The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 7G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... asked her husband , ' Where has the flesh gone ? ' He immediately prevaricated , and said , ' Do you know , just after you left , the lizard came to life again , got out of the pot and ran away ? ' But his wife would not believe that ...
... asked her husband , ' Where has the flesh gone ? ' He immediately prevaricated , and said , ' Do you know , just after you left , the lizard came to life again , got out of the pot and ran away ? ' But his wife would not believe that ...
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... asked him a second time , and notwithstanding a similar reply , she pressed him a third time to tell her the reason of his grief . Even then he refused to tell her ; but when a fourth time she said , " Dear father , you ought to let me ...
... asked him a second time , and notwithstanding a similar reply , she pressed him a third time to tell her the reason of his grief . Even then he refused to tell her ; but when a fourth time she said , " Dear father , you ought to let me ...
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... asked us what on earth we wanted that we were making such an uproar . The barbarians who were with us explained how we had been thrown into confusion by the storm , whereupon they kindly called us into their houses , and by lighting a ...
... asked us what on earth we wanted that we were making such an uproar . The barbarians who were with us explained how we had been thrown into confusion by the storm , whereupon they kindly called us into their houses , and by lighting a ...
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... asked him who he was , and from what part of the world he had come into that barba- rian land to adopt the Scythian life . " What has put it into your head to ask me such a question as that ? " said he . " Your Greek accent , " answered ...
... asked him who he was , and from what part of the world he had come into that barba- rian land to adopt the Scythian life . " What has put it into your head to ask me such a question as that ? " said he . " Your Greek accent , " answered ...
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... asked me for it yet a second time : " Give it me again of thy grace , and tell me thy name straight- way , that I may give thee a stranger's gift , wherein thou mayest be glad . Yea , for the earth , the grain - giver , bears for the Cy ...
... asked me for it yet a second time : " Give it me again of thy grace , and tell me thy name straight- way , that I may give thee a stranger's gift , wherein thou mayest be glad . Yea , for the earth , the grain - giver , bears for the Cy ...
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