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... head Had lopped before the old Count was dead ; And Richard was home from Palestine , Home from the dungeon of Tiernstein , And many a Christian corpse had made , Ere the time in which the story is laid . But the fashion he set became ...
... head Had lopped before the old Count was dead ; And Richard was home from Palestine , Home from the dungeon of Tiernstein , And many a Christian corpse had made , Ere the time in which the story is laid . But the fashion he set became ...
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... head That seemed like gold a - chinking . " Twere wrong to infer from what you've read That Richard awoke with an aching head ; For nerves like his resisted With wonderful ease what we might deem Enough to stagger a Polypheme , And his ...
... head That seemed like gold a - chinking . " Twere wrong to infer from what you've read That Richard awoke with an aching head ; For nerves like his resisted With wonderful ease what we might deem Enough to stagger a Polypheme , And his ...
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... head still made amends ; For he never sang a malicious strain , And never was known to fail his friends . Who but he , when the captive king , By a brother betrayed , was left to rot , Would have gone disguised to seek and sing , Till ...
... head still made amends ; For he never sang a malicious strain , And never was known to fail his friends . Who but he , when the captive king , By a brother betrayed , was left to rot , Would have gone disguised to seek and sing , Till ...
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... head- land which here looks out upon the noble water - view of the Chesapeake , and by its breezy position as an agreeable refuge from the heats of summer . Our party , therefore , determined to set out upon a search for some relics of ...
... head- land which here looks out upon the noble water - view of the Chesapeake , and by its breezy position as an agreeable refuge from the heats of summer . Our party , therefore , determined to set out upon a search for some relics of ...
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... head with a slow ru- minative motion , as if he hoped by this action to disengage from it some pro- found moral reflections , and then began to enumerate how many of these good people he had helped to bury ; but be- fore he had well ...
... head with a slow ru- minative motion , as if he hoped by this action to disengage from it some pro- found moral reflections , and then began to enumerate how many of these good people he had helped to bury ; but be- fore he had well ...
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