The American Home Book of In-door Games, Amusements, and OccupationsLee and Shepard, 1872 - 378 頁 |
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amusing answer arrange basket beautiful beds brush bulbs called cards carefully centre Christmas circle cloth color cork corolla cover crimson dance desire dolls door dress ELM ISLAND fasten fat hen favorite fingers flowers four friends Fuchsias garden gentleman Geranium girls give glass green guess hair head imitate inches isinglass keep knit lady leaf leaves Lemon Verbena light Lilium Lancifolium Lobelia Maurandya moss needle Noisette painted pansy paper partners pass pay a forfeit person pharynx piece pink plant play player pots pretty purl quadrille require ribbon right hand roots roses round scarlet seated seeds sepals shade side singing soil sound spermaceti spring stitch tree turn Twelfth Night varieties varnish ventrilo ventriloquism ventriloquist Verbenas vines voice wild geese winter word young
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第 78 頁 - So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?
第 94 頁 - I'd have you remember that when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.
第 46 頁 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer, A-chasing the wild deer and following the roe — My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go!
第 78 頁 - So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top; and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.
第 203 頁 - DISSOLVE crystals of nitrate of copper in spirit of wine ; light the solution, and it will burn with a beautiful emerald-green flame : pieces of sponge soaked in this spirit, lighted and suspended by fine wires over the stage of theatres, produce the lambent green flames now so common in incantation scenes : strips of flannel saturated with it, and applied round copper swords, tridents, &c.
第 171 頁 - THE VOWELS We are little airy creatures, All of different voice and features; One of us in glass is set, One of us you'll find in jet. T'other you may see in tin, And the fourth a box within. If the fifth you should pursue, It can never fly from you.
第 306 頁 - ... and needles. Superabundant branches can be thinned out with small, sharppointed scissors. When the specimen is placed as you like it, cautiously raise the paper, that the position of the plant be not altered, and let it rest somewhere with sloping inclination, that the moisture may run off, while other specimens are treated in the same way. Do not leave them long thus, for they must be pressed before the paper is dry.
第 249 頁 - When the air blows upon these strings, with different degrees of force, it will excite different tones of sound ; sometimes the blast brings out all the tones in...
第 26 頁 - Pat a cake, pat a cake, Baker's man. Bake me a cake as fast as you can. / Roll it / and pat it / and mark it with a T; / put it in the oven for baby and me.) As soon as mother begins the first sequence with hand clapping, Ronny smiles.
第 174 頁 - You gave the wrong answer,' said the sphinx. 'But that was what made everything possible,' said Oedipus. 'No.' she said. 'When I asked, what walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening, you answered Man. You didn't say anything about Woman.' 'When you say Man,' said Oedipus, 'you include women too. Everyone knows that.