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Sometimes I'm very hot , and sometimes warm , Sometimes again I'm cool , yet feel no harm . Part bird , part beast , and vegetable part , Cut , slash'd , and wounded yet I feel no smart . I have a skin , which though but thin and ...
Sometimes I'm very hot , and sometimes warm , Sometimes again I'm cool , yet feel no harm . Part bird , part beast , and vegetable part , Cut , slash'd , and wounded yet I feel no smart . I have a skin , which though but thin and ...
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Of course , he always wore a top - hat - a beaver hat as it was then called , before silk hats were invented — the only other headgear being sometimes a straw hat for use in the garden in summer . In character he was quiet and even ...
Of course , he always wore a top - hat - a beaver hat as it was then called , before silk hats were invented — the only other headgear being sometimes a straw hat for use in the garden in summer . In character he was quiet and even ...
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Here , occasionally , the rock was blasted , and sometimes we had the fearful delight of watching the explosion from a safe distance , and seeing a cloud of the smaller stones shoot up into the air . At some earlier period very large ...
Here , occasionally , the rock was blasted , and sometimes we had the fearful delight of watching the explosion from a safe distance , and seeing a cloud of the smaller stones shoot up into the air . At some earlier period very large ...
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I particularly remember one day his pointing out to the family that the reflection of some hills in the river opposite us was sometimes visible and sometimes not , though on both occasions in equally calm and clear weather .
I particularly remember one day his pointing out to the family that the reflection of some hills in the river opposite us was sometimes visible and sometimes not , though on both occasions in equally calm and clear weather .
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He was a cousin of my mother's by marriage , and we children sometimes went to tea at his house , and then , as a great treat , were shown all over the mill with all its strange wheels and whirling millstones , its queer little pockets ...
He was a cousin of my mother's by marriage , and we children sometimes went to tea at his house , and then , as a great treat , were shown all over the mill with all its strange wheels and whirling millstones , its queer little pockets ...
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