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Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)
Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
Women never hit what they aim at, ... but if they shut their eyes and shoot in the air they generally find themselves in the bull's eye.
New Chronicles of Rebecca (1907)
With the wonderful water round you curled
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)
Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.”
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)
Salemina is so English! I can’t think how she manages. She is, in fact, more than English; she is British.
I knew him at once!—the smiling, genial, mobile face, rather highly colored, the brilliant eyes, the watch chain, the red carnation in the button-hole, and the expressive hands, much given to gesture.
A Child's Journey with Dickens (1912)
When you have wanted something very much, and didn’t know whether you would ever get it or not, and then all at once you find you have it, you almost wish it hadn’t come so soon!
Aunt Celia is one of those persons who are born to command, and when they are thrown in contact with those who are born to be commanded all goes as merry as a marriage bell ; otherwise not.
"She has a nice ladylike appearance, but when she takes her bonnet off she looks seventy years old.” “She ought to keep it off, then,” returned Francesca, “ for she looked eighty with it on.
She was fairly good at any kind of housework not demanding brains. (Chapter 20)
Mother Carey's Chickens (1911)
"Mr. Popham is a Methodist and I'm a Congregationalist, but I say let the children go where they like, so I always take them with me." (Chapter 24)
Mother Carey's Chickens (1911)