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... head- ty of provisions , lots of ammunition , swords , bowie shawls , in place of the soft twists of wool or THE RIVER JORDAN AND THE DEAD SEA . 5 tool. the volume , and continually starts up in such de- licious phrases as- " We Yankee ...
... head- ty of provisions , lots of ammunition , swords , bowie shawls , in place of the soft twists of wool or THE RIVER JORDAN AND THE DEAD SEA . 5 tool. the volume , and continually starts up in such de- licious phrases as- " We Yankee ...
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... head of Wady Kerak is more than a thousand feet higher than the head of Wady Ghu- weir . Most of the ravines , too - as reference to the map will show - have a southward inclination near their outlets ; that of Zerka Main or Callirohoe ...
... head of Wady Kerak is more than a thousand feet higher than the head of Wady Ghu- weir . Most of the ravines , too - as reference to the map will show - have a southward inclination near their outlets ; that of Zerka Main or Callirohoe ...
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... head- ty of provisions , lots of ammunition , swords , bowie shawls , in place of the soft twists of wool or “ prostration consequent on the severe privations | Lieutenant Lynch. knife , pistols , Colt's revolvers , and a blunderbuss ...
... head- ty of provisions , lots of ammunition , swords , bowie shawls , in place of the soft twists of wool or “ prostration consequent on the severe privations | Lieutenant Lynch. knife , pistols , Colt's revolvers , and a blunderbuss ...
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... head of Wady Kerak is more than a thousand feet higher than the head of Wady Ghu- weir . Most of the ravines , too - as reference to the map will show - have a southward inclination near their outlets ; that of Zerka Main or Callirohoe ...
... head of Wady Kerak is more than a thousand feet higher than the head of Wady Ghu- weir . Most of the ravines , too - as reference to the map will show - have a southward inclination near their outlets ; that of Zerka Main or Callirohoe ...
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... head , and bade her not be such a little goose ; neither did he omit to stroke Ponto , as he passed out for the second time . Poor Clara , with swollen eyes and aching forehead , be- took herself , work in hand , to her mother's bed ...
... head , and bade her not be such a little goose ; neither did he omit to stroke Ponto , as he passed out for the second time . Poor Clara , with swollen eyes and aching forehead , be- took herself , work in hand , to her mother's bed ...
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Page 371 - Hear the loud alarum bells — Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune ! In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Page 398 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Page 393 - At the same time, let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 371 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows...
Page 399 - A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard, And mine was thankful till my eyes Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery.
Page 378 - Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals.
Page 399 - I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before, I saw the glimmer of the...
Page 139 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 378 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside— Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Page 398 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...