The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 9G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... coming home to a late dinner and a jovial carouse , where the events of the day are discussed and parallel anecdotes brought out , was so distinctive as to produce a marked effect on the social habits of succeeding generations . The ...
... coming home to a late dinner and a jovial carouse , where the events of the day are discussed and parallel anecdotes brought out , was so distinctive as to produce a marked effect on the social habits of succeeding generations . The ...
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... coming home ; for it befell after , that he went into Norway , and the tempest of the sea carried him to an isle ; and when he was in that isle , he knew well that it was the isle where he had heard his own language spoken before , and ...
... coming home ; for it befell after , that he went into Norway , and the tempest of the sea carried him to an isle ; and when he was in that isle , he knew well that it was the isle where he had heard his own language spoken before , and ...
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... Coming directly , " replied he , as he drew in his head and shut the window ; and although half asleep and more than half terrified , an expedient quickly occurred to him that would bring more aid than had been asked , without drag ...
... Coming directly , " replied he , as he drew in his head and shut the window ; and although half asleep and more than half terrified , an expedient quickly occurred to him that would bring more aid than had been asked , without drag ...
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... coming towards the town , for it was market - day . The men walked at an easy gait , the whole body thrown for- ward with every movement of their long crooked legs , misshapen by hard work , by the bearing down on the 54 MAUPASSANT GUY ...
... coming towards the town , for it was market - day . The men walked at an easy gait , the whole body thrown for- ward with every movement of their long crooked legs , misshapen by hard work , by the bearing down on the 54 MAUPASSANT GUY ...
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... coming . Why ? He accosted a farmer from Criquetot , who did not let him finish , but poked him in the pit of his stomach , and shouted in his face : " Go on , you old fox ! " Then he turned on his heel . Master Hauchecorne was ...
... coming . Why ? He accosted a farmer from Criquetot , who did not let him finish , but poked him in the pit of his stomach , and shouted in his face : " Go on , you old fox ! " Then he turned on his heel . Master Hauchecorne was ...
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