Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose, Volume 1Scott, Foresman, 1910 - English literature |
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... arms outspread o'er the ocean - stream , measured the sea - ways , smote with your hands , o'er the main glided . With winter's fury the ocean - waves boiled ; for a sennight ye toiled on the water's domain . He conquered thee swimming ...
... arms outspread o'er the ocean - stream , measured the sea - ways , smote with your hands , o'er the main glided . With winter's fury the ocean - waves boiled ; for a sennight ye toiled on the water's domain . He conquered thee swimming ...
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... arm rested . Soon as the criminal realized that in no other man of middle - earth , of the world's regions , had he found 750 a stronger hand - grip , his mind grew fearful . Yet not for that could he sooner escape . He was bent on ...
... arm rested . Soon as the criminal realized that in no other man of middle - earth , of the world's regions , had he found 750 a stronger hand - grip , his mind grew fearful . Yet not for that could he sooner escape . He was bent on ...
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... arm and shoulder ; yet not thereby did the wretched creature comfort obtain ; nor will he , crime - doer , the longer live with sins oppressed . For pain has him in its grip compelling straitly clasped , 970 in its deadly bonds ; there ...
... arm and shoulder ; yet not thereby did the wretched creature comfort obtain ; nor will he , crime - doer , the longer live with sins oppressed . For pain has him in its grip compelling straitly clasped , 970 in its deadly bonds ; there ...
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... arms a victorious falchion , an old jotun - sword , of edges doughty , 1580 when he Hrothgar ' s hearth - companions slew in their rest , sleeping devoured fifteen men of the folk of the Danes , and as many others conveyed away ...
... arms a victorious falchion , an old jotun - sword , of edges doughty , 1580 when he Hrothgar ' s hearth - companions slew in their rest , sleeping devoured fifteen men of the folk of the Danes , and as many others conveyed away ...
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... arms . Besides , they built towers on the sea - coast to the southward , at proper dis- tances , where their ships were , because there also the irruptions of the barbarians were ap- prehended , and so took leave of their friends ...
... arms . Besides , they built towers on the sea - coast to the southward , at proper dis- tances , where their ships were , because there also the irruptions of the barbarians were ap- prehended , and so took leave of their friends ...
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