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... sort of rampart with a mattress on the top of a large basket , such as is used . in the country for carrying peat . They knelt behind this rampart , and fired as fast as they could one after the other , without daring to show their ...
... sort of rampart with a mattress on the top of a large basket , such as is used . in the country for carrying peat . They knelt behind this rampart , and fired as fast as they could one after the other , without daring to show their ...
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... sort of brig . of the sailors , came aft with Alexander Mitchel and others , and said to Morrice Cunden ( gunner of the ship ) , then at the helm . " You , dog , if you stir hand or foot , or speak a word , I'll blow your brains out ...
... sort of brig . of the sailors , came aft with Alexander Mitchel and others , and said to Morrice Cunden ( gunner of the ship ) , then at the helm . " You , dog , if you stir hand or foot , or speak a word , I'll blow your brains out ...
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... sort at Jamaica . These have two lights upon their eyes and a third in their tails ; on dark nights they shine like candles , so that I have often , at a distance , mistaken their sparkle for the lights of some distant plantation ...
... sort at Jamaica . These have two lights upon their eyes and a third in their tails ; on dark nights they shine like candles , so that I have often , at a distance , mistaken their sparkle for the lights of some distant plantation ...
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... sort had pendants of copper hanging in either ear , and some of the children of the King's brother and other noblemen , had five or six in either ear . He himself had upon his head a broad plate of gold or copper , for being unpolished ...
... sort had pendants of copper hanging in either ear , and some of the children of the King's brother and other noblemen , had five or six in either ear . He himself had upon his head a broad plate of gold or copper , for being unpolished ...
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... sort of These can hardly be sounded without great strain- flute . ing of the breath . Upon these instruments they keep a certain rude time . But their chief instru- ments are rattles , made of small gourds or of shells . These mingled ...
... sort of These can hardly be sounded without great strain- flute . ing of the breath . Upon these instruments they keep a certain rude time . But their chief instru- ments are rattles , made of small gourds or of shells . These mingled ...
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Page 49 - Make no friendship with an angry man ; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
Page 212 - Collections; they were small chapmen's books, and cheap, 40 or 50 in all. My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way, since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.
Page 198 - When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly employing himself in political bustles, neglecting his own affairs, and ruining them by that neglect ; He pays indeed, says I, too much for his whistle.
Page 197 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
Page 211 - ... near the marsh, and which would very well suit our purpose. Accordingly, in the evening, when the workmen were gone, I assembled a number of my playfellows, and working with them diligently like so many emmets, sometimes two or three to a stone, we brought them all away and built our little wharf.
Page 198 - If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellowcitizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship for the sake of accumulating wealth, Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
Page 133 - Being thus passed the vast ocean, and a sea of troubles before in their preparation (as may be remembered by that which went before), they had now no friends to welcome them, nor inns to entertain or refresh their weather-beaten bodies, no houses or much less towns to repair to, to seek for succor.
Page 215 - I ought to punish the boy, and make him do better. So, after school was done, I went up to him and told him I had been beaten several times for his failures. I told him that since the master would not punish him I would, and I should do so as often as I was punished for him. Then I drubbed him well. The boy never came to school any more. And so that unfortunate matter ended. Though I was often beaten for my play, and my little roguish tricks, yet I don't remember that I was ever beaten for my lessons...
Page 31 - ... the sea. Then from the side of the ship which was from the town arose a great smoke, which covered all the ship, and in that smoke she vanished away ; but some saw her keel sink into the water. This was seen by many, men and women, and it continued about a quarter of an hour.
Page 197 - I might have bought with the rest of the money, and laughed at me so much for my folly that I cried with vexation; and the reflection gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure.