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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... shirt was thrown back by reason of the heat . He was a magnificent creature - young , stalwart , fair - haired , broad - chested , with limbs like the beech tree , and muscles like its great , gnarled round heads . His coat , CAINE 5.
... shirt was thrown back by reason of the heat . He was a magnificent creature - young , stalwart , fair - haired , broad - chested , with limbs like the beech tree , and muscles like its great , gnarled round heads . His coat , CAINE 5.
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... reason enough why the thing in hand should be despatched . The marriage must be delayed no longer . But then the Count betrayed reluctance . Rumor had pes- tered him with reports that vexed his pride . He dropped hints of them to the ...
... reason enough why the thing in hand should be despatched . The marriage must be delayed no longer . But then the Count betrayed reluctance . Rumor had pes- tered him with reports that vexed his pride . He dropped hints of them to the ...
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... reason to remember the ceremony . Within a week he was removed from his chaplaincy at the capital to the parsonage of Grimsey , the smallest cure of the Icelandic Church , on an island separated from the mainland by seven Danish miles ...
... reason to remember the ceremony . Within a week he was removed from his chaplaincy at the capital to the parsonage of Grimsey , the smallest cure of the Icelandic Church , on an island separated from the mainland by seven Danish miles ...
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... reason " what " the un- derstanding " had been obliged to fling out as incredible ; and could still , after Hume and Voltaire had done their best and worst with him , profess himself an orthodox Christian , and say and print to the ...
... reason " what " the un- derstanding " had been obliged to fling out as incredible ; and could still , after Hume and Voltaire had done their best and worst with him , profess himself an orthodox Christian , and say and print to the ...
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... reason by the name of " excellent talk , " but only of " surprising " ; and were reminded bitterly of Hazlitt's account of it : " Excellent talker , very , if you let him start from no premises and come to no conclusion . " Coleridge ...
... reason by the name of " excellent talk , " but only of " surprising " ; and were reminded bitterly of Hazlitt's account of it : " Excellent talker , very , if you let him start from no premises and come to no conclusion . " Coleridge ...
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