Readings from the Best AuthorsArchibald Hamilton Bryce T. Nelson and sons, 1862 - 331 pages |
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Page 10
... fell off , and broke his collar bone . The bone was set , and he returned to Kensington in his coach . The jolting of the rough roads of that time made it necessary to reduce the fracture again . To a young and vigorous man such an ...
... fell off , and broke his collar bone . The bone was set , and he returned to Kensington in his coach . The jolting of the rough roads of that time made it necessary to reduce the fracture again . To a young and vigorous man such an ...
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... fell , and lies smashed far down there , against the masonry . Usher Maillard falls not - deftly , unerring he walks , with outspread palm . The Swiss holds a paper through his port- hole ; the shifty usher snatches it , and returns ...
... fell , and lies smashed far down there , against the masonry . Usher Maillard falls not - deftly , unerring he walks , with outspread palm . The Swiss holds a paper through his port- hole ; the shifty usher snatches it , and returns ...
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... fell ; the executioner showed it to the people , amid universal long - continued cries of Vive la République . " THE SAME SUBJECT . Is there a man's heart that thinks without pity of those long months and years of slow , wasting ...
... fell ; the executioner showed it to the people , amid universal long - continued cries of Vive la République . " THE SAME SUBJECT . Is there a man's heart that thinks without pity of those long months and years of slow , wasting ...
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... fell down in the midst of them with great violence upon the floor .. ...... Three days and three nights did he sit beside her who so soon was to have been his bride - and come or go who would into the room , he saw them not — his sight ...
... fell down in the midst of them with great violence upon the floor .. ...... Three days and three nights did he sit beside her who so soon was to have been his bride - and come or go who would into the room , he saw them not — his sight ...
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... fell asleep . The sun looked bright , the morning after , to every eye in the village but Le Fevre's and his afflicted son's ; the hand of Death pressed heavy upon his eyelids , and hardly could the wheel at the cistern turn round its ...
... fell asleep . The sun looked bright , the morning after , to every eye in the village but Le Fevre's and his afflicted son's ; the hand of Death pressed heavy upon his eyelids , and hardly could the wheel at the cistern turn round its ...
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