want of something to think of." How sure I felt, as I went up to bed that night, that no such easy cause of sickness would be mine for long years to come! The next day we were to go to Magnolia. It was a better day than I expected. Preston kept me with him, away from aunt Gary and my governess; who seemed to have a very comfortable time together.
Such a flood of memories and happy associations came rushing into my mind at these words, he had not given them time to come in slowly, I suppose my face showed it. The doctor looked at me and smiled. "I see it is Daisy," he said. "I think it certainly Daisy. So you do not like Magnolia?" "Yes, I do," I said, wondering where he got that conclusion. "I like the place very much, if "
But those who have ever bathed in Green Cove Spring, near Magnolia, on the St. John's River, will be ready to testify that, had he but stayed there longer, he would have found something to recall his visions of the Fountain of Youth. For the statement as to the lingering belief in the Jacquet Island, see Winsor's "Columbus," p. 111.
Aunt Rebecca, notwithstanding all this, and although she looked straight at her from a distance of only ten steps, yet she could not see that large and highly-coloured heroine; and Magnolia was so incensed at her serene impertinence that when Gertrude afterwards smiled and courtesied twice, she only held her head the higher and flung a flashing defiance from her fine eyes right at that unoffending virgin.
Sandford would run down to Magnolia at his earliest convenience and see me, and make enquiry as to my well-being; and if he found things not satisfactory, as my father feared he might and judged that the rule of Miss Pinshon had not been good for me on the whole, my father desired that Dr.
And really I shall not be sorry to get back to deah old N'York and renew my wardrobe." "If he has any more suits he'll have to get a man to look after them," remarked Alice. "Oh, hush!" chided Ruth. Then silence once more settled down over the company on the upper deck of the Magnolia. An awning protected them from the hot sun, and really it was very pleasant traveling that way.
And, as Mildmay spoke, he pointed to a small magnolia bush, within about a hundred yards of the ship, on the hither side of which, and close under it, a native warrior was crouching, and occasionally raising his hand, as though endeavouring to attract the attention of the white men, who, from the position which he occupied, were in full view of him.
I thought I'd like to hear. Now I'll be going back up the mountain. Violetta an' Rosalinda are pulling fodder and mother is ploughing for wheat. I do the spinning mostly. You've got lovely china asters, Mrs. Cole. They have a flower they called magnolia down 't Richmond like a great sweet white cup, an' they had pink crape myrtles. I liked it in Richmond, for all the death an' mourning.
Word Of The Day