Books with author Vici MacDonald

Excerpt from Gum Boughs and Wattle Bloom: Gathered on Australian Hills and PlainsWhence gathered - The locusts' glad chirrup May furnish a stave The ring of a rowel and stirrup The rush of a wave. The chaunt of the marsh frog in rushes, That chimes through the pauses and hushes Of nightfall, the torrent that gushes, The tempests that rave.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Will O' the Wisp Flashe: A Selection of Stories, Sketches, Poems, &C., Including Lectures by Old Blogg, and Fellows I Have KnownHaving of late had more time at my disposal than I could devise profitable means of employing, I set about killing it by preparing the present volume for the press. The work has afforded me considerable pleasure, and has, doubtless, helped to curtail the amount of that other work Which a certain obnoxious personage is said always to fincl for idle hands to do. If the perusal of the book affords a few pleasant half-hours to its readers I will consider that my labour has not been in vain, and will feel a thousand times repaid.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Gum Boughs and Wattle Bloom: Gathered on Australian Hills and PlainsWhence gathered - The locusts' glad chirrup May furnish a stave The ring of a rowel and stirrup The rush of a wave. The chaunt of the marsh frog in rushes, That chimes through the pauses and hushes Of nightfall, the torrent that gushes, The tempests that rave.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Sword of the KingThere hangs yet (and long may it so hang!) in our great hall at Drayton a sword - not in its sheath, but naked, and broken some two parts of its length from the hilt, but shining bright as on the day it was first drawn by the great prince that once used it. Beneath it, also against the wall above the hearth, is the Scabbard.It was on a fine morning of the fall of last year, as I was tending Ned's new Dutch garden, that I heard loud and childish altercation proceeding through the open windows of the great hall above me. And there in a window arose the fair gilded head of my seven-year Mary, my first and best gift to Ned, and his best to me.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Will O' the Wisp Flashe: A Selection of Stories, Sketches, Poems, &C., Including Lectures by Old Blogg, and Fellows I Have KnownHaving of late had more time at my disposal than I could devise profitable means of employing, I set about killing it by preparing the present volume for the press. The work has afforded me considerable pleasure, and has, doubtless, helped to curtail the amount of that other work Which a certain obnoxious personage is said always to fincl for idle hands to do. If the perusal of the book affords a few pleasant half-hours to its readers I will consider that my labour has not been in vain, and will feel a thousand times repaid.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.