John Gray: A Kentucky Tale of the Olden TimeLippincott, 1892 - 218 strani |
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... light shower of blows which sometimes fell upon his rounded flanks, William Penn merely gave that comforting switch of his bob tail by which he always expressed acquiescence in the small annoyances of his affluent mortality. Meanwhile ...
... light shower of blows which sometimes fell upon his rounded flanks, William Penn merely gave that comforting switch of his bob tail by which he always expressed acquiescence in the small annoyances of his affluent mortality. Meanwhile ...
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... light fell in solid sheets of soft radiance; with other spots of perpetual woodland twilight so dim that for ages no green shoot had sprung from the deep black vegetable mould ; blown softly to and fro across this pathway, cool pungent ...
... light fell in solid sheets of soft radiance; with other spots of perpetual woodland twilight so dim that for ages no green shoot had sprung from the deep black vegetable mould ; blown softly to and fro across this pathway, cool pungent ...
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... light wind ; his unshod feet, half covered by the long thick fetlocks, stepping noiselessly over the loamy earth ; the rims of his nostrils expanding like flexible ebony ; and in his filmy eyes that look of peace which is never seen in ...
... light wind ; his unshod feet, half covered by the long thick fetlocks, stepping noiselessly over the loamy earth ; the rims of his nostrils expanding like flexible ebony ; and in his filmy eyes that look of peace which is never seen in ...
Stran 647
... light of his tallow dip. But this was not an ordinary day, — being one that he had long waited for and was destined never to forget. At dusk the evening before, the post-rider, so tired that he had scarce strength to blow his horn, had ...
... light of his tallow dip. But this was not an ordinary day, — being one that he had long waited for and was destined never to forget. At dusk the evening before, the post-rider, so tired that he had scarce strength to blow his horn, had ...
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... light of my own past, that I firmly believe I shall be what I will, that I shall have what I want, and that I shall now go on rearing the structure of my life, to the last detail, just as I have long conceived it." She did not answer ...
... light of my own past, that I firmly believe I shall be what I will, that I shall have what I want, and that I shall now go on rearing the structure of my life, to the last detail, just as I have long conceived it." She did not answer ...
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Stran 5 - And Jobab died ; and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead. 35. And Husham died ; and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead ; and the name of his city was Avith.
Stran 49 - Words, Facts, and Phrases : A Dictionary of Curious, Quaint, and Out-of-the-Way Matters. By ELIEZER EDWARDS.
Stran 767 - 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 maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers...
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Stran 49 - Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Giving the Derivation, Source, or Origin of Common Phrases, Allusions, and Words that have a Tale to Tell.
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Stran 782 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
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Stran 763 - no other means of putting an end to the ambition of the Americans than that of shutting them up within the limits which Nature seems to have traced for them ; but Spain is not in a condition to do this great work alone. She cannot, therefore, hasten too quickly to engage the aid of a preponderating Power, yielding to it a small part of her immense domains in order to preserve the rest.