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Squinty could look out, but the slats were as close together as those in a chicken coop, and the little pig could not get out.
SQUINTY THE COMICAL PIGRICHARD BARNUMThere was no doubt thought of his own loss in this question: yet there was, one may hope, a germ of solicitude for the mother too.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLY"The Smoker," and "Mother and Daughter," a triptych, are two of her principal pictures.
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS, FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.D.CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENTNow first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLSThe mother's lips could not finish the charge she was about to put upon her innocent child.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERThe Authorised Version has: “And as a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife married of a virgin.”
SOLOMON AND SOLOMONIC LITERATUREMONCURE DANIEL CONWAYHe returned shortly, to meet his mother standing in the doorway, with pale, affrighted face.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONHe wished her mother had not been quite such an appalling person, fat and painted.
ROSEMARY IN SEARCH OF A FATHERC. N. WILLIAMSONMr. Collingwood, taking the key from his mother, locked the little door in the boarding, after them.
THE BOARDED-UP HOUSEAUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMANAs Felipe talked with him, he perceived even more clearly how bitter and unjust his mother had been to Alessandro.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONWORDS RELATED TO MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKEN
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