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name are indicated some of the bravest adventurers the world has ever seen . But it is not in its usual , common - place signification that I employ the word , nor yet in that which is given it by most writers on the subject of early ...
name are indicated some of the bravest adventurers the world has ever seen . But it is not in its usual , common - place signification that I employ the word , nor yet in that which is given it by most writers on the subject of early ...
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name are indicated some of the bravest adventurers the world has ever seen . But it is not in its usual , common - place signification that I em- ploy the word , nor yet in that which is given it by most writers on the subject of early ...
name are indicated some of the bravest adventurers the world has ever seen . But it is not in its usual , common - place signification that I em- ploy the word , nor yet in that which is given it by most writers on the subject of early ...
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... seen growing in the air , and among them stalked the deer , and elk , and buffalo ; while between them and the ground , the brazen sky was glowing with the sun of June ; when noth- ing living could be seen , save when the voyageur's ...
... seen growing in the air , and among them stalked the deer , and elk , and buffalo ; while between them and the ground , the brazen sky was glowing with the sun of June ; when noth- ing living could be seen , save when the voyageur's ...
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... seen the ponderous books and the mysterious instruments that filled the curious oaken secretaries in the master's library ; and there were not wanting some among the rude and uninformed , to whom such black - letter folios and uncanny ...
... seen the ponderous books and the mysterious instruments that filled the curious oaken secretaries in the master's library ; and there were not wanting some among the rude and uninformed , to whom such black - letter folios and uncanny ...
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... seen him squirm on stormy nights , when witches and other wild fowl are sailing about ! ' ' Oh , yes , such stories are current here . ' Capital ! I'll paint the steeple in a storm , with all due adornments . Thank you for the story ...
... seen him squirm on stormy nights , when witches and other wild fowl are sailing about ! ' ' Oh , yes , such stories are current here . ' Capital ! I'll paint the steeple in a storm , with all due adornments . Thank you for the story ...
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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.
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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.