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... look charmingly , " etc. So that we may expect soon to hear , " She seems ignorantly ; " " He became quite crazily , " etc .; and to be unable any longer to make the distinc- tion between " He feels warmly , " and " he feels warm ...
... look charmingly , " etc. So that we may expect soon to hear , " She seems ignorantly ; " " He became quite crazily , " etc .; and to be unable any longer to make the distinc- tion between " He feels warmly , " and " he feels warm ...
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... looks amazin ' different , and smells amazin ' different , I can tell you.- Major Downing , p . 43 . - Mr. Magwire is a steady , well - meanin ' man — and has got along amazin ' pros- perous in the world ; but he has dreadful curious ...
... looks amazin ' different , and smells amazin ' different , I can tell you.- Major Downing , p . 43 . - Mr. Magwire is a steady , well - meanin ' man — and has got along amazin ' pros- perous in the world ; but he has dreadful curious ...
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... Look at these bank - bills , " said the stranger ; " keep those that are good , and return me the bad . " " I guess the whole pile are bogus , " said Confidence Bob , as he turned over his roll . North , The Slave of the Lamp , p . 33 ...
... Look at these bank - bills , " said the stranger ; " keep those that are good , and return me the bad . " " I guess the whole pile are bogus , " said Confidence Bob , as he turned over his roll . North , The Slave of the Lamp , p . 33 ...
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... looks like a first chop article . Sam Slick in England , ch . 2 . I went to board at a famous establishment in Broadway , where sundry young merchants of the first chop were wont to board . - Perils of Pearl Street . CHORE . A small ...
... looks like a first chop article . Sam Slick in England , ch . 2 . I went to board at a famous establishment in Broadway , where sundry young merchants of the first chop were wont to board . - Perils of Pearl Street . CHORE . A small ...
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... look twice be- fore I could see her at all . -Sam Slick , Human Nature , p . 184 . - Cisco . The popular name of a fish of the herring kind which abounds in Lake Ontario , particularly in Chaumont Bay at the east end , where thousands ...
... look twice be- fore I could see her at all . -Sam Slick , Human Nature , p . 184 . - Cisco . The popular name of a fish of the herring kind which abounds in Lake Ontario , particularly in Chaumont Bay at the east end , where thousands ...
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Page 276 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting as a principle in which the rights, and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
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Page 447 - But it suddenly ceased some time before day ; and as they had no communication with any of the enemy's ships, they did not know whether the fort had surrendered, or the attack upon it been abandoned.
Page 25 - Then fill to-night, with hearts as light, To loves as gay and fleeting As bubbles that swim on the beaker's brim, And break on the lips while meeting.
Page 448 - O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming! And the rockets...
Page 68 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 295 - Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the Union of the whole. The North, in an unrestrained...
Page 280 - ... and richness, and power, and blessing; that they had apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, and evangelists ; the same order, the same priesthood, the same ordinances, gifts, powers, and blessing, as was enjoyed on the eastern continent ; that the people were cut off...
Page 280 - ... enjoyed on the eastern continent ; that the people were cut off" in consequence of their transgressions; that the last of their prophets who existed among them was commanded to write an abridgment of their prophecies, history...
Page 413 - Orleans become marts for legitimate merchandise alone, or else the rye-fields and wheat-fields of Massachusetts and New York must again be surrendered by their farmers to slave culture and to the production of slaves, and Boston and New York become once more markets for trade in the bodies and souls of men.