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... head and beard , showing little sign of old age ; there was a pleasant , kindly expression in his bright eye , which seemed to glitter with suppressed fun and humour , and a joke seemed to be ever playing round the corners of his ...
... head and beard , showing little sign of old age ; there was a pleasant , kindly expression in his bright eye , which seemed to glitter with suppressed fun and humour , and a joke seemed to be ever playing round the corners of his ...
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... head , so as to form a com- plete covering , or hood , out of which her dark eyes seemed positively to glitter . The rather short petticoats , I had before remarked , conduced to the appearance of grace and activity which every motion ...
... head , so as to form a com- plete covering , or hood , out of which her dark eyes seemed positively to glitter . The rather short petticoats , I had before remarked , conduced to the appearance of grace and activity which every motion ...
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... heads , and the water - ouzel , the prettiest and most calum- niated bird that frequents the mountain stream , ever and anon flitted before us , and settling on a nearly submerged stone , faced us with spotless white waistcoat and ...
... heads , and the water - ouzel , the prettiest and most calum- niated bird that frequents the mountain stream , ever and anon flitted before us , and settling on a nearly submerged stone , faced us with spotless white waistcoat and ...
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... head , narrow , retreating forehead , and eyes , bleared by the smoke , which looked in any direction excepting that to which their owner presumedly addressed himself . Ap- parently he was more than half drunk ; in fact , the fumes ...
... head , narrow , retreating forehead , and eyes , bleared by the smoke , which looked in any direction excepting that to which their owner presumedly addressed himself . Ap- parently he was more than half drunk ; in fact , the fumes ...
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... head of its projector ; yet no one surely can or should object to so simple a measure as the dis- arming the poacher , especially when it can be done without injury or inconvenience to anyone else . mountain pony , approaching me ; Jim ...
... head of its projector ; yet no one surely can or should object to so simple a measure as the dis- arming the poacher , especially when it can be done without injury or inconvenience to anyone else . mountain pony , approaching me ; Jim ...
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Page 115 - Yet," upon the river; Some jealousy of some one's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted; A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows, — and then we parted. We parted: months and years rolled by; We met again four summers after. Our parting was all sob and sigh, — Our meeting was all mirth and laughter; For, in my heart's most secret cell, There had been many other lodgers; And she was not the ball-room's belle, But only Mrs. — Something — Rogers!