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Page 394
... perhaps have swooned away , had he not now recollected his being undrest , and put an End to her Terrors , by desiring her to stay without the Door , till he had thrown some Cloaths over his Back , and was become incapable of shocking ...
... perhaps have swooned away , had he not now recollected his being undrest , and put an End to her Terrors , by desiring her to stay without the Door , till he had thrown some Cloaths over his Back , and was become incapable of shocking ...
Page 800
... perhaps eluding all the statements , lore , and specula- tions of ten thousand years - eluding all possible statements to mortal sense does he yet exist , a definite , vital being , a spirit , an individual - perhaps now wafted in space ...
... perhaps eluding all the statements , lore , and specula- tions of ten thousand years - eluding all possible statements to mortal sense does he yet exist , a definite , vital being , a spirit , an individual - perhaps now wafted in space ...
Page 890
... perhaps , now able to discern things invisible to us - other islands , uncharted , not the Cassiterides . What are they , these other islands , and what do we know of them ? Nothing at all ; indeed , nothing can be known to the ...
... perhaps , now able to discern things invisible to us - other islands , uncharted , not the Cassiterides . What are they , these other islands , and what do we know of them ? Nothing at all ; indeed , nothing can be known to the ...
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