Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect. Roderigo rent his chains asunder manfully, and Hugo died in agonies of remorse and arsenic, wit...
Doing nicely, sir. And off went Jo, talking very fast, as she told all about the Hummels, in whom her mother had interested richer friends than they were.
Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents, grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
Christie was one of that large class of women who, moderately endowed with talents, earnest and true-hearted, are driven by necessity, temperament, or principle out into the world to find support, hap...
Cast away at the very bottom of the table was the Professor, shouting answers to the questions of a very inquisitive, deaf old gentleman on one side, and talking philosophy with a Frenchman on the oth...
By gentle words and silent acts of kindness, he had won her reverence and her trust, which now had deepened into woman's truest, purest love.
But it did her good, for those whose opinion had real value gave her the criticism which is an author's best education; and when the first soreness was over, she could laugh at her poor little book, y...
As boys going to sea immediately become nautical in speech, walk as if they already had their sea legs on, and shiver their timbers on all possible occasions, so I turned military at once, called my d...
Aprende a conocer y a distinguir los elogios que enaltecen de los que denigran
And now, having endeavoured to suit everyone by many weddings, few deaths, and as much prosperity as the eternal fitness of things will permit, let the music stop, the lights die out, and the curtain...
A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.
A child her wayward pencil drewOn margins of her book;Garlands of flower, dancing elves,Bud, butterfly, and brook,Lessons undone, and plum forgot,Seeking with hand and heart
Only don't go to the other extreme and delve like slaves. Have regular hours for work and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it...
Freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.
Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which...
E)very genuine act or word, no matter how trifling it seems, leaves a sweet and strengthening influence behind
Polly tried to conquer the bad feeling; but it worried her, till she remembered something her mother once said to her: "When you feel out of sorts, try to make someone else happy, and you will soon be...
Take up your little burdens again, for though they seem heavy sometimes, they are good for us, and lighten as we learn to carry them.
Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe…
She said, hoping to soothe him with a little reason, which proved that she knew nothing about love.