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... hope , now , from this arose some of my fretfulness and peevish tempers ; for although it was no excuse for giving way to them , it had doubtless some share in producing them . I have , therefore , little doubt but my ungovernable ...
... hope , now , from this arose some of my fretfulness and peevish tempers ; for although it was no excuse for giving way to them , it had doubtless some share in producing them . I have , therefore , little doubt but my ungovernable ...
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... hope of being able even yet to go , I crept softly up stairs , bearing all my mother needed for the night ; and then , after one more anxious peep out of the window , which showed me a very cloudy and windy sky , retired to my little ...
... hope of being able even yet to go , I crept softly up stairs , bearing all my mother needed for the night ; and then , after one more anxious peep out of the window , which showed me a very cloudy and windy sky , retired to my little ...
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... hope I shall soon grow up to be a woman , and help you , mother , ' replied I , bridling and flushing with great delight at her praise . " God bless you , my darling , ' answered she with a deep sigh , and make you a comfort to your ...
... hope I shall soon grow up to be a woman , and help you , mother , ' replied I , bridling and flushing with great delight at her praise . " God bless you , my darling , ' answered she with a deep sigh , and make you a comfort to your ...
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... hope flitted through my mind , that my father's vessel might be one of the arrivals , either just moored at the quay , or else far out in the offing , hoping to catch the evening tide . However , as soon as I reached the quay one part ...
... hope flitted through my mind , that my father's vessel might be one of the arrivals , either just moored at the quay , or else far out in the offing , hoping to catch the evening tide . However , as soon as I reached the quay one part ...
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... hope you are not going to be away as long as father always is . ' ' No , child , ' replied Uncle David cheeringly ; ' I hope to be back to eat my Christmas dinner with you all ; and if your father is longer when he is away , he is ...
... hope you are not going to be away as long as father always is . ' ' No , child , ' replied Uncle David cheeringly ; ' I hope to be back to eat my Christmas dinner with you all ; and if your father is longer when he is away , he is ...
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Page 20 - twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane— as I do here.
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Page 98 - At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes ; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow ! Christ save us all from a death like this On the reef of Norman's Woe ! THE LUCK OF EDENHALL.
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Page 116 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Page 42 - So little to be loved, and thou so much, That I should ill requite thee to constrain Thy unbound spirit into bonds again. Thou, as a gallant bark from Albion's coast (The storms all weather'd and the ocean cross'd) Shoots...
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