 | Henryk Sienkiewicz - Poland - 1893 - 560 pages
...at the fence, then, of hunger, If only near thee." But after a certain time that movement began to decrease, and at last stopped completely. A silence...her bright head. " Oh, Michael, so pleasant ! ai, ai ! Did you not hear what that man was singing ? " Here she repeated the last words of the little song,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 498 pages
...to her husband; and seeing that his eyes were open, she said: — "Michael, you are not sleeping." M It is a wonder, but I cannot sleep. " " It is pleasant for you here ? a " Pleasant. But for you ? " Basia nodded her bright head. " O Michael, so pleasant ! ai, ai ! Did... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 682 pages
...at the fence, then, of hunger, If only near thee." But after a certain time that movement began to decrease, and at last stopped completely. A silence...Pleasant. But for you ? " Basia nodded her bright head. " O Michael, so pleasant ! ai, ai ! Did you not hear what that man was singing ? " Here she repeated... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897 - 490 pages
...at the fence, then, of hunger, If only near thee." But after a certain time that movement began to decrease, and at last stopped completely. A silence...Pleasant. But for you ? " Basia nodded her bright head. " O Michael, so pleasant ! ai, ai ! Did you not hear what that man was singing ? " Here she repeated... | |
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But after a certain time that movement began to decrease, and at last stopped completely. A silence set in which was broken only by the distant sound of the hammers breaking the cliffs, and the calls of the sentries on the walls. That silence, the moonlight,... 