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... lad , with a large appetite and a very ill - stored head . I Though I had not picked up much information at school , I had some companions , and they were generally the wildest and least manageable of all the boys of my age and standing ...
... lad , with a large appetite and a very ill - stored head . I Though I had not picked up much information at school , I had some companions , and they were generally the wildest and least manageable of all the boys of my age and standing ...
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... lads of our age , as also pretty fairly to sail a boat . When we returned home late in an evening , and I went back to supper , my poor old grandmother would complain bitterly of the anxiety I had caused her ; and when I saw her grief ...
... lads of our age , as also pretty fairly to sail a boat . When we returned home late in an evening , and I went back to supper , my poor old grandmother would complain bitterly of the anxiety I had caused her ; and when I saw her grief ...
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... day walking down High Street , Plymouth , when I saw advancing towards me a fine sailor - like looking lad , with a well - bronzed jovial countenance . INFLUENCE OF CHARLEY IFFLEY . 21 ' Why , Will 20 WILL WEATHERHELM .
... day walking down High Street , Plymouth , when I saw advancing towards me a fine sailor - like looking lad , with a well - bronzed jovial countenance . INFLUENCE OF CHARLEY IFFLEY . 21 ' Why , Will 20 WILL WEATHERHELM .
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... lad . He was a stout , short man , with huge , red , carroty whiskers , and a pock - marked face , small ferretty eyes , a round knob for a nose , and thick lips , which he smacked loudly both when speaking and after eating and drinking ...
... lad . He was a stout , short man , with huge , red , carroty whiskers , and a pock - marked face , small ferretty eyes , a round knob for a nose , and thick lips , which he smacked loudly both when speaking and after eating and drinking ...
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... lad decently brought up by good , religious people , and fairly educated , should have willingly submitted to live along with such people . At first I was startled , -I won't say shocked , -but then I thought it fine and manly , and ...
... lad decently brought up by good , religious people , and fairly educated , should have willingly submitted to live along with such people . At first I was startled , -I won't say shocked , -but then I thought it fine and manly , and ...
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Page 199 - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath : for it is written, Vengeance is mine ; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him ; if he thirst, give him drink : for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Page 79 - There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To take care of the life of poor Jack.
Page 271 - There is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and before the spring much may be changed.
Page 346 - Bear down, d'ye see, To our Admiral's lee ! ' 'No, no,' says the Frenchman, 'that can't be !' ' Then I must lug you along with me !
Page 346 - Frenchman laughed and thought it stuff, But they knew not the handful of men, how tough, On board of the Arethusa. On deck five hundred men did dance, The stoutest they could find in France; We with two hundred did advance On board of the Arethusa. Our captain hailed the Frenchman, 'Ho!