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Page 13
... out their giant shoulders into the lake . We next turned aside in a north - westerly direction , and en- tered a deep glen , lined on each side with lofty mountains , all nearly of the same height , AN IRISH NOVEL . 13.
... out their giant shoulders into the lake . We next turned aside in a north - westerly direction , and en- tered a deep glen , lined on each side with lofty mountains , all nearly of the same height , AN IRISH NOVEL . 13.
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... turning a point , it came full in view - the grand Atlantic , rough even on a summer's day , tremendous now . Like an army of giants rushing from the west to overwhelm the land , came on the mighty waves - terrible , white - crested ...
... turning a point , it came full in view - the grand Atlantic , rough even on a summer's day , tremendous now . Like an army of giants rushing from the west to overwhelm the land , came on the mighty waves - terrible , white - crested ...
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... turned it softly , and we were in an apartment larger than either I had yet seen , with oak panelled walls , and massive shutters of oak to the windows , closely barred across , which ac- counted for the fact that I had seen no light ...
... turned it softly , and we were in an apartment larger than either I had yet seen , with oak panelled walls , and massive shutters of oak to the windows , closely barred across , which ac- counted for the fact that I had seen no light ...
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... turning towards the door I saw her standing there shaking her head at Catherine . " What a queer young lady you are , Miss Catherine , " said she . " You're not a bit better than a baby , sitting there on the hearthrug , eating bread ...
... turning towards the door I saw her standing there shaking her head at Catherine . " What a queer young lady you are , Miss Catherine , " said she . " You're not a bit better than a baby , sitting there on the hearthrug , eating bread ...
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... turned from the dreary , dreary scene , and looked again round the dreary room . The ceiling was remarkably lofty , and quite smooth , except in one part , where four deep lines like cracks - only I never saw cracks so accurately ...
... turned from the dreary , dreary scene , and looked again round the dreary room . The ceiling was remarkably lofty , and quite smooth , except in one part , where four deep lines like cracks - only I never saw cracks so accurately ...
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Page 47 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted!
Page 13 - The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.
Page 85 - And sic a night he taks the road in As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last; The rattling...
Page 240 - twas visible— I saw not, but I felt that it was there. That which I saw was the revealed abode Of Spirits in beatitude: my heart Swelled in my breast—' I have been dead,' I cried,
Page 277 - ... dress that one of the young men — the young savants — was so good as to drop there. Did you see the young savants who work under Gordon's orders ? I thought they were too forlorn ; there is n't one of them you would look at. If you can believe it, there was n't one of them that looked at me ; they took no more notice of me than if I had been the charwoman. They might have shown me some attention, at least, as the wife of the proprietor. What is it that Gordon 's called — is n't there some...
Page 259 - I could not have been asleep for more than an hour, when I was awakened by the peculiar creaking noise which the opening of my door always produced.
Page 1 - SEVERAL years have passed since the events occurred which I am about to relate in this narrative.