The prose works of Thomas HoodG.P. Putnam, 1869 - English poetry |
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... stand in the same row . Many persons will doubtless differ with me as to the inferences I have drawn from things seen and heard abroad . But we are all liable to mistakes : and I may have been as wrong in my specula- tions as was ...
... stand in the same row . Many persons will doubtless differ with me as to the inferences I have drawn from things seen and heard abroad . But we are all liable to mistakes : and I may have been as wrong in my specula- tions as was ...
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... standing on the domestic hearth . But , as Shakespeare says , a coward dies many times before his death , " and my uncle is certainly no exception to the canon . On an average , he has three or four attacks a week , so that at the end ...
... standing on the domestic hearth . But , as Shakespeare says , a coward dies many times before his death , " and my uncle is certainly no exception to the canon . On an average , he has three or four attacks a week , so that at the end ...
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... stand him ! upon deck . - By this time the motion of the vessel had considerably in- creased , and between fear and curiosity , and certain more physical motives , the whole of the company successively went above to enjoy what proved to ...
... stand him ! upon deck . - By this time the motion of the vessel had considerably in- creased , and between fear and curiosity , and certain more physical motives , the whole of the company successively went above to enjoy what proved to ...
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... stand . Indeed it would not have been easy to sleep , in spite of the concert that prevailed . First , a beam in one corner seemed labor , then another began groaning , - plank after plank chimed in with its peculiar creak , every ...
... stand . Indeed it would not have been easy to sleep , in spite of the concert that prevailed . First , a beam in one corner seemed labor , then another began groaning , - plank after plank chimed in with its peculiar creak , every ...
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... standing : she had gone down in shoal water , her stern resting on the bottom , whilst her bows .still lifted with the waves . " And the crew ? " The yellow- man significantly shook his head . " No boat could live in such a sea . " For ...
... standing : she had gone down in shoal water , her stern resting on the bottom , whilst her bows .still lifted with the waves . " And the crew ? " The yellow- man significantly shook his head . " No boat could live in such a sea . " For ...
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