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Africa air in motion America animals Antarctic Circle Arctic Circle Atlantic Atlantic Ocean Axis Bank blow called Canal carry causes Climate Clouds colour covered with Water distance drops earth's surface east England Equator Estuary flat Frigid Zones give the name globe height Hemisphere hills hull Indian Ocean Island Isthmus kettle last lesson Latitude look magnet means Meridian miles minerals moon Mount Blanc mountains move night North Pole Ocean Antarctic Ocean Ocean Arctic Ocean Pacific Ocean Plains Pole Star portion of land rain falls reach River Sahara sailors sand saw in last sea-level ship is sailing side sight Snowdon Sometimes South Pole speaking springs stars steam stone summer surface is covered tell Temperate Zones things told Torrid Zone touch of joy towns Tributary Tropic Tropic of Cancer tumbler turn vapour Volcanoes warm room wind winter
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55 ページ - Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens. Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
31 ページ - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
26 ページ - I'll make a commotion in every place!" So it swept with a bustle right through a great town, Creaking the signs and scattering down Shutters; and whisking, with merciless squalls, Old women's bonnets and gingerbread stalls. There never was heard a much lustier shout, As the apples and oranges...
36 ページ - Nor peace, nor ease, the heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But turning, trembles too.
21 ページ - Oh, tell me, pretty river ! Whence do thy waters flow ; And whither art thou roaming, So smoothly and so slow ? " My birthplace was the mountain ; My nurse, the April showers ; My cradle was a fountain O'ercurtained by wild flowers.
26 ページ - ... To see if their poultry were free from mishaps; The turkeys they gobbled, the geese screamed aloud, And the hens crept to roost in a terrified crowd; There was rearing of ladders, and logs laying on Where the thatch from the roof threatened soon to be gone. But the wind had...
65 ページ - Locks are tight, oblong enclosures, in the bed of the canal, furnished with gates at each end, which separate the higher from the lower parts of the canal. When a boat passes up the canal, the lower gates are opened, and the boat glides into the lock, after which the lower gates are shut A sluice, communicating with the upper part of the canal, is then opened, and the lock rapidly fills with water, elevating the boat on its surface. When the lock is filled to the highest water level, the upper gates...
22 ページ - mid meadowy banks I flirted with the flowers, That stooped with glowing lips, To woo me to their bowers. " But these bright scenes are o'er, 1 And darkly flows my wave ; I hear the ocean's roar, And there must be my grave.
26 ページ - THE WIND IN A FROLIC The wind one morning sprang up from sleep, Saying, "Now for a frolic! Now for a leap! Now for a madcap, galloping chase! I'll make a commotion in every place!" So it swept with a bustle right through a great town, Creaking the signs, and scattering down Shutters, and whisking, with merciless squalls, Old women's bonnets and gingerbread stalls. There never was heard a much lustier shout...
63 ページ - It happened, almost every day, that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm to tug them out of the slough.