Prose,Abraham Small. William Brown, printer, 1824 |
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... sides, and chest; with legs as multitudinous, resembling in colour and motion the pillars of sand in an African whirlwind. His twin faces were frightfully distorted ; they glared, they grinned, they spat, they railed, and hissed, and ...
... sides, and chest; with legs as multitudinous, resembling in colour and motion the pillars of sand in an African whirlwind. His twin faces were frightfully distorted ; they glared, they grinned, they spat, they railed, and hissed, and ...
Page 11
... side, as if the man in the moon, from that astounding elevation, had leapt upon him, broken through his ribs, and crushed out his heart ; while a voice, more terrible than he had ever heard during the French Revolution, from the tribune ...
... side, as if the man in the moon, from that astounding elevation, had leapt upon him, broken through his ribs, and crushed out his heart ; while a voice, more terrible than he had ever heard during the French Revolution, from the tribune ...
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... side, — and presently it was no more. That wreck of a chivalrous age has stood, even as a ruin, for many generations, but such is the infinite vicissitude of glory and loveliness in landscape, that there is no hazard in saying, it never ...
... side, — and presently it was no more. That wreck of a chivalrous age has stood, even as a ruin, for many generations, but such is the infinite vicissitude of glory and loveliness in landscape, that there is no hazard in saying, it never ...
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... side of the Tweed; but the thing itself is one of the beautiful and inimitable characteristics of our modest and not too highly cultivated north-country women. I, as usual, lay by, and did not attempt to make myself particularly ami ...
... side of the Tweed; but the thing itself is one of the beautiful and inimitable characteristics of our modest and not too highly cultivated north-country women. I, as usual, lay by, and did not attempt to make myself particularly ami ...
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... side, ready to lay hands on him, if he should attempt to plunge either on board or over-board. The poor animal behaved as well as could be expected, though I kept watching his heels very suspiciously, wishing most fervently, that if he ...
... side, ready to lay hands on him, if he should attempt to plunge either on board or over-board. The poor animal behaved as well as could be expected, though I kept watching his heels very suspiciously, wishing most fervently, that if he ...
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