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Page 55
... passed through . unopposed ship - master , and man - master of so But if Amber Bell could possibly have had any many years ! thing to blush at , she would have blushed un- seen , for she did waste her sweetness on the desert air . Yet ...
... passed through . unopposed ship - master , and man - master of so But if Amber Bell could possibly have had any many years ! thing to blush at , she would have blushed un- seen , for she did waste her sweetness on the desert air . Yet ...
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... passed from before his eyes ; in their place came scales of ice ; he seemed looking at the world through a lurid , glacial prism . How had it been on the quarter - deck of the Siren ? Scarcely had his arms enfolded the only remnant of ...
... passed from before his eyes ; in their place came scales of ice ; he seemed looking at the world through a lurid , glacial prism . How had it been on the quarter - deck of the Siren ? Scarcely had his arms enfolded the only remnant of ...
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... passed through all the vicissitudes of a life in the wilderness swarming with Indians . Jovaca , turning her beaming ... passing in their way some copper mines worked abandoned a second trapping expedition on which he was preparing to ...
... passed through all the vicissitudes of a life in the wilderness swarming with Indians . Jovaca , turning her beaming ... passing in their way some copper mines worked abandoned a second trapping expedition on which he was preparing to ...
Page 84
... passed near the mansion of Jovaca's father , and stopped to make him a visit . The old man was overjoyed to see him , and took him to his arms in a long and fervent embrace . The wound in the young hunter's breast was not yet healed ...
... passed near the mansion of Jovaca's father , and stopped to make him a visit . The old man was overjoyed to see him , and took him to his arms in a long and fervent embrace . The wound in the young hunter's breast was not yet healed ...
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... passed the Indian vil- lage which they had set on fire , over which now stood a column of smoke , a silent , mournful mon- ument of the desolation at its base . They look- ed at it with a grim satisfaction as they thought of their ...
... passed the Indian vil- lage which they had set on fire , over which now stood a column of smoke , a silent , mournful mon- ument of the desolation at its base . They look- ed at it with a grim satisfaction as they thought of their ...
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Page 280 - Past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Page 407 - The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
Page 414 - Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Great Steward of Scotland, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.
Page 265 - His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void; And sure the eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd.
Page 272 - ... the harpsichord. When he had finished, he knelt down and prayed aloud for her, and then for his family, and then for the nation, concluding with a prayer for himself, that it might please God to avert his heavy calamity from him, but if not, to give him resignation to submit. He then burst into tears, and his reason again fled.
Page 51 - Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
Page 272 - ... saw in it a little surprise, but by no means any displeasure, to see me of the party. The little princess went up to Mrs. Delany, of whom she is very fond, and behaved like a little angel to her. She then, with a look of inquiry and recollection, came behind Mrs. Delany to look at me.
Page 271 - ... the parade, and turning from side to side to see everybody as she passed ; for all the terracers stand up against the walls, to make a clear passage for the royal family the moment they come in sight. Then followed the King and Queen, no less delighted with the joy of their little darling.
Page 288 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Page 130 - ... merchant becomes in the course of his business the master and governor of large masses of men in a more direct, though less confessed way, than a military officer or pastor; so that on him falls, in great part, the responsibility for the kind of life they lead: and it becomes his duty, not only to be always considering how to produce what he sells, in the purest and cheapest forms, but how to make the various employments involved in the production, or transference of it, most beneficial to the...