The borderers; or The wept of Wish-ton-Wish |
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... glance , escape the lightest- minded of their number during his exhortations , though the homilies of the old man were neither very brief nor particu- larly original . But devotion to the one great cause of their existence , austere ...
... glance , escape the lightest- minded of their number during his exhortations , though the homilies of the old man were neither very brief nor particu- larly original . But devotion to the one great cause of their existence , austere ...
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... glance he threw over his soiled dress , seemed to betray some familiarity already with the privations to which his host allud- ed . As neither of them however appeared disposed to waste further time on matters of such light moment , the ...
... glance he threw over his soiled dress , seemed to betray some familiarity already with the privations to which his host allud- ed . As neither of them however appeared disposed to waste further time on matters of such light moment , the ...
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... glance in which pride and suspicion were singularly blended , he resum- ed the discourse . " It is known , " he added , " that the grandfather of him the good people of these settlements have commissioned to bear their wants over sea ...
... glance in which pride and suspicion were singularly blended , he resum- ed the discourse . " It is known , " he added , " that the grandfather of him the good people of these settlements have commissioned to bear their wants over sea ...
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... glance that his eye shot over the face of the last speaker , was not without a gentle and interested expression . Instantly reco- vering his composure , he arose , and turning to the double leathern sack , which had been borne on the ...
... glance that his eye shot over the face of the last speaker , was not without a gentle and interested expression . Instantly reco- vering his composure , he arose , and turning to the double leathern sack , which had been borne on the ...
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... glance of the eye that the leathern sacks , which she had borne in mind ought to be transferred to the sleeping apartment of their guest , were gone ; and a mild and playful image of herself , who bore her name , no less than most of ...
... glance of the eye that the leathern sacks , which she had borne in mind ought to be transferred to the sleeping apartment of their guest , were gone ; and a mild and playful image of herself , who bore her name , no less than most of ...
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Page 102 - Flashy people may burlesque these things, but when hundreds of the most sober people in a country, where they have as much mother- wit certainly as the rest of mankind, know them to be true, nothing but the absurd and froward spirit of Sadducism can question them.
Page 258 - In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end. For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth ; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
Page 129 - There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave, To tell us this. Ham. Why, right; you are in the right ; And so, without more circumstance at all, I hold it fit, that we shake hands, and part: You, as your business, and desire, shall point you; — For every man...
Page 101 - When yond same star that's westward from the pole Had made his course to illume that part of heaven Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, The bell then beating one, — Enter Ghost. Mar. Peace, break thee off ; look, where it comes again ! Ber.
Page 258 - Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
Page 173 - What are these, So wither'd, and so wild in their attire ; That look not like the inhabitants o
Page 259 - ... the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.