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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... father - in - law's Welsh brig . Jorgen Jorgensen was then in his early manhood , and the strong heart of the man ... father's designs nor resisted them , but showed complete indifference to the weighty questions whom she should marry ...
... father - in - law's Welsh brig . Jorgen Jorgensen was then in his early manhood , and the strong heart of the man ... father's designs nor resisted them , but showed complete indifference to the weighty questions whom she should marry ...
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... father sent for her to sit with him on the Mount and to present at the end of the contest the silver - buckled belt to the champion of all Iceland . She obeyed the summons with indifference , and took her seat beside the Judge , with ...
... father sent for her to sit with him on the Mount and to present at the end of the contest the silver - buckled belt to the champion of all Iceland . She obeyed the summons with indifference , and took her seat beside the Judge , with ...
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... father and asked if the champion's belt should not be his who had overcome the cham- pion . But Jorgen answered no that the contest was over , and judgment made , and he who would take the champion's belt must come to the next Althing ...
... father and asked if the champion's belt should not be his who had overcome the cham- pion . But Jorgen answered no that the contest was over , and judgment made , and he who would take the champion's belt must come to the next Althing ...
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... . 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 vogue as an athlete , he idled his days in bed and his nights at the tavern . His father CAINE 9.
... . 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 vogue as an athlete , he idled his days in bed and his nights at the tavern . His father CAINE 9.
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... father , an honest thrall , was dead ; his mother lived by splitting and drying stock - fish for English traders ... father's curse , but before the flood of it was spent she fell backward cold and senseless , and her upturned face was ...
... father , an honest thrall , was dead ; his mother lived by splitting and drying stock - fish for English traders ... father's curse , but before the flood of it was spent she fell backward cold and senseless , and her upturned face was ...
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