Long before I looked upon her, the help had come. Her face was radiant with intelligence and pleasure. Her hair, braided by her own hands, was bound about a head, whose intellectual capacity and development were beautifully expressed in its graceful outline,... The North American Review - Page 2211843Full view - About this book
| Charles Dickens - 1866 - 472 pages
...about a head, whose intellectual capacity and development were beautifully expressed in its graceful outline, and its broad open brow ; her dress, arranged...Like other inmates of that house, she had a green ribbon bound round her eyelids. A doll she had dressed lay near upon the ground. I took it up, and... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1868 - 130 pages
...was a pattern of neatuess and simplicity ; the work she had knitted lay heside her ; her writing-hook was on the desk she leaned upon. From the mournful ruin of such hereavement there had slowly risen up this gentle, tender, guileless, gratefulhearted heing. Like other... | |
| David Thomas - 1868 - 222 pages
...development were beautifully expressed in its graceful outline and its broad open brow ; her dress anang -d by herself, was a pattern of neatness and simplicity; the work she had kuited lay beside her; her writing-book was on the desk she leaned upon. From the mournful ruin of... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1868 - 658 pages
...a chink in the wall, beckoning to some good man for help , that an Immortal soul might be awakened. such bereavement, there had slowly risen up this gentle, tender, guileless, gratefulhearted being. Lake other inmates of that house, she had a green ribbon bound round her eyelids. A doll she had dressed... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1869 - 530 pages
...about a head whose intellectual capacity and development were beautifully expressed in its graceful outline and its broad open brow ; her dress, arranged...Like other inmates of that house, she had a green ribbon bound round her eyelids. A doll she had dressed lay near upon the ground. I took it up and saw... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 274 pages
...about a head whose intellectual capacity and development were beautifully expressed in its graceful outline and its broad open brow ; her dress, arranged...Like other inmates of that house, she had a green ribbon bound round her eyelids. A doll she had dressed lay near upon the ground. I took it up and saw... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 134 pages
...about a head whose intellectual capacity and! development were beautifully expressed in its graceful outline and its broad open brow ; her dress, arranged...Like other inmates of that house, she had a green ribbon bound round her eyelids. A doll she had dressed lay near upon the ground. I took it up and saw... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1877 - 398 pages
...about a head, whose intellectual capacity and development were beautifully expressed in its graceful outline and its broad, open brow ; her dress, arranged...simplicity ; the work she had knitted lay beside her ; her « ni ing-book was on the desk she leaned upon. From the mournful ruin of such bereavement there had... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1873 - 584 pages
...about a head whose intellectual capacity and development were beautifully expressed in its graceful . * * * * * * Ye who have eyes and see not, and have ears and hear not ; ye who are as the hypocrites,... | |
| Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1871 - 424 pages
...about a head whose intellectual capacity and development were beautifully expressed in its graceful outline and its broad, open brow ; her dress, arranged...Like other inmates of that house, she had a green ribbon bound round her eyelids. A doll she had dressed lay near upon the ground. I took it up, and... | |
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