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'No, Clem, chickens have got feathers and wings, and their long necks hang down! This can't be one of them. 'Perhaps it is a robin-redbreast, said Felix. 'No, nobody kills robin-redbreasts, because they covered the poor little children with leaves. 'Will you cover me with leaves, if I am lost, Bobbie? said Mr.
On the eleventh day, however, he fastened on the wings, blessed himself, mounted high into the air, and looked around on all sides to seek for his father's kingdom; he could not, however, discover it, but toward evening he espied a shore, upon which was a thick forest; so he alighted, took off his wings, and following a path, he came at last to the gates of a city.
Again I listened, and struggled, as formerly, against his wiles, and finally bent a too willing ear to his soft words of praise and admiration. With secret pleasure I reveled in his ardent language, hugging to my heart the belief that I was loved. How that summer sped by on its golden wings! Time passed on, as in some delicious opium dream!
For the dog on the stage, now responding to its one encore, was singing "Home, Sweet Home." This finished, Jacob Henderson, to tumultuous applause, came on the stage from the wings and joined the dog in bowing. Villa and Harley sat in silence for a moment. Then Villa said, apropos of nothing: "I have been sitting here and feeling very grateful for one particular thing." He waited.
For a moment he was again silent, then he laughed loudly, and cried to the queen: "As for you sister your tender heart will of course bear you on the wings of love to the side of your wounded husband." Cleopatra's pale cheeks had flushed scarlet at the Roman's speech; she vouchsafed no answer to her brother's ironical address, but advanced proudly to the door.
I wished for the Wings of an Eagle, that I might fly away to those happy Seats; but the Genius told me there was no Passage to them, except through the Gates of Death that I saw opening every Moment upon the Bridge.
"I know I'm too much inclined that, way" agreed Anne ruefully. "When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part IS glorious as long as it lasts . . . it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud."
They sat like that for a moment, in silence, and they did not see, did not perceive the movement, at a few steps from them, of the creeping shadow of two great black wings, a shadow that came along the roof so near, so near them that it could have stifled them by closing over them. "The next day," Christine continued, with a sigh, "I went back to my dressing-room in a very pensive frame of mind.
She heard the sound of galloping feet, and there was the pony, with the child seated betwixt his wings, coming straight on at full speed for where she lay. "I don't care," she said. "They may trample me under their feet if they like. I am tired and sick of myself a creature at whose touch the flowers wither!" On came the winged pony.
In another month there will not be a soul alive in the city. "You do not think there is any chance of our making our escape?" "Not unless wings could sprout out from our shoulders," Juan said, "and we could fly through the air.
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