| Literature - 1848 - 692 pages
...roared again, as though it would rend the very oaks. My heart clicked like a Nuremberg egg ;* and for the first time in my life I knew what it was to fear. But I was then a superstitious boy ; and, scarcely aware of what I did, made the sign of the... | |
| 1878 - 496 pages
...feeling that between us was an inseparable barrier, but now all my delusions had faded away, and for the first time in my life I knew what it was to be loved. My head was in a strange whirl, 1 could not understand it all at once, — I begged for a few... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1848 - 692 pages
...roared again, as though it would rend the very oaks. My heart clicked like a Nuremberg egg ;* and for the first time in my life I knew what it was to fear. But I was then a superstitious boy ; and, scarcely aware of what I did, made the sign of the... | |
| Henry John Whitling - Franconia (Germany) - 1850 - 334 pages
...roared again, as though it would rend the very oaks. My heart clicked like a Nuremberg egg;* and for the first time in my life I knew what it was to fear. But I was then a superstitious boy and, scarcely aware of what I did, made the sign o1 the cross... | |
| 1862 - 434 pages
...in the domain of color as representative of music. We had a house in West Twenty sixth street. For the first time in my life I knew what it was to havo all the g<a I wanted, and to pay the company a corresponding large bill for the same. For my wife's... | |
| D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson - Education - 1868 - 400 pages
...of the cake was ascertained, and my borrowed plumage was incontinently stripped off me. Indeed, for the first time in my life I knew what it was to have my head punched, and, at the time, I had an indistinct idea that I deserved it. I may as well... | |
| White-Rock Cove - Adventure stories - 1868 - 266 pages
...Hitherto the singing had appeared the only attractive portion of divine worship; but now that, for the first time in my life, I knew what it was to have a really sin-burdened conscience, the sweetest music seemed as nothing in comparison with the... | |
| Society for promoting Christian knowledge - Christian saints - 1871 - 290 pages
...Neff went to Val Queyras. " There," he wrote to a friend, " I felt my strength rapidly declining. For the first time in my life, I knew what it was to be completely fatigued, and was convinced that it was absolutely necessary to obtain that advice and assistance, which my mountaineers,... | |
| William Harnett Blanch - History - 1877 - 208 pages
...of the cake, was ascertained, and my borrowed plumage was incontinently stripped off me. Indeed, for the first time in my life I knew what it was to have my head punched, and, at the time, I had an indistinct idea that I deserved it." We soon settled... | |
| M. D. - 1878 - 140 pages
...she had grown partly accustomed to privations ; but this was my first experience of real want. For the first time in my life I knew what it was to sit down to a meal so scanty that I rose up from it still hungry and unsatisfied ; but I was too proud... | |
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