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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... eyes wandered from the spectacle to the spectators . From that instant her indifference fell away . By the outskirts of the crowd , on one of the lower mounds of the Mount of Laws , a man sat with his head in his hand and his elbow on ...
... eyes wandered from the spectacle to the spectators . From that instant her indifference fell away . By the outskirts of the crowd , on one of the lower mounds of the Mount of Laws , a man sat with his head in his hand and his elbow on ...
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... eyes - gray as those of a seal , and as calm and lusterless . The wrestling came to an end . Patriksen justified his Irish blood , and was proclaimed the winner , and stepped up to the foot of the Mount , that the daughter of the ...
... eyes - gray as those of a seal , and as calm and lusterless . The wrestling came to an end . Patriksen justified his Irish blood , and was proclaimed the winner , and stepped up to the foot of the Mount , that the daughter of the ...
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... his hand and his sullen eyes on the ground . " Keep it , " he said , and flung the belt at the girl's feet , between her and his adversary . Then he strode away through the throng , with curses on his white lips and the veins of CAINE 7.
... his hand and his sullen eyes on the ground . " Keep it , " he said , and flung the belt at the girl's feet , between her and his adversary . Then he strode away through the throng , with curses on his white lips and the veins of CAINE 7.
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... eyes were glazed , and stared up without the quivering of a lid through the rosy sunlight ; the dark veins on his brow were now purple , and when they lifted him they saw that his back was broken . Then there was a gathering at the foot ...
... eyes were glazed , and stared up without the quivering of a lid through the rosy sunlight ; the dark veins on his brow were now purple , and when they lifted him they saw that his back was broken . Then there was a gathering at the foot ...
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... eyes to the child of Jorgen Jorgensen ? The Count had his answer pat . He had made inquiries . The man's name was Stephen Orry . He came from Stappen under Snaefell , and was known there for a wastrel . On the poor glory of his village ...
... eyes to the child of Jorgen Jorgensen ? The Count had his answer pat . He had made inquiries . The man's name was Stephen Orry . He came from Stappen under Snaefell , and was known there for a wastrel . On the poor glory of his village ...
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