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... heads , like Blue Beard in the story books . " " You need not be much alarmed , " interposed Miss Strong , smiling ; " this old Palace is supposed to be haunted sometimes by the ghost of the great A GOOD SAMARITAN . 21.
... heads , like Blue Beard in the story books . " " You need not be much alarmed , " interposed Miss Strong , smiling ; " this old Palace is supposed to be haunted sometimes by the ghost of the great A GOOD SAMARITAN . 21.
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... head just in front of the muzzle of the gun , and the explosion blew it into a thousand pieces . The Field - Marshal Com- manding in Chief was naturally distressed at this untoward circumstance , and , mentioning the matter to the Queen ...
... head just in front of the muzzle of the gun , and the explosion blew it into a thousand pieces . The Field - Marshal Com- manding in Chief was naturally distressed at this untoward circumstance , and , mentioning the matter to the Queen ...
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... head up - stream , in the pebbly shallows , and now and then a noble salmon might be seen from the old grey bridge below the village of Holmcastle , which had made its way up past the filth of Preston , and other manufacturing towns ...
... head up - stream , in the pebbly shallows , and now and then a noble salmon might be seen from the old grey bridge below the village of Holmcastle , which had made its way up past the filth of Preston , and other manufacturing towns ...
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... Head of the Family heard of this ill- starred and ignominious match , he felt it his duty to make an example of the chief offender , and accordingly , before witnesses , he solemnly erased his name from the Family Pedigree , and gave ...
... Head of the Family heard of this ill- starred and ignominious match , he felt it his duty to make an example of the chief offender , and accordingly , before witnesses , he solemnly erased his name from the Family Pedigree , and gave ...
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... , by any outward signs or demonstrations . In his view , all love , all devotion , all honour was due to himself as Head of the Family , and to himself alone . CHAPTER VI . 66 EHRENBREITSTEIN . " YOYILFRED , the 50 EVELYN MANWARING .
... , by any outward signs or demonstrations . In his view , all love , all devotion , all honour was due to himself as Head of the Family , and to himself alone . CHAPTER VI . 66 EHRENBREITSTEIN . " YOYILFRED , the 50 EVELYN MANWARING .
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Page 203 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Page 62 - Oh, the wild joys of living ! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair. And the meal, the rich dates yellowed over with gold dust divine, And the...
Page 182 - Even so the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things. Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity; so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Page 21 - There's statues gracing This noble place in — All heathen gods And nymphs so fair ; Bold Neptune, Plutarch, And Nicodemus, All standing naked In the open air ! So now to finish This brave narration.
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Page 25 - ... just as if there were no such things in the world as daughters to be provided for; and he was perfectly content that it should be so.
Page 160 - This poem accompanied an address of congratulation to Her Majesty on the occasion of the...
Page 135 - Question — divide, bah ! bah ! the house divided. 192] [193 college of Physicians, and doomed ' him to two years' additional study, if he intended to try his fortune at the bar — and all this merely because he was not a member of the church of England, although his acquirements might be such as would reflect honour on any University in which he might graduate? With respect to the...