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... appeared immoveable . These camels and goats , with their heads inclined towards the burning and barren sand , were nour- ished by dried roots , which here and there appeared on the sur- face of the sands . - As for ourselves ...
... appeared immoveable . These camels and goats , with their heads inclined towards the burning and barren sand , were nour- ished by dried roots , which here and there appeared on the sur- face of the sands . - As for ourselves ...
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... appearance of a camp . The appearance of these men , excited our curiosity : their exterior was noble and imposing , which was increased by the white and loose drapery of the hayk . This people were distinguished by regular features ...
... appearance of a camp . The appearance of these men , excited our curiosity : their exterior was noble and imposing , which was increased by the white and loose drapery of the hayk . This people were distinguished by regular features ...
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... appeared on the horizon before us . We could not be much more than two miles from it . Our strength returned to us , at the sight of this reanimating object . The assurance of an adequate help , so near at hand , was almost equal to the ...
... appeared on the horizon before us . We could not be much more than two miles from it . Our strength returned to us , at the sight of this reanimating object . The assurance of an adequate help , so near at hand , was almost equal to the ...
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... appeared to doubt our promises , but finally he acceded to our proposition . A distance of 70 leagues only separated us from Mogador , but the communication was difficult . We were totally ignorant of the intercourse between that port ...
... appeared to doubt our promises , but finally he acceded to our proposition . A distance of 70 leagues only separated us from Mogador , but the communication was difficult . We were totally ignorant of the intercourse between that port ...
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... appeared like a dream , and is thus described : " The most perfect silence surrounded us . The sound of some bubbling brooks and the vibratory motion of the leaves gently agitated by a zephyr , alone interrupted the silence of a fine ...
... appeared like a dream , and is thus described : " The most perfect silence surrounded us . The sound of some bubbling brooks and the vibratory motion of the leaves gently agitated by a zephyr , alone interrupted the silence of a fine ...
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Page 172 - Cold on His cradle the dew-drops are shining ; Low lies His head with the beasts of the stall : Angels adore Him in slumber reclining, Maker, and Monarch, and Saviour of all.
Page 171 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning ! Dawn on our darkness, and lend us Thine aid ! Star of the east, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid...
Page 166 - For thither the tribes go up, even the tribes of the LORD : to testify unto Israel, to give thanks unto the Name of the LORD.
Page 195 - And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence ; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them...
Page 379 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
Page 45 - Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Page 96 - an admiral without conduct, an engineer without knowledge, an officer without resolution, and a man without veracity!
Page 215 - ONCE in the flight of ages past, There lived a man : — and who was he ? Mortal ! howe'er thy lot be cast, That man resembled thee.
Page 193 - Certainly the Americans owed and still owe as much acknowledgment to the financial operations of Robert Morris as to the negotiations of Benjamin Franklin or even the arms of George Washington.
Page 402 - I have seen him — nay, smile not — tenderly escorting a market-woman, whom he had encountered in a shower, exalting his umbrella over her poor basket of fruit, that it might receive no damage, with as much carefulness as if she had been a countess.