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Page 16
... such entertainments , the gladiators were regularly taught to fight ; they were carefully trained and exercised , and the profession of instructing them became an astonishing art , of which there brad never before been any example .
... such entertainments , the gladiators were regularly taught to fight ; they were carefully trained and exercised , and the profession of instructing them became an astonishing art , of which there brad never before been any example .
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... I was strongly impressed wish the idea , that the Abyssinians might be originally of this family , and that the house of Jonadab , the son of Rechab , who was never to want a man to stand before the Lord , might probably be found in ...
... I was strongly impressed wish the idea , that the Abyssinians might be originally of this family , and that the house of Jonadab , the son of Rechab , who was never to want a man to stand before the Lord , might probably be found in ...
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... but at last ; weary of waiting for letters which never arrived , though he had promised to write by every opportunity , and giving encouragement to the most disheartening reflections , she felt herself utterly unable to remain in ...
... but at last ; weary of waiting for letters which never arrived , though he had promised to write by every opportunity , and giving encouragement to the most disheartening reflections , she felt herself utterly unable to remain in ...
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Drawing a poniard from her pocket , which she always carried about her , determined never to be forced to the violation of her virtue , she was just going to plunge it into her heart , when she heard the turning of a key ...
Drawing a poniard from her pocket , which she always carried about her , determined never to be forced to the violation of her virtue , she was just going to plunge it into her heart , when she heard the turning of a key ...
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... it seems , of a fortune not much superior to their own , and whom , for that reason , and for the dread of being an inconvenience to him , they had never acquainted with the extremities to which they were actually driven .
... it seems , of a fortune not much superior to their own , and whom , for that reason , and for the dread of being an inconvenience to him , they had never acquainted with the extremities to which they were actually driven .
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