Silcote of SilcotesMacmillan, 1869 - 439 pages |
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... half - formed features , the same gently closed eyelids , the same slightly parted mouth , are common alike to high and low , to good and bad , before passion or education has begun to draw those harder and more decided lines which ...
... half - formed features , the same gently closed eyelids , the same slightly parted mouth , are common alike to high and low , to good and bad , before passion or education has begun to draw those harder and more decided lines which ...
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... half - opened hands , bent head , and slightly parted lips , listening with the whole strength of his brave little heart and his keen brain . There was no need for him to open his crazy old door ; the great hole , into which you had to ...
... half - opened hands , bent head , and slightly parted lips , listening with the whole strength of his brave little heart and his keen brain . There was no need for him to open his crazy old door ; the great hole , into which you had to ...
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... half - laced boots , far enough in the rear to avoid any great chance of detection . There were eight of the party before him , holding steadily and silently through the wood in a line , and he knew some of them . Head - keeper Somes ...
... half - laced boots , far enough in the rear to avoid any great chance of detection . There were eight of the party before him , holding steadily and silently through the wood in a line , and he knew some of them . Head - keeper Somes ...
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... half a head taller than his father , and the biggest and broadest man he had ever seen . It was not this fact that attracted him so much it was the man's gait , so springy , so rapid , so restless , and yet so powerful . He carried no ...
... half a head taller than his father , and the biggest and broadest man he had ever seen . It was not this fact that attracted him so much it was the man's gait , so springy , so rapid , so restless , and yet so powerful . He carried no ...
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... half ashamed . " In Boothia Felix , as I understood them , " said the Princess . " I proposed bed to them , but they refused it with scorn . It appears that they are playing a game , and have erected Esquimaux huts in the north gallery ...
... half ashamed . " In Boothia Felix , as I understood them , " said the Princess . " I proposed bed to them , but they refused it with scorn . It appears that they are playing a game , and have erected Esquimaux huts in the north gallery ...
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