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... head rested a wig of a faded brown , in fine contrast with the gray eyebrows that bristled above his small , restless eyes . The lean and sanctimonious looks of our landlord would certainly seem to indicate to a traveler , that he would ...
... head rested a wig of a faded brown , in fine contrast with the gray eyebrows that bristled above his small , restless eyes . The lean and sanctimonious looks of our landlord would certainly seem to indicate to a traveler , that he would ...
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... head was surmounted by an indescribable mass of folded , yellow batiste , which she probably called a turban . Her face had nothing remarkable , except a discoloration of the upper lip ; and her voice , never very musical , per- haps ...
... head was surmounted by an indescribable mass of folded , yellow batiste , which she probably called a turban . Her face had nothing remarkable , except a discoloration of the upper lip ; and her voice , never very musical , per- haps ...
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... head , jest like the bow to my old c'lash , she looks like her too , only older , and more sort o ' stiddy - like . All on ' em look like her . Well , I have my ' spicions . do ' nt need no medicine : you'll tough it out , I dare say ...
... head , jest like the bow to my old c'lash , she looks like her too , only older , and more sort o ' stiddy - like . All on ' em look like her . Well , I have my ' spicions . do ' nt need no medicine : you'll tough it out , I dare say ...
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... head aches , and feels very , very warm . What can be the matter ? ' ' You are feverish , love , and require rest . ' So Mrs. May gave her child some herb - tea , and placed her in her little bed . In the night , the mother was awakened ...
... head aches , and feels very , very warm . What can be the matter ? ' ' You are feverish , love , and require rest . ' So Mrs. May gave her child some herb - tea , and placed her in her little bed . In the night , the mother was awakened ...
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... head until her lips touched those of her child , and she felt them move a little to kiss her ; then she tried to speak , but could not ; and the mother stood by the side of the bed with glazed eyes , in which were no tears , for she ...
... head until her lips touched those of her child , and she felt them move a little to kiss her ; then she tried to speak , but could not ; and the mother stood by the side of the bed with glazed eyes , in which were no tears , for she ...
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Page 213 - I REQUIRE and charge you both, as ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in Matrimony, ye do now confess it.
Page 58 - Thus saith the Lord: I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
Page 245 - God: 8 who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. 9 He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Page 30 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 269 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, — A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, — I do not know Why yet I live to say "This thing's to do," Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means To do't.
Page 181 - The Western wind was wild and dank with foam, And all alone went she. The creeping tide came up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand, And round and round the sand, As far as eye could see; The blinding mist came down and hid the land; And never home came she.
Page 318 - Have with our needles created both one flower. Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem : So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart, Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.