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... arms alone could bend and break down the stubborn oak after a few strokes of the axe , and his shoulders could bear its vast weight with all its leafy branches . On days of rejoicing , in the midst of the games which the young archers ...
... arms alone could bend and break down the stubborn oak after a few strokes of the axe , and his shoulders could bear its vast weight with all its leafy branches . On days of rejoicing , in the midst of the games which the young archers ...
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... arms as if to embrace a rival worthy of himself . But if it happened that the quiver was emptied in vain , and no one had struck the dove ; if the bird , tired of its useless struggles , was perched upon the top of the mast , and ...
... arms as if to embrace a rival worthy of himself . But if it happened that the quiver was emptied in vain , and no one had struck the dove ; if the bird , tired of its useless struggles , was perched upon the top of the mast , and ...
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... same timid silent boy , when , on return- ing to the cottage , he ran to throw him- self into his mother's arms . Tender , caressing , and obedient to her slightest wishes , how happy did this dear child . render 22 WILLIAM TELL .
... same timid silent boy , when , on return- ing to the cottage , he ran to throw him- self into his mother's arms . Tender , caressing , and obedient to her slightest wishes , how happy did this dear child . render 22 WILLIAM TELL .
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... arm his aged father , and holding by his other hand his daughter , the only pledge that remained of a wife whose loss he still lamented . Tell waited for them at the door of his dwelling . seat was always ready for the old man , and a ...
... arm his aged father , and holding by his other hand his daughter , the only pledge that remained of a wife whose loss he still lamented . Tell waited for them at the door of his dwelling . seat was always ready for the old man , and a ...
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... supporting the tottering steps of the wretched old man . His right arm leaned upon a stick , and his left upon the arm of the unhappy Clara . At every step he called upon 66 Tell , and extending his arms to meet him , A NEW KING . 37.
... supporting the tottering steps of the wretched old man . His right arm leaned upon a stick , and his left upon the arm of the unhappy Clara . At every step he called upon 66 Tell , and extending his arms to meet him , A NEW KING . 37.
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