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... least curiosity respecting the sources of these rivers ) could yet burn with universal enthusiasm and pride because their countryman had performed this difficult but utterly useless feat ? No ; that kind of thing would not go down at ...
... least curiosity respecting the sources of these rivers ) could yet burn with universal enthusiasm and pride because their countryman had performed this difficult but utterly useless feat ? No ; that kind of thing would not go down at ...
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... least have made his tunnel water - tight . That it leaked somewhere was plain , and that it should be suffered to go on leaking to the discomfort of travellers was simply intolerable . An inch of water , for instance , was more than an ...
... least have made his tunnel water - tight . That it leaked somewhere was plain , and that it should be suffered to go on leaking to the discomfort of travellers was simply intolerable . An inch of water , for instance , was more than an ...
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... least , if he had any suspicion of the truth , he kept it to himself . As they rose from their knees , Harold Clive took Laura's hand in his and just touched her forehead with his lips . Oh , how he longed to take her in his arms , she ...
... least , if he had any suspicion of the truth , he kept it to himself . As they rose from their knees , Harold Clive took Laura's hand in his and just touched her forehead with his lips . Oh , how he longed to take her in his arms , she ...
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... least ; on the contrary , she looked --- far younger than she had done that day in the Aberdeen Prison six weeks ago now . The expression of anxious perplexed thought was gone from her face ; there was a delicate , almost hectic flush ...
... least ; on the contrary , she looked --- far younger than she had done that day in the Aberdeen Prison six weeks ago now . The expression of anxious perplexed thought was gone from her face ; there was a delicate , almost hectic flush ...
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... least idea of . He by no means approved of this sudden mania for travelling on his master's part , and hinted as much in his character of nurse ; but the Colonel's answer was simply an order to pack his portman- teau and meet him at ...
... least idea of . He by no means approved of this sudden mania for travelling on his master's part , and hinted as much in his character of nurse ; but the Colonel's answer was simply an order to pack his portman- teau and meet him at ...
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Page 281 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
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Page 11 - But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Page 223 - I can give not what men call love ; But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not : The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?
Page 291 - L , because he was so handsome and spirited a youth, and a king to the rest of us; and, instead of moping about in solitary corners, like some of us, he would mount the most mettlesome horse he could get, when but an imp no bigger than themselves, and make it carry him half over the...
Page 291 - And then I told how, when she came to die, her funeral was attended by a concourse of all the poor, and some of the gentry too, of the...
Page 235 - MOST sweet it is with unuplifted eyes To pace the ground, if path be there or none. While a fair region round the traveller lies Which he forbears again to look upon ; Pleased rather with some soft ideal scene, The work of Fancy, or some happy tone Of meditation, slipping in between The beauty coming and the beauty gone.
Page 290 - ... watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish pond at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a great sulky pike hanging midway down the water in silent state, as if it mocked at their impertinent friskings.
Page 221 - Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banished lover, or some captive maid; They live, they speak, they breathe what love inspires, Warm from the soul, and faithful to its fires...
Page 232 - Many a green-gown has been given, Many a kiss, both odd and even: Many a glance, too, has been sent From out the eye, love's firmament: Many a jest told of the keys...