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... eyes ; namely , we had successfully passed the hall and the college ; and having worked like men , we were ready to play like boys . So while we smoked our short pipes we philoso- phized after our crude fashion , pitied the fel- lows ...
... eyes ; namely , we had successfully passed the hall and the college ; and having worked like men , we were ready to play like boys . So while we smoked our short pipes we philoso- phized after our crude fashion , pitied the fel- lows ...
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... eyes beneath strongly defiant black brows , a thin - lipped and rather wide mouth , with that square iron- looking jaw so often seen in Frenchwomen of the lower class . Not one moment elapsed before I felt positive I had seen that face ...
... eyes beneath strongly defiant black brows , a thin - lipped and rather wide mouth , with that square iron- looking jaw so often seen in Frenchwomen of the lower class . Not one moment elapsed before I felt positive I had seen that face ...
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... eyes deceive him , or was that really the smoke of the East Indiaman ? Yes , he felt sure of it . Then he saw a signal ; but the light danced about before his eyes like a treacherous will - o ' - the - wisp , and he felt as if his ...
... eyes deceive him , or was that really the smoke of the East Indiaman ? Yes , he felt sure of it . Then he saw a signal ; but the light danced about before his eyes like a treacherous will - o ' - the - wisp , and he felt as if his ...
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... eyes full on me , demanded point - blank , - sensitive in disposition . Vainly ; I might as well have talked to the ... eye I hardly knew how to meet this very sin- gular line of defence , which seemed to as- sume that no wrong had been ...
... eyes full on me , demanded point - blank , - sensitive in disposition . Vainly ; I might as well have talked to the ... eye I hardly knew how to meet this very sin- gular line of defence , which seemed to as- sume that no wrong had been ...
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... eyes bloodshot and glistening , his tongue bitten through , and his black lips streaked with foam . He was struggling with all his strength against imaginary demons , and shouting at the top of his voice that he was devil - possessed ...
... eyes bloodshot and glistening , his tongue bitten through , and his black lips streaked with foam . He was struggling with all his strength against imaginary demons , and shouting at the top of his voice that he was devil - possessed ...
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Page 434 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot, the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed; No costly lord, the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loathe his vegetable meal: But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.
Page 524 - The place of justice is a hallowed place; and therefore not only the Bench, but the foot pace and precincts and purprise thereof ought to be preserved without scandal and corruption.
Page 196 - Gallow .the very wanderers of the dark, And make them keep their caves : since I was man, Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never Remember to have heard : man's nature cannot carry The affliction nor the fear.
Page 292 - Whose color was extremely hectic ; Her grandmother for many a year Had fed the parish with her bounty ; Her second cousin was a peer, And Lord-Lieutenant of the county.
Page 86 - For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that I do not; but what I hate, that do I.
Page 69 - And Paul said; I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
Page 187 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 292 - Dark was her hair, her hand was white; Her voice was exquisitely tender; Her eyes were full of liquid light; I never saw a waist so slender; Her every look, her every smile, Shot right and left a score of arrows; I thought 'twas Venus from her isle, And wondered where she'd left her sparrows.
Page 179 - And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Page 196 - Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire ; and wast thou fain, poor father, To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw? Alack, alack! 'Tis wonder that thy life and wits at once Had not concluded all.