Schinderhannes, the Robber of the RhineSmith, Elder, and Company, 1833 - 318 pages |
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... leaned for support against the door - post . " Thunder of heaven ! " cried one of the gamesters , rushing past him ; " it is of no use , I will play no more ! What , Benzel , art thou asleep - or ruined THE ROBBER OF THE RHINE . 19.
... leaned for support against the door - post . " Thunder of heaven ! " cried one of the gamesters , rushing past him ; " it is of no use , I will play no more ! What , Benzel , art thou asleep - or ruined THE ROBBER OF THE RHINE . 19.
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... door , and knocked so loud and long that the whole neighbourhood resounded with the din . Even to this there was no answer ; but , on his repeating the applica- tion , a thin querulous voice within uttered faintly some religious ...
... door , and knocked so loud and long that the whole neighbourhood resounded with the din . Even to this there was no answer ; but , on his repeating the applica- tion , a thin querulous voice within uttered faintly some religious ...
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... door without uttering another word . Ida was lost to him for ever ! Well did he know her mother's strength of purpose , as well as worldly cun- ning . The very direction they had taken was probably a feigned one ; and even had he been ...
... door without uttering another word . Ida was lost to him for ever ! Well did he know her mother's strength of purpose , as well as worldly cun- ning . The very direction they had taken was probably a feigned one ; and even had he been ...
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... door . His low knock was unanswered ; he knocked again , louder and louder . The sound echoed through the in- terior , and dying away in the distant galleries , left all as silent as before . He tried the latch , but without hope , and ...
... door . His low knock was unanswered ; he knocked again , louder and louder . The sound echoed through the in- terior , and dying away in the distant galleries , left all as silent as before . He tried the latch , but without hope , and ...
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... door at all ; and if detected in her progress to the upper apartments , could make her escape by passages in which any other than one accustomed to them from childhood would require the clue of Ariadne . The night she chose was dark ...
... door at all ; and if detected in her progress to the upper apartments , could make her escape by passages in which any other than one accustomed to them from childhood would require the clue of Ariadne . The night she chose was dark ...
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Page 58 - BY THE rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 34 - He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head. He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone : And mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Page 61 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 61 - It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband; and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore. The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Page 59 - O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
Page 175 - Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
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