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... turn desarves another . ' ' Well , if I do , ' said Onagh , ' yous won't be killen each other same as last fair - day . ' · ' Never fear , Onagh , ' said Andy , we'll be as sober as judges . ' With this assurance Onagh seemed satis ...
... turn desarves another . ' ' Well , if I do , ' said Onagh , ' yous won't be killen each other same as last fair - day . ' · ' Never fear , Onagh , ' said Andy , we'll be as sober as judges . ' With this assurance Onagh seemed satis ...
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... turn for advice and aid - whither , I repeated in my despair - but to the source of honour and justice itself , at the feet of our most noble and righteous duke ? ' Here , no longer able to control her emotions , the lovely Agatha ...
... turn for advice and aid - whither , I repeated in my despair - but to the source of honour and justice itself , at the feet of our most noble and righteous duke ? ' Here , no longer able to control her emotions , the lovely Agatha ...
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... turning away his moistened eyes . Twere dull sport , Hamilton , for a gallant like yourself to listen to a tale of poor and unhappy , although God knows , of honest and faithful love ! ' Hamilton raised his eyebrows to the utmost ...
... turning away his moistened eyes . Twere dull sport , Hamilton , for a gallant like yourself to listen to a tale of poor and unhappy , although God knows , of honest and faithful love ! ' Hamilton raised his eyebrows to the utmost ...
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... turns . ' The man drew back , with a look , in which fear pre- ponderated over contempt , and exclaimed , ' why this comes of sorcery ! -how should you know whom the Abbot Cremer expects ? ' The hospitaller , however , beckoned , and ...
... turns . ' The man drew back , with a look , in which fear pre- ponderated over contempt , and exclaimed , ' why this comes of sorcery ! -how should you know whom the Abbot Cremer expects ? ' The hospitaller , however , beckoned , and ...
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... turn at the door , and were shown up into the attic story . One of our conductors went up before us to light a candle , as he pretended . He really met us on the staircase with a candle , showing us into a room hung with black tapestry ...
... turn at the door , and were shown up into the attic story . One of our conductors went up before us to light a candle , as he pretended . He really met us on the staircase with a candle , showing us into a room hung with black tapestry ...
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Page 210 - What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness? think of it; The very place puts toys of desperation, Without more motive, into every brain That looks so many fathoms to the sea And hears it roar beneath.
Page 166 - And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears you need my help: Go to, then; you come to me, and you say 'Shylock, we would have moneys...
Page 210 - Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?
Page 244 - Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within A mother's heart. — It is but pride, wherewith To his fair son the father's eye doth turn, Watching his growth. Aye, on the boy he looks, The bright glad creature springing in his path, But as the heir of his great name, the young And stately...
Page 255 - ... think him capable of such baseness, yet he ought not for his own sake be thought to slight the information ; which would make his friends the less careful of him : that they had reason to give him warning of those meetings, which, if he had not known himself...
Page 161 - Ummeerghur, having a coarse and dirty cotton cloth. wrapped round the head and shoulders and a sort of plaited petticoat round their loins, of the same material. Two of them had rude swords and shields, the remainder had all bows and arrows resembling those which I had seen before, except that the arrow-heads, not being intended for striking fish, were fixed.
Page 161 - ... that their language differed from the dialect usually spoken in Malwah. They speak in a drawling sort of recitative, which Dr. Smith imitated, and found them catch his meaning much better than they otherwise could. The old man said that they had suffered much from want of rain, that their crops had been very scanty, that there was little pasture left for their cattle, and what was worst of all, they expected the pools of the neighbouring nullah to dry up before the end of the hot weather. When...
Page 292 - look,' said he, ' look, this is the sixth she has brought me ! What a line hearty child he is ! May God preserve him as he has done my others !' The Czar, sensibly affected at this scene, took the infant in his arms :
Page 291 - ... the cradle, while her two sisters, the one five years old, the other seven, were on their knees, crying, and praying to God for their mother, who was in a room adjoining, and whose piteous plaints and groans were distinctly heard. ' Stay here,' said the peasant to the Emperor, ' I will go and fetch something for your supper.' He went out, and soon returned with some black bread, eggs, and honey. ' You see all I can give you,' said the peasant, ' partake of it with my children ; I must go and...
Page 164 - ... bamboos. The officer followed at the head of his men, and had moved slowly half asleep on his saddle for about five miles, when he heard a hideous roar, and saw a very large tiger spring past him so close that he almost brushed his horse. The poor Bheel...