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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... almost certainly , have been dead before that time - in which case both life and eleven thousand a - year would have been lost to him for the VOL . XVIII . C sake of one month more of patient waiting . What In the Dead of Night . 17.
... almost certainly , have been dead before that time - in which case both life and eleven thousand a - year would have been lost to him for the VOL . XVIII . C sake of one month more of patient waiting . What In the Dead of Night . 17.
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... waiting . What a surprise it would have been if in " that other place " his shade had suddenly encoun- tered the shade of Lionel Dering ! He dismissed the thought with an impatient shrug , but he could not help shivering , and for a ...
... waiting . What a surprise it would have been if in " that other place " his shade had suddenly encoun- tered the shade of Lionel Dering ! He dismissed the thought with an impatient shrug , but he could not help shivering , and for a ...
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... waiting for them at the top of the stone staircase which led to the church above . General St. George went up the stairs first , slowly and painfully : Kester followed a step or two behind . As his foot rested on the lowest stair of the ...
... waiting for them at the top of the stone staircase which led to the church above . General St. George went up the stairs first , slowly and painfully : Kester followed a step or two behind . As his foot rested on the lowest stair of the ...
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... waiting at sundry doors , with the patience of Job , a rumbling and rattling were heard inside , like the noise of an awakened ghost ; bars and bolts were hastily withdrawn , and a maiden , apparently roused by our summons from a twelve ...
... waiting at sundry doors , with the patience of Job , a rumbling and rattling were heard inside , like the noise of an awakened ghost ; bars and bolts were hastily withdrawn , and a maiden , apparently roused by our summons from a twelve ...
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... waiting for the tea , we sat on the banks outside , and certainly the island was a picturesque object . One of the chief sights is the " Piper's Hole , " a cavern of granite , which may be penetrated , with the But the hour ; and so ...
... waiting for the tea , we sat on the banks outside , and certainly the island was a picturesque object . One of the chief sights is the " Piper's Hole , " a cavern of granite , which may be penetrated , with the But the hour ; and so ...
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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.