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... Father , Son , and Holy Ghost , the minister slowly repeating thereafter those beautiful words of Holy Writ , " A father of the fatherless is God in his holy habitation , " - as if the baptism of that bereaved one had been a solemn ...
... Father , Son , and Holy Ghost , the minister slowly repeating thereafter those beautiful words of Holy Writ , " A father of the fatherless is God in his holy habitation , " - as if the baptism of that bereaved one had been a solemn ...
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... father's eye had never beheld her , and her baptismal cup had rested on her mother's coffin . She was small of stature , beyond the wont of children of her age , and moulded with a fine waxen delicacy that won admiration from all eyes ...
... father's eye had never beheld her , and her baptismal cup had rested on her mother's coffin . She was small of stature , beyond the wont of children of her age , and moulded with a fine waxen delicacy that won admiration from all eyes ...
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... father's joiner's bench , and with which she would make long extemporaneous tresses , so that they might play at being mermaids , like those that she had heard her father tell about in some of his sea - stories . " Now , railly , Sally ...
... father's joiner's bench , and with which she would make long extemporaneous tresses , so that they might play at being mermaids , like those that she had heard her father tell about in some of his sea - stories . " Now , railly , Sally ...
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... fathers called " Complaint , " and the cracked , wavering voices of the women , with the deep , rough bass of the old sea - captain , rose in the uproar of the storm with a ghostly , strange wildness , like the scream of the curlew or ...
... fathers called " Complaint , " and the cracked , wavering voices of the women , with the deep , rough bass of the old sea - captain , rose in the uproar of the storm with a ghostly , strange wildness , like the scream of the curlew or ...
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... father singing her to sleep , as he often did , - with a somewhat hoarse voice truly , but with ever an undertone of protecting love . But toward daybreak , there came very clear and bright into her childish mind a dream , having that ...
... father singing her to sleep , as he often did , - with a somewhat hoarse voice truly , but with ever an undertone of protecting love . But toward daybreak , there came very clear and bright into her childish mind a dream , having that ...
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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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