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... cheeks , and a face deeply lined with the furrows of shrewd thought and anxious care , were points of the portrait ... cheek was white and bloodless as a snowberry , though with the clear and perfect oval of good health ; the mouth ...
... cheeks , and a face deeply lined with the furrows of shrewd thought and anxious care , were points of the portrait ... cheek was white and bloodless as a snowberry , though with the clear and perfect oval of good health ; the mouth ...
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... cheek , her lips parted , and her eyes dilated with a wide , bright expression ; her breathing came in thick gasps , but she said nothing . The old fisherman stood up in the wagon , his coarse , butternut - colored coat - flaps ...
... cheek , her lips parted , and her eyes dilated with a wide , bright expression ; her breathing came in thick gasps , but she said nothing . The old fisherman stood up in the wagon , his coarse , butternut - colored coat - flaps ...
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... cheek as white as wintry snow , lies the same face over which passed the shadow of death when that ill- fated ship went down . This woman was wife to him who lies below , and within the hour has been made mother to a frail little human ...
... cheek as white as wintry snow , lies the same face over which passed the shadow of death when that ill- fated ship went down . This woman was wife to him who lies below , and within the hour has been made mother to a frail little human ...
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... cheeks wet with tears , but some- thing sublime and immortal shining upward through his blue eyes ; and at the last verse he came forward involuntarily , and stood by his dead , and his voice rose over all the others as he sung ...
... cheeks wet with tears , but some- thing sublime and immortal shining upward through his blue eyes ; and at the last verse he came forward involuntarily , and stood by his dead , and his voice rose over all the others as he sung ...
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... cheek and my night - gown , poor little thing ! This ' ere's a baby that won't get along without its mother . What Mis ' Pennel ' s a - goin ' to do with it when we is gone , I'm sure I don't know . It comes kind o ' hard on old people ...
... cheek and my night - gown , poor little thing ! This ' ere's a baby that won't get along without its mother . What Mis ' Pennel ' s a - goin ' to do with it when we is gone , I'm sure I don't know . It comes kind o ' hard on old people ...
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The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine (Classic Reprint) Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe No preview available - 2015 |
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