The Boy's Own Annual, Band 6Boy's Own Paper, 1884 |
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Seite 13 - The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, And next the Crab the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer, and He-goat, The Man that holds the watering-pot, And Fish with glittering tails.
Seite 237 - They fought the dogs, and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats, By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking :
Seite 311 - England, he accepted of the government of the Massachusetts. in which he continued to the time of his death ; and discharged his trust with that zeal for the interest of his country, and with so little regard to his own private advantage, that he justly gained the good esteem and affections of the greatest and best part of the inhabitants of that Colony.
Seite 93 - ... or 40°. These left behind luminous trains, which remained in view several minutes, and sometimes half an hour or more. One of them, seen in North Carolina, appeared of larger size and greater brilliancy than the moon. Some of the luminous bodies were of irregular form, and remained stationary for a considerable time, emitting streams of light. At Niagara the exhibition was especially brilliant, and probably no spectacle so terribly grand and sublime was ever before beheld by man as that of the...
Seite 42 - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Seite 188 - In these examinations, as in the open competition, the merit of the candidates examined will be estimated by marks, and the number set opposite to each subject denotes the greatest number of marks that can be obtained in respect of it at any one examination.
Seite 190 - That were through the Midnight rolling, chafed and billowy with the. tolling — In my chamber I lay dreaming by the fire-light's fitful gleaming, And my dreams were dreams foreshadowed on a heart foredoomed to Care...
Seite 112 - Mehetable and Susan try their very broadest grin ; And the infant Zachariah on his mother's lap would wriggle, And add a lusty chorus to the very merry din. It was such a funny story, with its cheery snap and crackle, And Sally always told it with so much dramatic art. That the chickens in the door-yard would begin to " cackle-cackle," As if in such a frolic they were anxious to take part.
Seite 311 - Near this place is interred the Body of Sir WILLIAM PHIPPS, Knight; who, in the year 1687, by his great industry, discovered among the rocks near the Banks of Bahama on the north side of Hispaniola, a Spanish plateship, which had been under water...
Seite 30 - The ball may be stopped, but not carried or knocked on by any part of the body. No player shall raise his stick above his shoulder.