 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 - 1877 - 502 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 - 1883 - 666 pages
...about a head whose intellectnil capacity and development were beautifully expressed in its graceful ; but this is a rare case: perfect selfpossession and self-reliance a » pattern of neatness and simplicity ; the work she had knitted lay beside her; her writinghook was... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1884 - 872 pages
...about her 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 ; hei writing book was on the desk she leaned upon. — From the mournful ruin of such bereavement,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1885 - 990 pages
...about a head, whose intellectual capacity and development were beautifully expressed in its graceful outline, and its broad open brow; her dress, arranged...had slowly risen up this gentle, tender, guileless, gratef ul-hearted oeing. Like other inmates of that house, she had a green ribbon bound round her eyelids.... | |
 | James Parton - 1885 - 614 pages
...about her head, whose intellectual capacity and development were beautifully expressed in its graceful outline and its broad, open brow ; her dress, arranged...her writing-book was on the desk she leaned upon. . . . Like other inmates of that house, she had a green ribbon bound around her eyelids. A doll she... | |
 | James Parton - 1886 - 588 pages
...about her head, whose intellectual capacity and development were beautifully expressed in its graceful outline and its broad, open brow ; her dress, arranged...her writing-book was on the desk she leaned upon. . . . Like other inmates of that house, she had a green ribbon bound around her eyelids. A doll she... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1885 - 860 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 ribboa bound round her eyelids. A doll she had dressed lay neai upon the ground. 1 took it up, and... | |
 | James Parton, John Porter Lamberton - 1888 - 588 pages
...head, whose intellectual capacity and development were beautifully expressed in its graceful Dutline and its broad, open brow ; her dress, arranged by...her writing-book was on the desk she leaned upon. . . . Like other inmates of that house, she had a green ribbon bound around her eyelids. A doll she... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1890 - 444 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... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1891 - 376 pages
...Long before I looked upon her, the help had come. Her face was radiant with intelligence and pleasure. From the mournful ruin of such bereavement, there...gentle, tender, guileless, gratefulhearted being. I have extracted a few disjointed fragments of her history from an account written by that one man... | |
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