Cornertown Chronicles: New Legends of Old Lore. [With Illustrations.]Griffith and Farran, 1880 - 256 pages |
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... looked so very common- place to any one who came upon it from the great world , which , indeed , did not often happen ; but to those who had lived in it all their lives , it was as the very heart of beauty and peacefulness . It often ...
... looked so very common- place to any one who came upon it from the great world , which , indeed , did not often happen ; but to those who had lived in it all their lives , it was as the very heart of beauty and peacefulness . It often ...
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... looked across the meadows which sloped down the hill on which Cornertown was built . But this street , though it was a pleasant , straggling street enough , was not thought genteel -and the inhabitants of Cornertown were quite as ...
... looked across the meadows which sloped down the hill on which Cornertown was built . But this street , though it was a pleasant , straggling street enough , was not thought genteel -and the inhabitants of Cornertown were quite as ...
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... looked just the same whether you looked at it through an archway or not , but to Netta it was by no means the same , and somehow or other it seemed to her that the people who lived in THE GOLDEN WEDDING , & C . 15.
... looked just the same whether you looked at it through an archway or not , but to Netta it was by no means the same , and somehow or other it seemed to her that the people who lived in THE GOLDEN WEDDING , & C . 15.
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... looked as if it were meant for a statue scooped out of the wall , cool and clear , deep and mysterious : positively , when Netta sat bunched up on the lowest of the steep steps , there might have been nothing else but that well in the ...
... looked as if it were meant for a statue scooped out of the wall , cool and clear , deep and mysterious : positively , when Netta sat bunched up on the lowest of the steep steps , there might have been nothing else but that well in the ...
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... looked at the flowers , and even nodded and smiled at them , as if they were old friends , immediately retiring from the window , however , quite ashamed of herself . " I think I must be growing crazy , " she would say , as she sat down ...
... looked at the flowers , and even nodded and smiled at them , as if they were old friends , immediately retiring from the window , however , quite ashamed of herself . " I think I must be growing crazy , " she would say , as she sat down ...
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