The Ship-dwellers: A Story of a Happy CruiseHarper and brothers, 1910 - 393 pages |
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... seemed ever further and still further ahead . Then all at once , there , just within reach , it lay . There was no reason why , in some measure at least , I should not follow the track of those old first " In- nocents Abroad . " Of ...
... seemed ever further and still further ahead . Then all at once , there , just within reach , it lay . There was no reason why , in some measure at least , I should not follow the track of those old first " In- nocents Abroad . " Of ...
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... seemed all to be talking and laughing at once or paw- ing over mail and packages heaped upon the cabin table . I didn't feel like laughing and talking , and I wasn't interested in the mail . Almost everybody in the world that meant ...
... seemed all to be talking and laughing at once or paw- ing over mail and packages heaped upon the cabin table . I didn't feel like laughing and talking , and I wasn't interested in the mail . Almost everybody in the world that meant ...
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... seemed sud- denly very far away . We had become a little world all to ourselves - most of us strangers to one another , but thrown in a narrow compass here and likely to remain associates for weeks , even months . What a big , jolly ...
... seemed sud- denly very far away . We had become a little world all to ourselves - most of us strangers to one another , but thrown in a narrow compass here and likely to remain associates for weeks , even months . What a big , jolly ...
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... seemed really to have begun now , and walking leisurely around the promenade - deck one could get a fair impression of our company and cast the horoscope . They were a fair average of Americans , on the whole , with a heavy percentage ...
... seemed really to have begun now , and walking leisurely around the promenade - deck one could get a fair impression of our company and cast the horoscope . They were a fair average of Americans , on the whole , with a heavy percentage ...
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... seemed to sweep their decks , but their lines varied not a point and the separating distances remained unchanged . So per- fect was the alignment that each column became a single vessel when they had left us behind . It was over , all ...
... seemed to sweep their decks , but their lines varied not a point and the separating distances remained unchanged . So per- fect was the alignment that each column became a single vessel when they had left us behind . It was over , all ...
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Page 136 - Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. 32 IT And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
Page 135 - Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Page 31 - Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and, sitting well in order, smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
Page 135 - Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say ? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods : because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
Page 99 - And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.
Page 300 - For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
Page 135 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Page 289 - Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest ; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about : for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days.
Page 300 - Reader. Because of the Temple which is destroyed, Because of the walls which are broken down, Because of our greatness which is departed, Because of the precious stones of the Temple ground to powder, Because of our priests who have erred and gone astray, Because of our kings who have contemned God — People. We sit alone and weep.
Page 226 - And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.