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Good thing she lian's house . He remembered people never had any kids . She ' s a little who then lived along the street , and a nervous and queer ; has lost her looks a list of names began running through good deal . ” his head .
Good thing she lian's house . He remembered people never had any kids . She ' s a little who then lived along the street , and a nervous and queer ; has lost her looks a list of names began running through good deal . ” his head .
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Alf had were dancing , John turned his head awakened . When they were parting , and saw across the road and between he leaned out of the car and looked the trees that lined its banks the stars closely at John .
Alf had were dancing , John turned his head awakened . When they were parting , and saw across the road and between he leaned out of the car and looked the trees that lined its banks the stars closely at John .
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“ Is it Virginio's wed- abstracted head a dozen rainbows ding - night ? ” seemed revolving in vertiginous arcs : " That is for your Eminence to say , colors of sun , of harvest moon , of the chevalier replied with courtly comet's tail ...
“ Is it Virginio's wed- abstracted head a dozen rainbows ding - night ? ” seemed revolving in vertiginous arcs : " That is for your Eminence to say , colors of sun , of harvest moon , of the chevalier replied with courtly comet's tail ...
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Casting a ceeding to the church of Saint John triumphant glance at Carlo Gozzi , and Saint Paul , allow Peter to pro- Chastelneuf bowed his head in double nounce the blessing of holy church humility to higher powers . upon their union .
Casting a ceeding to the church of Saint John triumphant glance at Carlo Gozzi , and Saint Paul , allow Peter to pro- Chastelneuf bowed his head in double nounce the blessing of holy church humility to higher powers . upon their union .
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But cloak , came softly into the room ; he Rosalba was pure gold from head to entered like the twilight , and Rosalba foot ; she was brighter than the swords was quenched within his arms . of light . A chaplet of golden leaves confined ...
But cloak , came softly into the room ; he Rosalba was pure gold from head to entered like the twilight , and Rosalba foot ; she was brighter than the swords was quenched within his arms . of light . A chaplet of golden leaves confined ...
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Page 338 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Page 437 - Hurrah ! hurrah for Sheridan ! Hurrah! hurrah for horse and man ! And when their statues are placed on high, Under the dome of the Union sky, The American soldier's Temple of Fame, — There with the glorious General's name, Be it said, in letters both bold and bright, " Here is the steed that saved the day By carrying Sheridan into the fight, From Winchester, twenty miles away!
Page 475 - Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
Page 472 - tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.
Page 471 - But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps, at mid-day, in the fairest weather, with one half-throttled shriek you drop through that transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise for ever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists!
Page 625 - We were very tired, we were very merry — We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
Page 471 - There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God. But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror.
Page 620 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 696 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 473 - Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself.