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This Radical literato is slightly acquainted with four or five of the easier dialects of Europe, on the strength of which knowledge he would fain pass for a universal linguist, publishing translations of pieces originally written in various difficult languages; which translations, however, were either made by himself from literal renderings done for him into French or German, or had been made from the originals into English, by friendless young men, and then deformed by his alterations.
I believe we should not have been here, but we have no other place so suitable for her sufferings as this jail." "Gelsomina, thou art happier than I, even in thy prison. I am fatherless motherless I could almost say, friendless." "And this from a lady of the Tiepolo!" "All is not as it seems in this evil world, kind Gelsomina. We have had many Doges, but we have had much suffering.
Then came some pages covered with snatches of melancholy verse, or some reflections of dreamy gloom. The writer was in London, in the house of some high-born patroness, that friendless shadow of a friend which the jargon of society calls "companion." And she was looking on the bright storm of the world as through prison bars.
Then Leah sadly turned her eyes upward to the cracked, stained wall overhead, and faintly murmured, "Here I am at last, alone-alone in the Queen City, friendless and penniless-alone in the place where I once possessed thousands-alone in my search for the only being who loves me, in this wide world-alone, with nothing to cheer me but my own faithful, resolute heart.
He bent over the table, and with his face close to that of the king, "I demand to know what your intentions are toward that friendless goose-girl." "And what is that to you?" said the king, the smoke of anger in his eyes. "It is this much: if you have acted toward her otherwise than honorably Well!" "Go on; you interest me!" "Well, I promise to break every bone in your kingly body.
"'Wich I'm much hobleeged to you for the name, an' the good advice you give the master, stirrin' hov 'im hup against a lone, friendless widow, wat's slaved an' worked this six years come St. Michaelmas. "Mr.
She told me in the saddest way that she had been feeling so old and useless and friendless, and she was very confidential. Imagine her being confidential with me! She seemed to me just like myself as I was last year, you remember just beginning to realize what life ought to be, and trying, in a frightened, blind kind of way to be good and useful.
Poor girl! knowing she was motherless and friendless, I tried to win her regard; I asked her to come to the house, with some other young girls of the neighborhood, to study the Bible under my poor teachings; but she declined, and I afterwards went to see her, hoping to persuade her to come. I found her pale and delicate, and much dispirited.
Not long ago my heart was breaking because I was friendless and in trouble. What could I think of myself if I did not entreat you in behalf of this poor child?" "Thunder!" ejaculated Holcroft. "I guess I was rather friendless and troubled myself, and I didn't know the world had in it such a good friend as you've become, Alida. Well, well!
Great numbers landed friendless and penniless in Sydney, and in a few weeks found themselves obliged to sleep in the parks, or in the streets, and, but for the friendly exertions of a benevolent lady, Mrs. Chisholm, who obtained employment at different times for about two thousand of them, their position would, indeed, have been wretched. Mrs.
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