The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 3G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... called for drink that he might treat the losing men ; and having drunk himself , he began to swagger afresh , saying that they might find him the strongest and lustiest man that day at Thingvellir , and he would bargain to throw him ...
... called for drink that he might treat the losing men ; and having drunk himself , he began to swagger afresh , saying that they might find him the strongest and lustiest man that day at Thingvellir , and he would bargain to throw him ...
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... called to her , saying what lovely hair she had , and asking would she part with it . There was no going back on her purpose then , so facing it out as bravely as she could , she removed her head - dress , dropped her hair out of the ...
... called to her , saying what lovely hair she had , and asking would she part with it . There was no going back on her purpose then , so facing it out as bravely as she could , she removed her head - dress , dropped her hair out of the ...
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... called on Stephen to hearken to her , for that was the wife he had brought home to revile his mother . The old witch shed some crocodile tears , and Stephen lunged in between the women and with the back of his hand struck his wife ...
... called on Stephen to hearken to her , for that was the wife he had brought home to revile his mother . The old witch shed some crocodile tears , and Stephen lunged in between the women and with the back of his hand struck his wife ...
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... called reflecting , on man's life , and happily discovered , in contradiction to much Profit - and - Loss Philoso- phy , speculative and practical , that Soul is not synonymous with Stomach ; who understand , therefore , in our Friend's ...
... called reflecting , on man's life , and happily discovered , in contradiction to much Profit - and - Loss Philoso- phy , speculative and practical , that Soul is not synonymous with Stomach ; who understand , therefore , in our Friend's ...
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... called Friends , in whose withered , vain , and too - hungry souls Friend- ship was but an incredible tradition ? In such cases , your re- source is to talk little , and that little mostly from the News- papers . Now when I look back ...
... called Friends , in whose withered , vain , and too - hungry souls Friend- ship was but an incredible tradition ? In such cases , your re- source is to talk little , and that little mostly from the News- papers . Now when I look back ...
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