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... dark current between the ice was moving , and half a dozen crows , like yapping dogs , cawing and flying about and baiting the solemn , immobile creature . I remember my first coming on hepaticas in bloom , in mid - April , in a still ...
... dark current between the ice was moving , and half a dozen crows , like yapping dogs , cawing and flying about and baiting the solemn , immobile creature . I remember my first coming on hepaticas in bloom , in mid - April , in a still ...
Page 51
... dark and dark our woes ! Here the passion contained is far greater than in the meeting sonnet ; the danger is not just a cloud on the future , but imminent ; the full irony of the lovers ' situation is experienced . The coming tragedy ...
... dark and dark our woes ! Here the passion contained is far greater than in the meeting sonnet ; the danger is not just a cloud on the future , but imminent ; the full irony of the lovers ' situation is experienced . The coming tragedy ...
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... dark cross . They step along briskly and are wary and independent , not at all like the poor depressed crea- tures , small , thin , and half - asleep , which one sees in Mexican border towns , where they stand at a corner all day ...
... dark cross . They step along briskly and are wary and independent , not at all like the poor depressed crea- tures , small , thin , and half - asleep , which one sees in Mexican border towns , where they stand at a corner all day ...
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