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Page 12
Yet while they marched in the same ranks , and spurred their horses at the same trumpet - sound , the memory of the former are dear to us as patriots or loyalists that of those who acted on mean or unworthy promptings , is either ...
Yet while they marched in the same ranks , and spurred their horses at the same trumpet - sound , the memory of the former are dear to us as patriots or loyalists that of those who acted on mean or unworthy promptings , is either ...
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“ They that are drenched with poisonous narcotics , " said the Major , “ must be awakened by their physicians , though it were with the sound of the trumpet ...
“ They that are drenched with poisonous narcotics , " said the Major , “ must be awakened by their physicians , though it were with the sound of the trumpet ...
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But , thank Heaven , there sounds the dinner - bell . I would the philosophers , who find a sin and waste of time in good cheer , could devise us any pastime half so agreeable . ' The meal which the young Earl'had thus longed for ...
But , thank Heaven , there sounds the dinner - bell . I would the philosophers , who find a sin and waste of time in good cheer , could devise us any pastime half so agreeable . ' The meal which the young Earl'had thus longed for ...
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The words had scarce escaped his lips when he heard at the door of his apartment , which the servant had left ajar , a sound like a deep sigh , which was instantly succeeded by a gentle tap Come in , ” replied Julian , somewhat ashamed ...
The words had scarce escaped his lips when he heard at the door of his apartment , which the servant had left ajar , a sound like a deep sigh , which was instantly succeeded by a gentle tap Come in , ” replied Julian , somewhat ashamed ...
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Alternately to recline in the old oaken easy - chair , and listen to the dashing of the waves under the windows , mingled , as the sound was , with the scream of the sea - birds ; or to traverse the apartment with long and slow steps ...
Alternately to recline in the old oaken easy - chair , and listen to the dashing of the waves under the windows , mingled , as the sound was , with the scream of the sea - birds ; or to traverse the apartment with long and slow steps ...
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Page 194 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
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| Title | Peveril of the Peak, Volume 2 Peveril of the Peak, Walter Scott |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Publisher | James Crissy, 1826 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Jan 25, 2007 |
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