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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... speak good Greek in his serious moments , when on his good behavior , it was known that his relaxations were of a very different kind . Then he showed the Thracian - then his Macedonian breeding came out . Nevertheless he saw so clearly ...
... speak good Greek in his serious moments , when on his good behavior , it was known that his relaxations were of a very different kind . Then he showed the Thracian - then his Macedonian breeding came out . Nevertheless he saw so clearly ...
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... speak ye fair to her that she will give you that sword . Anon withal came the damosel unto Arthur , and saluted him , and he her again . Damosel , said Arthur , what sword is that , that yonder the arm holdeth above the water ? I would ...
... speak ye fair to her that she will give you that sword . Anon withal came the damosel unto Arthur , and saluted him , and he her again . Damosel , said Arthur , what sword is that , that yonder the arm holdeth above the water ? I would ...
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... speak one word a great while , and so they looked every man on other as they had been dumb . Then there entered into the hall the Holy Greal covered with white samite , but there was none might see it , nor who bare it . And there was ...
... speak one word a great while , and so they looked every man on other as they had been dumb . Then there entered into the hall the Holy Greal covered with white samite , but there was none might see it , nor who bare it . And there was ...
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... isles ; and so long he went by sea and land , and so environed the world by many seasons , that he found an isle where he heard people speak his own language , calling on oxen in the plow such words as men MANDEVILLE 29.
... isles ; and so long he went by sea and land , and so environed the world by many seasons , that he found an isle where he heard people speak his own language , calling on oxen in the plow such words as men MANDEVILLE 29.
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... speak to beasts in his own country , whereof he had great wonder , for he knew not how it might be . But I say that he had gone so long , by land and sea , that he had gone all round the earth , that he was come again to his own borders ...
... speak to beasts in his own country , whereof he had great wonder , for he knew not how it might be . But I say that he had gone so long , by land and sea , that he had gone all round the earth , that he was come again to his own borders ...
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