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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... 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.
... 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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... young man sat unmoved . Then those who had followed at the islander's heels for the liquor he was spending first stared in wonderment at his failure , and next laughed in derision of his bragging , and shouted to know why , before it ...
... young man sat unmoved . Then those who had followed at the islander's heels for the liquor he was spending first stared in wonderment at his failure , and next laughed in derision of his bragging , and shouted to know why , before it ...
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... young fellow rose , and then it was seen that his right arm was useless , being broken between the elbow and the wrist , and bound with a kerchief above the wound . Nothing loath for this infirmity , he threw his other arm about the ...
... young fellow rose , and then it was seen that his right arm was useless , being broken between the elbow and the wrist , and bound with a kerchief above the wound . Nothing loath for this infirmity , he threw his other arm about the ...
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... young maidens who would sell to him , and of the great money he had paid to some of them , such as they had never handled before . And now at this mention of the boat , and at the flash of hope that came with it , Rachel remembered that ...
... young maidens who would sell to him , and of the great money he had paid to some of them , such as they had never handled before . And now at this mention of the boat , and at the flash of hope that came with it , Rachel remembered that ...
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... young ; I heard my own mountain goats bleating aloft , And knew the sweet strain that the corn - reapers sung . Then pledged we the wine - cup , and fondly I swore From my home and my weeping friends never to part ; My little ones kiss ...
... young ; I heard my own mountain goats bleating aloft , And knew the sweet strain that the corn - reapers sung . Then pledged we the wine - cup , and fondly I swore From my home and my weeping friends never to part ; My little ones kiss ...
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