 ... began to toll, and Thomas Newcome's hands outside the bed feebly beat time. And just as the last bell struck, a peculiar sweet smile shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little, and quickly said, " Adsum! " and fell back. It was the word...  Notes and Queries - Sida 2261888Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley - 1890 - 430 sidor
...and quickly said, 'ADSUM,' and .fell back. It was the word we used at school when names were called ; and lo, he whose heart was as that of a little child...his name, and stood in the presence of the Master.' ADULLAMITES, subs. (parliamentary). — A nickname, in the first instance, for a party of seceding... | |
 | Charles Augustus Maude Fennell - 1891 - 868 sidor
...quickly said, "Adsum!" and fell back. It was the word we used at school, when names were called over; and lo, he, whose heart was as that of a little child,...his name, and stood in the presence of The Master: THACKERAY, Newcomes, Vol. n. ch. xlii. p. 445 (1879). 1887 "The graves of the household". ..have more... | |
 | Herman Charles Merivale, Sir Frank Thomas Marzials - 1891 - 308 sidor
...said ' Adsum ! ' and fell back. It was the word we used at school when names were called ; and, so, he whose heart was as that of a little child, had...to his name and stood in the presence of the Master ! " " The Newcomes " ended, Thackeray turned his thoughts westward once more, and determined to make... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 sidor
...quickly said " Adsum ! " and fell back. It was the word we used at school, when names were called ; and lo, he, whose heart was as that of a little child,...his name, and stood in the presence of The Master. 479 DICKENS 1812-1870 CHARLES DICKENS was born at Portsmouth, England, in 1812, and died June 9, 1870.... | |
 | William Alexander - 1892 - 376 sidor
...shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little and quickly said ' adsuml and fell back — and he whose heart was as that of a little child, had answered his name, and stood in the presence of the Master."3 Local tradition will have it that the atlsum was... | |
 | Richard Gilmour - 1894 - 418 sidor
...quickly said " Adsum ! " and fell back. It was the word we used at school, when names were called ; and lo, he, whose heart was as that of a little child,...his name, and stood in the presence of The Master. THACKERAY. The character of Colonel Newcome is one of the most beautiful in English fiction, and had... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1894 - 136 sidor
...and quickly said ' Adsum!' and fell back. It was the word we used at school when names were called ; and lo, he, whose heart was as that of a little child,...his name and stood in the presence of The Master.'' I have shrunk from learning about Senator GIBSON'S last days, for pain and he had long known each other,... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1905 - 700 sidor
...quickly said, 'Adsum,' — and fell back. It was the word we used at school when names were called ; and, lo, he whose heart •was as that of a little...his name, and stood in the presence of the Master ! " CHAPTER V. ESMOND AND THE VIRGINIANS. THE novel with which we are now going to deal I regard as... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 630 sidor
...quickly said, " Adsum ! " and fell back. It was the word we used at school when names were called; and lo, he, whose heart was as that of a little child,...his name, and stood in the presence of The Master. FROM 'THE CHRONICLE OF THE DRUM ' A: PARIs, hard by the Maine barriers, Whoever will choose to repair,... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 sidor
...quickly said "At/sum/" and fell back It was the word we used at school when the names were called ; and lo, he, whose heart was as that of a little child,...his name, and stood in the presence of The Master. .0*0 OLD FABLES WITH A NEW PURPOSE. INTRODUCTION TO "THE NEWCOMES." CROW, who had flown away with a... | |
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