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... curiously satisfied . I that was dead lived again . It came to me then with a curious certainty , not since so assuring , that I understood the chief marvel of nature hidden within the Story of the Resurrection , the marvel of plant and ...
... curiously satisfied . I that was dead lived again . It came to me then with a curious certainty , not since so assuring , that I understood the chief marvel of nature hidden within the Story of the Resurrection , the marvel of plant and ...
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... curious pastures . From my farm I can see most of the world ; and if I wait here long enough all people pass this way . And I look out upon them not in the surroundings which they have chosen for themselves , but from the vantage ground ...
... curious pastures . From my farm I can see most of the world ; and if I wait here long enough all people pass this way . And I look out upon them not in the surroundings which they have chosen for themselves , but from the vantage ground ...
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... curiously unconvincing , like a game in which the important part is to keep from laughing ; and yet when I thought of laughing I felt cold chills of horror . If I had laughed at that moment I cannot think what that justice would have ...
... curiously unconvincing , like a game in which the important part is to keep from laughing ; and yet when I thought of laughing I felt cold chills of horror . If I had laughed at that moment I cannot think what that justice would have ...
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... curious satisfaction , as when a coin , tested , rings true gold , or a hero , tried , is heroic . " I have rarely , " he said , " seen a finer display of rudbeckia than this , along these old fences . " If he had referred to me , or ...
... curious satisfaction , as when a coin , tested , rings true gold , or a hero , tried , is heroic . " I have rarely , " he said , " seen a finer display of rudbeckia than this , along these old fences . " If he had referred to me , or ...
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... curious to me , having hitherto barely observed the cone- flowers along my fences , save as a colour of beauty , how simple we fell to talking of them as though in truth they were people like ourselves , having our desires and possessed ...
... curious to me , having hitherto barely observed the cone- flowers along my fences , save as a colour of beauty , how simple we fell to talking of them as though in truth they were people like ourselves , having our desires and possessed ...
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