 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
 | Edward F. Payne - 1927 - 354 pages
...about a head whose intellectual capacity and development were beautifully expressed in its graceful outline, and its broad open brow; her dress arranged...gentle, tender, guileless, gratefulhearted being. Laura's teacher-companion wrote in her diary under the date of January 29, 1842: To-day Laura had the... | |
 | Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards - 1928 - 190 pages
...about a head whose intellectual capacity and development were beautifully expressed in its graceful outline and its broad, open brow; her dress, arranged by herself, was a pattern of neatness and sim64 plicity; the work she had knitted lay beside her; her writing-book was on the desk she leaned... | |
 | Dorothy Herrmann - 1999 - 422 pages
...about a head, whose intellectual capacity and development were beautifully expressed in its graceful outline, and its broad open brow; her dress, arranged...guileless, grateful-hearted being. Like other inmates ofthat house she had a green ribbon bound round her eyelids. A doll she had dressed lay near upon the... | |
 | Mary Klages - 1999 - 272 pages
...about a head, whose intellectual capacity and development were beautifully impressed in its graceful outline, and its broad open brow; her dress, arranged...beside her; her writing-book was on the desk she leaned on. 11 Dickens here describes all the attributes associated with a normal girl, whose intelligence... | |
 | Sally Hobart Alexander, Robert Joseph Alexander - 2008 - 124 pages
...intelligence and pleasure. Her hair, braided by her own hands, was bound about" her head, Dickens wrote. "Her dress, arranged by herself, was a pattern of...her writing-book was on the desk she leaned upon. . . . Like other inmates of that house, she had a green ribbon bound round her eyelids. A doll she... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1844 - 598 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 - 1893 - 560 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... | |
 | 1880 - 464 pages
...about a head whose intellectual capacity and development were beautifully expressed in ita graceful outline, and its broad, open brow ; her dress, 'arranged...simplicity ; the work she had knitted lay beside her ; her writing book was on the desk she leaned upon. From the mournful ruin of such bereavement there had... | |
 | 1880 - 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...simplicity ; the work she had knitted lay beside her ; her writing book was on the desk she leaned upon. From the mournful ruin of such bereavement there had... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1903 - 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 had...gentle, tender, guileless, . grateful-hearted being. I have extracted a few fragments of her history from an account written by that one man who has made... | |
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