| Loomis Joseph Campbell - 1884 - 442 páginas
...merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. 4. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the nortb wind raved ? Blow high, blow low,... | |
| Frank McAlpine - 1885 - 446 páginas
...cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. At last the great logs, crumbling low, Sent out a dull and duller glow; The bull's-eye watch that hung... | |
| 1885 - 120 páginas
...clean-winged hearth, the house-dog on his paws outspread, and the cat dozing before the fire, while "The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered...the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood ; " of the love for each other of the members of that household gathered around that hearth ; of the... | |
| William Swinton - 1885 - 408 páginas
...seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the anairon's straddling feet, The mug 01 cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row;...basket stood, With nuts from brown October's wood.— \\hiltier. CHAPTER V. THE VERB. I. DEFINITION. p 89. A verb is a word that predicates* action or being:... | |
| William Henry Rideing - 1887 - 240 páginas
...the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andiron's straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood." The father was a plain, taciturn, yet prompt and decisive man, who in early life had explored the vast... | |
| William Henry Rideing - 1887 - 258 páginas
...tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andiron's straddling feel, The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood." The father was a plain, taciturn, yet prompt and decisive man, who in early life had explored the vast... | |
| 1887 - 448 páginas
...dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside m'^et, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of...sputtered in a row; And, close at hand, the basket stood nuts from brown October's wood. At last the great logs, crumbling low, Sent out a dull and duller glow;... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge - 1887 - 500 páginas
...the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall, Arid for the winter fireside meet Between the andiron's straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And close at hand ihc basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood." The father was a plain, taciturn, yet prompt... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1888 - 366 páginas
...dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved ? Blow high, blow low, not... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 páginas
...cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved ? Blow high, blow low, not... | |
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