Queen MabD. Appleton, 1864 - 476 pages |
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... lip , that betrayed temper as well as weakness . His high , broad forehead had intellectual claims , but it was both feeble and haughty . His look , his smile , offered the same contradictions . There was shrewdness in the one , and ...
... lip , that betrayed temper as well as weakness . His high , broad forehead had intellectual claims , but it was both feeble and haughty . His look , his smile , offered the same contradictions . There was shrewdness in the one , and ...
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... lips , but hospitality checked it , and it subsided into a sort of impatient and half - muttered growl . " Not a hundred ! -well , then , five hundred , say five hundred , " facetiously added Captain George . " You had better not ...
... lips , but hospitality checked it , and it subsided into a sort of impatient and half - muttered growl . " Not a hundred ! -well , then , five hundred , say five hundred , " facetiously added Captain George . " You had better not ...
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... lips of the Venus of Milo . She had also bestowed on her the noble neck , the stately figure of that immortal image of woman's majestic loveliness ; and though time and disease had done their work , though pain had contracted the brow ...
... lips of the Venus of Milo . She had also bestowed on her the noble neck , the stately figure of that immortal image of woman's majestic loveliness ; and though time and disease had done their work , though pain had contracted the brow ...
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... lips . She gazed at the three boys ; she embraced the youngest first , then William , then Robert . Then she looked ... lip , his vacillating look , and the irritable cast of his features , would have warned away a wiser woman . Alicia ...
... lips . She gazed at the three boys ; she embraced the youngest first , then William , then Robert . Then she looked ... lip , his vacillating look , and the irritable cast of his features , would have warned away a wiser woman . Alicia ...
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... lips in a foolish , exulting , and de- cidedly vulgar fashion , which was habitual to him . " And I once loved that man , " thought Alicia , turning her head away . " I daresay you have had enough of me , my dear , " submis- sively said ...
... lips in a foolish , exulting , and de- cidedly vulgar fashion , which was habitual to him . " And I once loved that man , " thought Alicia , turning her head away . " I daresay you have had enough of me , my dear , " submis- sively said ...
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Page 278 - He began walking up and down the room, with his hands in his pockets, talking aloud, and feeling with his old irritated fingers the two watches which he wore in his two fobs.