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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... spirit could brook no more . " Rather than darken my father's doors again , " she said , " I will starve on a crust of bread and a drop of water . " Things did not mend , and Stephen began to cast down his eyes in shame when Rachel ...
... spirit could brook no more . " Rather than darken my father's doors again , " she said , " I will starve on a crust of bread and a drop of water . " Things did not mend , and Stephen began to cast down his eyes in shame when Rachel ...
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... spirit sank . The old woman was active and restless . Two days after her arrival she was at work at her old trade of splitting and drying stock - fish . All the difference that the change had made for her was that she was working on the ...
... spirit sank . The old woman was active and restless . Two days after her arrival she was at work at her old trade of splitting and drying stock - fish . All the difference that the change had made for her was that she was working on the ...
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... spirit was broken . So she sat herself down with her feet to the hearth , and wept . There the old mother saw her as often as she bustled in and out of the house from the beach , and many a gibe she flung her way . But Stephen sat ...
... spirit was broken . So she sat herself down with her feet to the hearth , and wept . There the old mother saw her as often as she bustled in and out of the house from the beach , and many a gibe she flung her way . But Stephen sat ...
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... spirit to tell ! Life flutters convulsed in his quivering limbs , And his blood - streaming nostril in agony swims . Accursed be the fagots , that blaze at his feet , Where his heart shall be thrown , ere it ceases to beat , With the ...
... spirit to tell ! Life flutters convulsed in his quivering limbs , And his blood - streaming nostril in agony swims . Accursed be the fagots , that blaze at his feet , Where his heart shall be thrown , ere it ceases to beat , With the ...
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... spirit of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! For the deck it was their field of fame , And Ocean was their grave : Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell , Your manly hearts shall glow , As ye sweep through the deep , While the ...
... spirit of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! For the deck it was their field of fame , And Ocean was their grave : Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell , Your manly hearts shall glow , As ye sweep through the deep , While the ...
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