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... pointing to the vast sheet of water he should strike a shoal now , and capsize !
sweeping before them , urged that to proceed the skiff ' s but an egg - shell at the
best , and wi ' further before daylight would be an act of four living , human souls
...
... pointing to the vast sheet of water he should strike a shoal now , and capsize !
sweeping before them , urged that to proceed the skiff ' s but an egg - shell at the
best , and wi ' further before daylight would be an act of four living , human souls
...
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Gad ! if that girl were at the countenances of the three first arrivals , a living ,
breathing creature , I should be almost he knew not which to admire most - the
dash- tempted to cut the heiress for her sake . Give ing , fashionable looking
Cornelia ...
Gad ! if that girl were at the countenances of the three first arrivals , a living ,
breathing creature , I should be almost he knew not which to admire most - the
dash- tempted to cut the heiress for her sake . Give ing , fashionable looking
Cornelia ...
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a beauty that we must intimately know , justly What a study for painting or poetry !
She to appreciate - a beauty lighted up in conversa - seems like a fine statue ,
animated with a living tion , where the mind shines as it were through soul .
a beauty that we must intimately know , justly What a study for painting or poetry !
She to appreciate - a beauty lighted up in conversa - seems like a fine statue ,
animated with a living tion , where the mind shines as it were through soul .
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And their madness grew to a frenzy wild , And the weakest , stricken first , Made a
terrible meal - - and their frothing blood A draught for terrible thirst ; And so of the
living the living ate , And eating the living the living died , A pitiful , terrible fate .
And their madness grew to a frenzy wild , And the weakest , stricken first , Made a
terrible meal - - and their frothing blood A draught for terrible thirst ; And so of the
living the living ate , And eating the living the living died , A pitiful , terrible fate .
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Charles felt this ; , arm , and listening with marked pleasure to and , secure in his
own calculations , determined the polished persiflage , of a young man of brilto
be in his style of living more liberal than liant position in society , but whose ...
Charles felt this ; , arm , and listening with marked pleasure to and , secure in his
own calculations , determined the polished persiflage , of a young man of brilto
be in his style of living more liberal than liant position in society , but whose ...
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Page 151 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
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Page 152 - DEATH OF AN INFANT. Death found strange beauty on that cherub brow, And dashed it out. There was a tint of rose On cheek and lip ; — he touched the veins with ice, And the rose faded. Forth from those blue eyes There spake a wishful tenderness, — a doubt Whether to grieve or sleep, which innocence Alone can wear.