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... eye. If nothing therein offends them, therefore, it need not, upon the score of indiscreet revelation at least, offend my readers. CHAPTER. I. GIANT. DESPAIR. In a midland county, not as yet scarred by factories, there stands a village ...
... eye. If nothing therein offends them, therefore, it need not, upon the score of indiscreet revelation at least, offend my readers. CHAPTER. I. GIANT. DESPAIR. In a midland county, not as yet scarred by factories, there stands a village ...
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... eyes fixed upon a volume he held in his hand, was a youth of seventeen years old or so, which was about my own age. As he came nearer, I began to see why the deer had mistaken me for him; not, indeed, because he was very handsome (which ...
... eyes fixed upon a volume he held in his hand, was a youth of seventeen years old or so, which was about my own age. As he came nearer, I began to see why the deer had mistaken me for him; not, indeed, because he was very handsome (which ...
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... eyes of a sleepless man cannot avoid; while every tongue about the Hall was ready to tell him of the evil deeds of his forefathers. At first, I thought my young friend's constant allusion to his family was the result of aristocratic ...
... eyes of a sleepless man cannot avoid; while every tongue about the Hall was ready to tell him of the evil deeds of his forefathers. At first, I thought my young friend's constant allusion to his family was the result of aristocratic ...
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... eyes, he could not have exhibited a greater excess of terror. Beside me stood a man of Herculean proportions, who by his dress might have been taken for an undergamekeeper, but for a very massive gold chain which hung from the top ...
... eyes, he could not have exhibited a greater excess of terror. Beside me stood a man of Herculean proportions, who by his dress might have been taken for an undergamekeeper, but for a very massive gold chain which hung from the top ...
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... eye was concerned, "the busy woodpecker made stiller by his sound the inviolable quietness." Lying couched in fern ... eyes, I make an inward picture of some such restingplace; nothing to be seen but the long green feathery stems which ...
... eye was concerned, "the busy woodpecker made stiller by his sound the inviolable quietness." Lying couched in fern ... eyes, I make an inward picture of some such restingplace; nothing to be seen but the long green feathery stems which ...
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