Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge, Volume 7Redfield and Lindsay, 1840 |
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... heart beat as the hand grasped the gun , the blade . In the direc- tion of the enemy , all was hushed ; this silence , mayhap , was ominous . Did none within that camp gaze with mistrust upon the dark and wood- capped hills of Gowanus ...
... heart beat as the hand grasped the gun , the blade . In the direc- tion of the enemy , all was hushed ; this silence , mayhap , was ominous . Did none within that camp gaze with mistrust upon the dark and wood- capped hills of Gowanus ...
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... heart sym- pathises with the heart - thaw of memory . Beneath the fight - scene , the dead are soon to rejoin those who perished there . A grave - garden has been laid out among the hills of Gowanus ; and beneath the trees , quiet tomb ...
... heart sym- pathises with the heart - thaw of memory . Beneath the fight - scene , the dead are soon to rejoin those who perished there . A grave - garden has been laid out among the hills of Gowanus ; and beneath the trees , quiet tomb ...
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... heart as these ; and who that scarlet tanager , no doubt its own parent , was sees its aspirations rise to this height , would re- seen fluttering round the cage , endeavoring to get frain from being an ornithologist - living , as one ...
... heart as these ; and who that scarlet tanager , no doubt its own parent , was sees its aspirations rise to this height , would re- seen fluttering round the cage , endeavoring to get frain from being an ornithologist - living , as one ...
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... heart - Ducacet of Navarre- Count Robert of Parisian blood - the warlike priest of Puy- Tancred , the brave Sicilian knight , and Warwick's giant Guy . These were the leaders who awoke the clarion of war , And rang from Europe's ...
... heart - Ducacet of Navarre- Count Robert of Parisian blood - the warlike priest of Puy- Tancred , the brave Sicilian knight , and Warwick's giant Guy . These were the leaders who awoke the clarion of war , And rang from Europe's ...
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... heart , of her amiable disposition , of the sweetness of her temper , of her prudence , of her devotion to him . Let nothing upon any occasion ever les- ment every day : he should have much more rea- sen that opinion . On the contrary ...
... heart , of her amiable disposition , of the sweetness of her temper , of her prudence , of her devotion to him . Let nothing upon any occasion ever les- ment every day : he should have much more rea- sen that opinion . On the contrary ...
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Page 348 - Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair : and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.