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... Leave all linen behind you , ye who enter here , or at least protect it at every exposed point . Cover your hands in gauntlets of India - rubber , if you would not utter Lady Macbeth's soliloque over them when they come to the light of ...
... Leave all linen behind you , ye who enter here , or at least protect it at every exposed point . Cover your hands in gauntlets of India - rubber , if you would not utter Lady Macbeth's soliloque over them when they come to the light of ...
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... leave the babes in the wood to be despatched by their ruffian relatives , and go to another hotel . A larger parlor , larger rows , but still three deep and solemn . A tall man , with a face in which melancholy seems to be giving way to ...
... leave the babes in the wood to be despatched by their ruffian relatives , and go to another hotel . A larger parlor , larger rows , but still three deep and solemn . A tall man , with a face in which melancholy seems to be giving way to ...
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... leave a pal- lid ghost behind them , or , if it some- times stalks abroad , few recognize it . -- We went into several other rooms , at the doors of which , pausing on the out- side , we could hear the volubility , and sometimes the ...
... leave a pal- lid ghost behind them , or , if it some- times stalks abroad , few recognize it . -- We went into several other rooms , at the doors of which , pausing on the out- side , we could hear the volubility , and sometimes the ...
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... leave me , Grey ? " She drew back , sitting down on a camp- She heard a man's step on the clay path outside . Only the sentry's . Paul's was heavier , more nervous . Pen came to her to button his coat . " To - day are we going home ...
... leave me , Grey ? " She drew back , sitting down on a camp- She heard a man's step on the clay path outside . Only the sentry's . Paul's was heavier , more nervous . Pen came to her to button his coat . " To - day are we going home ...
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... leave her sooner than drag her into crime . ' You shall do what you think right . I will be silent . " " Good bye , then , Paul . " Yet he did not take the offered hand : stood moodily looking down into the wa- ter , crushing back ...
... leave her sooner than drag her into crime . ' You shall do what you think right . I will be silent . " " Good bye , then , Paul . " Yet he did not take the offered hand : stood moodily looking down into the wa- ter , crushing back ...
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Page 493 - It shivered the window, pane and sash; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf. She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. ' Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,
Page 55 - For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
Page 493 - Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word; "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on!
Page 128 - But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
Page 656 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 666 - But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Page 609 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides, Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe, And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And, if I give thee honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Page 508 - America, agree to certain articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. ... ARTICLE 1. The style of this confederacy shall be "The United States of America.
Page 628 - Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet— Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven: The roof was fretted gold.
Page 118 - We think it does not. If reference be had to its use, in the common affairs of the world, or in approved authors, we find that it frequently imports no more than that one thing is convenient, or useful, or essential to another. To...