 ... of your life, but to stare people in the face, and to amuse yourself with watching all that goes on in the kitchen ! Think, I beseech you, how you would like to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and to wag backwards and forwards year after...  The Wesleyan juvenile offering - Page 46by Wesleyan Methodist missionary society - 1849Full view - About this book
 | mrs. William Thomas Greenup - 1880 - 296 pages
...up for life in this dark closet, and wag backwards and forwards, year after year, as I do.' ' Why,' said the dial,' is there not a window in your house...through ?' ' For all that,' resumed the pendulum, ' although there is a window, I dare not stop, even for an •nstant, to look out. Besides, I am really... | |
 | Kate (fict.name.) - 1881 - 136 pages
...like to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and wag backwards and forwards, year after year, as I do." " As to that," said the dial, " is there not a window in your house on purpose foryou to look through ? " "For all that," resumed the pendulum, " it is very dark here ; and although... | |
 | Henry B. Buckham - English language - 1881 - 270 pages
...door Was sitting in the sun. 2. But now a faint tick was heard below from the pendulum. 3. As to that, is there not a window in your house, on purpose for you to look through ? 4. Now is the proper time. 5. Ah! how easy it is to read what it was so difficult to write. 6. There... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1884 - 248 pages
...for life in this dark closet, and wag backwards and forwards, year after year, as I do.' 3. ' Why,' said the dial, ' is there not a window in your house...look through ?' 'For all that,' resumed the pendulum, 'although there is a window, I dare not stop, even for an instant, to look out. Besides, I am really... | |
 | Howard Sandison - Education, Primary - 1886 - 496 pages
...like to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and wag backward and forward year after year, as I do.' — 'As to that,' said the Dial, ' is there not...window in your house on purpose for you to look through ? ' 'But what of that?' resumed the Pendulum. ' Although there is a window, I dare not stop, even for... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1888 - 876 pages
...forwards, year after year, and do." — " As to that," said the di?l, ' Is there not a window in youi house, on purpose for you to look through ?" " For...although there is a window, I dare not stop, even for an ¡nsi ant, to look out at it. Besides, I am really tired of my way of life; and, if you wish, Fll tell... | |
 | Edmund Shorthouse - Anecdotes - 1891 - 588 pages
...to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and swing backwards and forwards, year after year, as I do." "As to that," said the Dial, "Is there not a...here ; and although there is a window, I dare not, as you all know, stop even for an instant to look out ; besides, I am really weary of my way of life... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 pages
...to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and to wag backwards and forwards year after year as I do." " As to that," said the dial, " is there not...in your house, on purpose for you to look through?" emnloTrheni. I happened this morning to be calculating how many times I should have to tick in the... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 484 pages
...to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and to wag backwards and forwards year after year as I do." "As to that," said the dial, " is there not a...is very dark here: and, although there is a window, 1 dare not stop even for an instant, to look out at it. Besides, I am really tired of my way of life;... | |
 | Emilie Poulsson - Children's stories - 1893 - 484 pages
...to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and to wag backwards and forwards year after year, as I do." "As to that," said the dial, "is there not a window in your house for you to look through? " " For all that," resumed the pendulum, " it is very dark here, and, although... | |
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