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... scene of daily intercourse , as if the discomfiture of some powerful enchanter had suddenly released the multifarious victims of magic influence , who , resuming their peculiar forms , presented an assembly at once the most singular and ...
... scene of daily intercourse , as if the discomfiture of some powerful enchanter had suddenly released the multifarious victims of magic influence , who , resuming their peculiar forms , presented an assembly at once the most singular and ...
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... scene . To the left one could see far up the charming Nuuana Valley , fringed with its ruddy flush of tropical flowers and its plumed and graceful cocoa palms ; its rising foot - hills clothed in the shining green of lemon , citron ...
... scene . To the left one could see far up the charming Nuuana Valley , fringed with its ruddy flush of tropical flowers and its plumed and graceful cocoa palms ; its rising foot - hills clothed in the shining green of lemon , citron ...
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... scenes , cabinets and porce- lain ware , as the country of almond - eyed women , dwarfed trees and quaint bridges , known to our own generation through the tales of a few travellers as a piece of the old world existing in the midst of ...
... scenes , cabinets and porce- lain ware , as the country of almond - eyed women , dwarfed trees and quaint bridges , known to our own generation through the tales of a few travellers as a piece of the old world existing in the midst of ...
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... scene , and when presently two fat square - faced children , in long jackets and baggy breeches , came running out of the house , their merry faces and shrill outcries of joy seemed quite in keeping with the rest . 6 ' Mother , mother ...
... scene , and when presently two fat square - faced children , in long jackets and baggy breeches , came running out of the house , their merry faces and shrill outcries of joy seemed quite in keeping with the rest . 6 ' Mother , mother ...
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... scene of ripe sunshine the hedges betwixt , With here and there farm - houses , tree - intermixed , And an air in your face , ever fanning and sweet , And the birds in your ears , and a turf for your feet ; - And then , after all , to ...
... scene of ripe sunshine the hedges betwixt , With here and there farm - houses , tree - intermixed , And an air in your face , ever fanning and sweet , And the birds in your ears , and a turf for your feet ; - And then , after all , to ...
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