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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... wall . Here Kreka was to be found , lying on a soft couch , and with the floor around her covered with smooth felts to walk upon . Carpets were evidently still an unwonted luxury in Hun - land . There was no trace of the Oriental ...
... wall . Here Kreka was to be found , lying on a soft couch , and with the floor around her covered with smooth felts to walk upon . Carpets were evidently still an unwonted luxury in Hun - land . There was no trace of the Oriental ...
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... walls . In the center Attila reclined on a couch , and behind him a flight of steps led up to his bed , which , hidden by curtains of white linen and varie- gated stuffs tastefully arranged , looked like the nuptial bed , as the Greeks ...
... walls . In the center Attila reclined on a couch , and behind him a flight of steps led up to his bed , which , hidden by curtains of white linen and varie- gated stuffs tastefully arranged , looked like the nuptial bed , as the Greeks ...
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... walls of your memory's chamber . The sea remembers noth- ing . It is feline . It licks your feet , its huge flanks purr very pleasantly for you ; but it will crack your bones and eat - you , for all that , and wipe the crimsoned 42 HOLMES.
... walls of your memory's chamber . The sea remembers noth- ing . It is feline . It licks your feet , its huge flanks purr very pleasantly for you ; but it will crack your bones and eat - you , for all that , and wipe the crimsoned 42 HOLMES.
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... walls and floors of cities . You heap up a million tons of hewn rocks on a square mile or two of earth which was green once . The trees look down from the hillsides and ask each other , as they stand on tiptoe , " What are these people ...
... walls and floors of cities . You heap up a million tons of hewn rocks on a square mile or two of earth which was green once . The trees look down from the hillsides and ask each other , as they stand on tiptoe , " What are these people ...
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... walls lie level with the ground . May Jove restore you when your toils are o'er Safe to the pleasures of your native shore . But , oh ! relieve a wretched parent's pain , And give Chryseïs to these arms again ; If mercy fail , yet let ...
... walls lie level with the ground . May Jove restore you when your toils are o'er Safe to the pleasures of your native shore . But , oh ! relieve a wretched parent's pain , And give Chryseïs to these arms again ; If mercy fail , yet let ...
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