The Argosy, Volume 18Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood Strahan & Company, 1874 - Adventure stories, English A magazine of tales, travels, essays, and poems. |
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... Present , and Future . By Emma Rhodes Sailor's Wooing , A. By Anne Beale Scilly Islands , At the . With Four Illustrations . Sensation Novel , The Slumber Song • Sonnet . By Emma Rhodes . Stephanie Summer's History , A Three Glimpses at ...
... Present , and Future . By Emma Rhodes Sailor's Wooing , A. By Anne Beale Scilly Islands , At the . With Four Illustrations . Sensation Novel , The Slumber Song • Sonnet . By Emma Rhodes . Stephanie Summer's History , A Three Glimpses at ...
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... present , Dering's life is one of perpetual dread and uncertainty . He never feels sure from day to day that before nightfall his hiding - place may not be discovered , or his disguise penetrated , and he himself taken into custody as ...
... present , Dering's life is one of perpetual dread and uncertainty . He never feels sure from day to day that before nightfall his hiding - place may not be discovered , or his disguise penetrated , and he himself taken into custody as ...
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... present , may , perhaps , be got over by a little ingenuity . I am going to put before you a certain scheme which may , or may not , meet with your approbation . Should you not approve of it , it will have to be at once abandoned , as ...
... present , may , perhaps , be got over by a little ingenuity . I am going to put before you a certain scheme which may , or may not , meet with your approbation . Should you not approve of it , it will have to be at once abandoned , as ...
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... present I am too nervous and out of sorts for company of any kind . " This was said with more kindness of tone than the General had yet used in speaking to his nephew , but at the same time it was a plain intimation that their interview ...
... present I am too nervous and out of sorts for company of any kind . " This was said with more kindness of tone than the General had yet used in speaking to his nephew , but at the same time it was a plain intimation that their interview ...
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... man to set much store by such an engagement . He felt , instinctively as it were , that Jane had drifted into her present position almost unconsciously and without being sure In the Dead of Night . 9 Cupid at Pincote 10358.
... man to set much store by such an engagement . He felt , instinctively as it were , that Jane had drifted into her present position almost unconsciously and without being sure In the Dead of Night . 9 Cupid at Pincote 10358.
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Page 140 - I waked one morning, in the beginning of last June, from a dream, of which, all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate.
Page 138 - Richmond, took to the road, became captain of a formidable gang, and had the honour to be named first in a royal proclamation against notorious offenders ; how at the head of his troop he stopped a lady's coach, in which there was a booty of four hundred pounds ; how he took only one hundred, and suffered the fair owner to ransom the rest by dancing a coranto with him on the heath...
Page 212 - For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 140 - In the evening I sat down, and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it— add, that I was very glad to think of anything, rather than politics.
Page 62 - And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships...
Page 138 - It was related how Claude Duval, the French page of the Duke of Richmond, took to the road, became captain of a formidable gang, and had the honor to be named first in a royal proclamation against notorious offenders; how at the...
Page 349 - THE Lord is my light and my salvation, whom then shall I fear ? the Lord is the strength of my life, of whom then shall I be afraid?
Page 140 - I completed in less than two months, that one evening, I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph.
Page 76 - But I have no rest : I am in hourly fear of it." "fear/" uttered Gerard, in astonishment. Alice winced, and leaned her head upon her hand : she spoke in a low tone. " You must understand what I mean, Mr. Hope. The affair has been productive of so much pain and annoyance to me, that I wish it could be ignored for ever.
Page 349 - Washington is a great factor, for "the path of the just is as a shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.