Sanders' Young Ladies' Reader: Embracing a Comprehensive Course of Instruction in the Principles of Rhetorical Reading : with a Choice Collection of Exercises in Reading, Both in Prose and Poetry, for the Use of the Higher Female Seminaries, as Also, the Higher Classes in Female Schools Generally |
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Page 90
It often descends with destructive energy , bringing down with it all the ground on which it lies , together with trees , rocks , & c . , & c . 3. PET ' - RI - FIED ( from PETRI , stone , and FIED , made ) signifies made , or changed ...
It often descends with destructive energy , bringing down with it all the ground on which it lies , together with trees , rocks , & c . , & c . 3. PET ' - RI - FIED ( from PETRI , stone , and FIED , made ) signifies made , or changed ...
Page 91
a chaos of stones , an endless avalanche of rocks -- rocks of somber gray , streaked with flame - color and white opaquethe petrified ' waves of a granite flood : not one drop of wa . ter in the deep interstices of this bed , calcined ...
a chaos of stones , an endless avalanche of rocks -- rocks of somber gray , streaked with flame - color and white opaquethe petrified ' waves of a granite flood : not one drop of wa . ter in the deep interstices of this bed , calcined ...
Page 448
... and trickling in silver rills over the dark and broken masses of stone , from whose crevices , forever wet , grew out such shrubs and plants as love to climb about the rocks , and delight in perpetual moisture . 8.
... and trickling in silver rills over the dark and broken masses of stone , from whose crevices , forever wet , grew out such shrubs and plants as love to climb about the rocks , and delight in perpetual moisture . 8.
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