 She would speak to one and nod and smile to as many more ; but she could not do it to all, you know. We lay there by hundreds ; but we could kiss her shadow as it fell, and lay our heads on the pillow again, content.  Lives of Girls who Became Famous - Página 295por Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1886 - 347 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Charles Dickens - 1855 - 296 páginas
...pass — ' She would speak to one and another, and nod and smile to a many more ; but she couldn't do it to all, you know, for we lay there by hundreds...could kiss her shadow as it fell, and lay our heads on the pillow again content.' " And his correspondent then very justly remarked — " What poetry there... | |
 | 1856 - 606 páginas
...her pass. 'She would speak to one and another, and nod and smile to as many more n but she couldn't do it to all, you know, for we lay there by hundreds, but we could see her shadow as it fell, and lay our heads on the pillow, again, content.' " Mrs. Willoughby Moore... | |
 | 1857 - 904 páginas
...even to see Florence pass. She would speak to one and to another, and nod and smile to as many more ; we lay there by hundreds ; but we could kiss her shadow as it fell, and lay our heads on the pillow again content.' What poetry there is iu these men ! I think I told you of another who said... | |
 | 1858 - 866 páginas
...even to see Florence pass. 'She would speak to one and to another, and nod and smile to as many more; we lay there by hundreds; but we could kiss her shadow as it fell, and lay our heads on the pillow again content.' What poetry there is in these men ! I think I told you of another, who said... | |
 | Mary Cowden Clarke - 1858 - 494 páginas
...again, content.' — What poetry there is in these men ! I think I told you of another, who said, ' Before she came, there was such cussin and swearin ; and after that, it was as holy as a church.' " That consoling word or two, that gentle " nod and smile " in passing, were precisely the tokens of... | |
 | Thomas Carter - 1860 - 742 páginas
...would speak to one and to another, and nod and smile to a many more ; but she couldn't do it to all, as you know, for we lay there by hundreds ; but we could kiss her shadow as it fell, and lay our heads ou the pillow again, content." Britain has welcomed home with open hand Her gallant soldiers to their... | |
 | Ellen Creathorne Clayton - 1859 - 66 páginas
...fellow, 'writing home, " and nod and smile to a many more ; but she couldn't do it to all, you know. "We lay there by hundreds ; but we could kiss her shadow as it fell, and lay our heads on the pillow again, content." In her rounds, to one she would administer •words of consolation and... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - 1860 - 282 páginas
...comfort it was, even to see Florence pass. ' She would speak to one and another, and nod and smile to a many more ; but she could not do it to all, you know; we lay there in hundreds; but we could kiss her shadow as it fell, and lay our heads on the pillow... | |
 | Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen - 1861 - 418 páginas
...and when the eye saw her, it gave witness of her." " We lay there by hundreds," writes one soldier, " but we could kiss her shadow as it fell, and lay our heads on the pillow again, content." Let no one, after this expression, doubt that poetry is the language of... | |
 | Augusta Blanche Berard - 1862 - 468 páginas
...smile to as many more ; — but she couldn't do it to all, you know; we lay there by hundreds; but tee could kiss her shadow as it fell, and lay our heads on our pillows again content !" " On England's annals, through the long Hereafter of her speech and song, That light its rays shall... | |
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